At the age of 18, she was forced into an arranged marriage with a man 32 years her senior who already had three other wives. " This is a modern day memoir of Carolyn Jessop's life. Overall Performance: Narration Rating: Story Rating:.The hurdles Carolyn had to overcome are unimaginable to the average person leading a "regular" life where such a thing as "free-will" exists and where you are not condemned for hugging and kissing your own children.īy the end of the book, you just want Carolyn to have a "happy ever after" life with her family.
Without reservations, I recommend this book to anyone with insurmountable problems, wondering how they could possibly transcend their situation. I wasn't prepared for how compelling it would be and couldn't tear myself away from it! Fortunately, being an audio book, it meant I could get on with chores while having the story read to me. Having read about Carolyn Jessop and having watched a number of YouTube videos featuring her lectures and interviews, I finally took the plunge and read "Escape". "As someone who has ditched all religions, I continue to be fascinated by the power of religious indoctrination, and how it can infect even seemingly intelligent individuals and cause them to fall prey to absurdities. 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. 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. 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.
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. 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.
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