In my personal experience, I had an older half-brother who sexually abused me and some of my sisters, and even though his mother found out, I was threatened as a 5-year-old little girl. And there were also sexual violations going on. My father's first wife did not grow up around polygamy, and the story goes that she at first welcomed my mother into the family but quickly turned to extreme jealousy, and there was a tremendous amount of physical abuse. Musser told her story to NPR's Jacki Lyden. Musser tells the harrowing story of her childhood, her marriage, and her eventual escape in her book, The Witness Wore Red: The 19th Wife Who Brought Polygamous Cult Leaders to Justice. Following his death, Musser made the terrifying decision to escape from the church into an outside world she had been taught to fear. When she was just 19 years old, she was forced to marry the 85-year-old Rulon. Musser grew up in the FLDS church, under the control of Warren Jeffs and his father, Rulon. The star witness in Jeffs' trial was a young woman named Rebecca Musser. The church's leader, Warren Jeffs, was sentenced to life plus 20 years behind bars for sexually assaulting children. Police raided an FLDS compound in Texas where they found hundreds of women and girls. In 2007, a breakaway extremist offshoot of the Mormon Church called the Fundamentalist Church of the Latter Day Saints made national news.
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