The story of the FLDS church

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He had 78 wives, several of whom were underage, at the time of his arrest. Today, it is said that he still runs his cult from prison.   This is the shocking story of the Fundamentalist Church of Latter-Day Saints, FLDS.

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00:00Warren started marrying his own mothers after Owen died.

00:03I mean, who marries your mom?

00:16My mom woke me up and says,

00:17hurry, we gotta get you dressed, you have an appointment with the prophet.

00:20When he asked me to marry him at 16,

00:22I honestly believe that that's what God wanted.

00:30The more wives, the more children you have, the higher in heaven you'll be.

01:00Warren Jeffs took over this religion and turned it into money and power.

01:29Money and power and sex.

01:36After Rulon died, Warren wanted me to marry him like the other ladies had.

01:49Evil powers gain control over us when we are having fun, when we relax our prayers.

01:57We were taught to always be covered from our neck to our ankles

02:03and to have our hair combed up, not hanging.

02:06And we don't cut our hair.

02:08We have computers, but they're not, we don't have any internet.

02:13No TVs, you couldn't travel, you couldn't be educated.

02:17And he'd always bring in some sort of revelation of why you couldn't do it.

02:28One day, my name was brought up and I was to be married.

02:32I was 14.

02:58They asked me to leave because I had a girlfriend.

03:01When you get kicked out, they don't follow you.

03:04What you lived for 50 years is completely ripped apart.

03:27I wanted at least two years to grow up.

03:46And then when I later found out who I was to be married to, who was my cousin,

03:52that really upset me.

03:57The criminal charges allege that Mr. Jeffs encouraged, commanded, aided, abetted another to have sexual intercourse

04:18with a victim between the ages of 14 and 18 without her consent.

04:58This is the world's first look inside the FLDS temple in El Dorado, Texas.

05:06In this photo, crime scene technicians are seen examining a bed found in the temple,

05:11a bed investigators say may have been used to consummate marriages between adult men and underage girls.

05:28How many kids do you think your father has molested?

05:32I don't know, sometimes I think 10, 20.

05:36I hope it's not more than that.

05:51We love you.

05:53I love all of you.

05:58You don't fight the priesthood, you don't fight the prophet.

06:01But it was so much bigger than just Warren and me.

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