FLDS teen disputes mom's book

The Salt Lake Tribune ^ | January 27, 2009 | Brooke Adams

[Saundra Duffy]

Yearning For Zion Ranch, Texas » Betty Jane Jessop's favorite phrase: "Good grief!"

That's what Betty utters as she reads the new epilogue in her mother's best-selling book, Escape . In those pages, Carolyn Jessop describes her daughter's return to the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, calling her brainwashed.

"It just makes me want to laugh," said Betty, 19, shaking her head.

Besides Carolyn herself, the character in Escape that most intrigues readers is Betty -- the second of Carolyn's eight children with FLDS bishop Merril Jessop.

Why, they ask, did Betty return to the sect after four years in mainstream society? And: Is she OK?

Soon they may be able to read Betty's answer to those questions. Since April, the teenager has been working on a book about her experiences, aided by older sister Maggie Jessop.

[metmom]

Why wouldn’t the YFZ ranch & the FLDS just be honest from the start?

Out of character for them, I guess.

And then we're supposed to believe them over people *with an axe to grind*?

I have some land in FL to sell someone.

[berdie]

The area has a certain austere beauty, no doubt about it.

[brytlea]

Well, I’m from NM so I think it’s quite lush! ;)

[pandoraou812]

I know if a hunting retreat turned into a place where there was a temple, a waste treatment facility, a 29,000-square-foot house (for Warren Jeffs),a meeting house, and several large log and concrete homes. Plus generators, gardens, a grain silo, and a large stone quarry & who knows what else I wouldn't be a happy neighbor. Plus the addition of 500 people ( give or take) that were my new neighbors I would be wondering how I wasn't made aware of it before it happened.

According to preliminary tax assessments, about $3 million worth of buildings have been built. The sect has been fined over $34,000 for environmental violations in connection with buildings on the ranch, mainly due to its failure to obtain the required permits for its cement-mixing operations.

So they didn't even do things the legal way.

[Colofornian]

But in the U.S. there is said to be as many 300,000 teenage prostitutes (mostly female it seems) with an average age of 14. 14 years old as an average! Who are their clients? Teenage boys? I can guess mostly men several years older than the teenagers. But does this brutal sexual exploitation of children stir the same debates and heated emotions as the stories about the FLDS?

Ummm...could it just possibly be because we don't find such a rousing defense of pedophiles anywhere else -- except when LDS and others come to the defense of fLDS???

[UCANSEE2]

But the authorities are still trying to destroy the FLDS and steal their land. My husband said right from the get-go it was really all about the land.

Gee. Why did you wait so long to tell anyone about this?

; )

[UCANSEE2]

Your on a roll tonight.

: )

[count-your-change]

Could be. Could be. When “To Catch A Predator” ran on televising there were defenders of the pedophiles posting about innocent til proven guilty and entrapment even though the men showing at all was a crime.

An objection the FLDS compound situation is that Christians are obligated to maintain a good moral reputation in the community. And humans being what they are, putting them in a situation where immorality is likely to occur seems rather foolish to me.

And to defend it afterward worse.

[P-Marlowe]

But the authorities are still trying to destroy the FLDS and steal their land. My husband said right from the get-go it was really all about the land.

Do all of his wives agree with him?

[Tennessee Nana]

Gee, Saundra,

What’s more important to you as an American...

The Constitution or your husbands opinion ???

One moment you are sharing what your husband has to say on a subject as though he was the end all authority...

As in # 29 - “My husband said right from the get-go it was really all about the land.”

The next you are championing the COTUS and will accept no differing opinion..

As in # 23 - “Oh, I think she prefers to live in America where the Constitution is supposed to protect her.”

Last April when the law finally caught up with this hive of mormon pedophiles, you strongly favored the letter of the law, the Constitution...

And in every thread on the fLDS that you posted, you argued for the rights of the fLDS under the COTUS...

And yet you appeared to deny yourself 1st Amendment rights of free speech by constantly uttering only your husbands thoughts as though they were ex cathedra...

Which is it ???

If your husband is a FReeper lets hear from him direct...

Otherwise please give us the thoughts and knowledge of SD on the subject..

[TigersEye]

BTW, Have you noticed that tuna cans contain less and less tuna every year?

I sure have and it's making me mad.

Pretty soon when you empty all the water out, all you will have left is... can.

Well, there's your problem. Get tuna in oil and you will have tuna flavored oil. Oil has nutritional value. ;^)

[pandoraou812]

Did you try the tuna in the pouch thing yet? Maybe that has more tuna in it. I only eat fresh tuna so I know nothing about canned or pouched tuna. lmao

[TigersEye]

I haven’t tried it. It’s more expensive I’m sure. Tuna in a pouch would be too much like cat food. lol

[pandoraou812]

I just never thought about the FLDS people eating tuna for some reason. Isn’t that odd?

[Maximilian]

Okay. Now the real story comes out.

Carolyn Jessop is a typical single mom — completely incapable of running her own life, busily destroying the lives and the souls of her children — who feels a compulsion to vent her rage against all those who told her what she was doing was wrong.

The woman who started this whole mess, the woman who went around Texas and elsewhere trying to fan the flames of hysteria, the woman who single-handedly tried to ignite another Waco, the woman who was egging on the deluded Obama delegate who made the hoax call the Texas police, that woman could not even get her own children out of bed and to school in the morning. She dumped all the radioactive fallout from her own bad decisions on her teenage daughter. She is a complete failure as a person, but she’s going to start a crusade.

Doesn’t this sound exactly like every other evil feminist member of NOW and NARAL? She has failed as a wife and a mother, she has crushed the life out of her children, but she will justify herself in her own eyes by circulating petitions to save the baby seals? Is there anyone who hasn’t met women just like this?

What boggles my mind is how can there be people who call themselves “conservatives” who fall for this kind of propaganda. I guess it comes from watching television.

[Maximilian]

I just remembered what the FLDS call it! Bleeding the Beast! Any thoughts about that? I resent it & so do many people.

That has been proven to be a complete hoax. You resent something that doesn't exist.

Facts don't fit claims of FLDS welfare fraud http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2159063/posts

[Maximilian]

Then why do you defend them? I am honestly scratching my head.

Why do you defend the state coming into homes and taking away more than 400 children? I am honestly tearing my hair out when I think that so-called "conservatives" think it's A-okay to send tanks into someone's homes and take nearly 500 children off into "foster homes."

This is what it was always about. Today's news item confirms that the state found some whack-job single mother to be the spokesperson for creating enough hysteria to kidnap hundreds and hundreds of children.

Those could be my children next -- or yours. And you support it. That's what has me scratching my head.

[Elsie]

Dog gone....

At first read I saw POOCH!

[brytlea]

Do YOU defend the practices of the FLDS?

[brytlea]

Wow, after reading your screed the first thought that came to my mind is, do you know her personally, and if not, on what are you basing your opinion??