She became the first woman ever granted full custody of her children in a contested suit involving the FLDS, and in 2006, her reports to the Utah attorney general on church abuses formed a crucial part of the case that led to the arrest of its notorious leader, Warren Jeffs. Against this background, Carolyn Jessop’s flight takes on an extraordinary, inspiring power.

Escape exposes a world tantamount to a prison camp, created by religious fanatics. But in 2003, Carolyn chose freedom over fear and fled her home with her eight children. Over the next fifteen years, Carolyn had eight children and withstood her husband’s psychological abuse and the watchful eyes of his other wives, who were locked in a constant battle for supremacy.Ĭarolyn was miserable for years and wanted out, but she knew that if she tried to leave and got caught, her children would be taken away from her. Escape tells the true story of Carolyn Jessop, who after years of being in a forced polygamous marriage escaped from the Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day. No woman in the country had ever escaped from the FLDS and managed to get her children out, too. But arranged plural marriages were an integral part of Carolyn’s heritage: She was born into and raised in the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS), the radical offshoot of the Mormon Church. In 2003, Carolyn chose freedom over fear and fled her home with her eight children. Carolyn was miserable for years and wanted out, but she knew that if she tried to leave and got caught, her children would be taken away from her. Aged eighteen, she was forced to marry a man. After 17 years in the abusive, bigamist marriage. When she was eighteen years old, Carolyn Jessop was coerced into an arranged marriage with a total stranger: a man thirty-two years her senior. Carolyn Jessop was born into a sect in Utah known as the Fundamentalist Church of the Latter Day Saints. 32K views 14 years ago At age 18, Carolyn Jessop was the fourth wife of a man more than three times her age and had eight children in 12 years.

Escape by Carolyn Jessop