Tabernacles Pentecost—Still Hope

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If you listened to the Remnant Bride Radio message, “Tabernacles Pentecost, 2009, Report,” you know that I, and we, will wait out yet another forty-nine days in hopes of the fulfillment of Tabernacles Pentecost.  In this written report, we will more fully assess this possibility, adding some things that are most interesting and indeed give […]

Escape From Flora Jessop: The Story of Val and Laurene Jessop, part 2

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Photo: Val and Laurene Jessop The Escape By October, 2005, Laurene had taken all she could of Flora. “Flora lied to me too many times during the custody battle,” stated Laurene. “I knew by then what kind of person she was, but I had to hold on until the custody hearings were over. After that, […]

Escape From Flora Jessop: The Story of Val and Laurene Jessop, part 1

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Photo: Val and Laurene Jessop On July 26, 1953, soon-three-year-old Val Jessop lay asleep in his bed in the family’s cozy two-room shack in Short Creek, Arizona, on the Utah border. This sparse home was shared by his mother, older brother, and three sisters. But for the adults in this little fundamentalist Mormon community, sleeping […]

Comments From Article on Flora Jessop

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Photo: Flora Jessop Following are some of the replies I received from the article, “Flora Jessop: The Troubled Woman Who Cost Texas $14 Million, and Hundreds of Innocent People Their Peace and Safety.” Each of these echo the very things this report reveals—a people whom, for numerous reasons, I have been privileged to communicate with. […]

Flora Jessop: The Troubled Woman Who Cost Texas $14 Million, and Hundreds of Innocent People Their Peace and Safety, Part 3

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Photo: Flora Jessop The Yearning For Zion Raid It’s one thing to stand under a high-wire and try to catch those who might fall, and quite another to climb the pole and cut the wire. If Flora’s purpose is to help those who want to leave the FLDS, and some indeed leave and have the […]

Flora Jessop: The Troubled Woman Who Cost Texas $14 Million, and Hundreds of Innocent People Their Peace and Safety, Part 2

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Photo: Flora Jessop “Ruby is a Hostage” Let’s now move forward to 2001 when Flora began to dramatically enhance her public slander of the FLDS, becoming its chief persecutor. Like the written account from Martha and the interview with Phil, what you are about to read is the first ever account of actual events that […]

Flora Jessop: The Troubled Woman Who Cost Texas $14 Million, and Hundreds of Innocent People Their Peace and Safety, Part 1

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Photo: Flora Jessop Flora Jessop, the outspoken media favorite and determined critic of the Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints (FLDS), has had the advantage and luxury of accruing audiences who want to believe her or are understandably uninformed about Flora’s real life and the FLDS church itself. Therefore, she has been able to say what she […]

CPS Gets a Much-Needed Black Eye in Texas

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As a Texas-born, Texas-reared, Texas-graduate man who saw his five children born in Texas as well, I have an affinity for the lone-star state. But I must say, while the assassination of JFK was an embarrassment, and the tragic handling of the Waco Branch Davidian standoff was both sad and shameful, what Texas and Child […]

So, Fifty Percent of YFZ Incarcerated Teens Have Babies

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Photo: YFZ mother and child According to Child Protective Services (CPS), of the supposed 53 girls between the ages of 14 and 17 who at gunpoint were forced from their homes at Yearning For Zion Ranch, 31 either have children or are pregnant. Rod Parker, attorney for the FLDS families, doubts those numbers. “I do […]

The Yearning For Zion Hearings: Duplicity in Action

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Photo: CPS investigator Angie Voss At the outset of this entire debacle surrounding the raid of the Yearning For Zion FLDS community, Child Protective Services (CPS) spokeswoman Marleigh Meisner stated, “This is about children who are at imminent risk of harm, children that we believe have been abused and neglected.” This was only the beginning […]

Eldorado Yearning For Zion women experience the most feared words ever spoken: ‘Your children are ours,’ CPS

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Photo: Marie, mother of three boys “The death penalty of family law cases.” This is how the events unfolding for 416 children and their now-separated mothers were described as the State of Texas and Child Protective Services (CPS) mount their largest single attack ever on families. After being forcibly removed from their homes at gunpoint […]

The Eldorado Polygamist Compound Hypocrisy

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Photo: Armed raid of YFZ Ranch You can always know when someone is doing wrong when they have to exaggerate the facts in order to justify their actions, e.g., Waco, Texas, 1993. When you read the accounts of what is taking place surrounding the Yearning For Zion Ranch near Eldorado, Texas, reporters cannot call it […]