Even the few highly educated people there . _____, --Petri Dishes of the Genetically-Destructive Effects of Mormon-Driven Polygamy: "Modern"-day Utah and Cross-Border Towns. "You have to either accept" the responsibility of caring for so many children with major healthcare needs "or let it destroy you," says this man, whose wife recently suffered a stroke. In the l950s, research doctors thought we were one of the few families in the world with this form of nephritis, known as Alports syndrome. They are lucky if they can even move their head and eyes a little bit.'. But that's like spitting in the ocean.'. ', "The ultimate goal of the breeding program, Wyler says, is to create the perfect race. Kollene's father, John Daniel Kingston has 14 wives, and she is the fifth of her mother Shirley Hansen's 12 children. [O]ver the first 50 years of Mormonism, a highly inbred hierarchy became even more inbred through their illegal marriage and childbirth practices. . mating in a way that increases genetic diseases, that the public ends up supporting, it becomes a matter of public interest.'. Sisters married the same man in polygamous celestial weddings; brothers from one family married sisters from another (meaning their kids are double cousins). my question is: How come MORmON god does not get on board with His own programs? I'm driving around Short Creek with Alyssawho is in Boise, Idaho, where she is a college sophomorepiped in through the bluetooth-enabled speakerphone in the rental car I'd picked in Las Vegas the previous night. died of multiple sclerosis, also leaving a family of small children behind. LeBaron Jr. has been accused by three of his own sons, who purport to have DNA evidence obtained by saliva samples, of fathering four children with his own biological daughter. "Tarby says he quickly realized he was dealing with a very unusual condition that he could not diagnose. "Dr. Tarby, who routinely treats fumarase deficiency children at a state-funded clinic in Flagstaff, says, 'They are funny-looking kids [with] biggish heads and coarse, thick features.' . . During a recent interview with the Intelligence Report, Jessica Kingston, a former member of the secretive, Salt Lake City-based cult and a star of the A&E reality series "Escaping Polygamy," remembered, when she was 12, her Sunday school teacher coming into class with a . We pass the house she grew up in with her mother, three eldest brothers, and father before he was kicked out of the cult. July 1, 2020. living in Colorado City and Hildale are blood descendants of the Barlows and the Jessops, says Benjamin Bistline, a lifelong resident of the area who has published a book . . . . 'They think it is a test from God,' says Wyler, who was born and raised in the FLDS before he was booted out. Her subject at the convention was mormon child sexual abuse. [I]t appears that Joseph Smith Jessop and his first wife also passed on the rare genetic disorder fumarase deficiency. [T]he 'Salt Lake Tribune' . "In this isolated religious society north of the Grand Canyon, few secrets have been more closely guarded than the presence of fumarase deficiency. . A fifth child, they say, was fathered by their eldest brother Wayne LeBaron, (who was married to Dawna Black Bistline's cousin at the time of this child's allegedly incestuous conception). . "Tarby says most of the children 'can say at least a word or two,' but that all of them 'have severe mental retardation' with IQs of less than 25. In 2011, Jeffs was sentenced to life in prison, plus 20 years. Mormons, however, take care to denounce the FLDS "polygs" as having absolutely no relation to their Latter Day Saints. Re: Polygamy's Patriarchy-Poisoned Bloodline: The Genetic Catastrophe That Has Sprung from Joseph Smith's "Divine" Breeding Program of Mormon Mutation . "Tarby says members of the community made it clear that neither choice was acceptable. October 15, 2002: "There will be a viewing at father's house at 3p.m. There are also graves lacking any dates whatsoever. "What was going on in my Utah pioneer family? . The Twelve Apostles of Mormonism then acted to increase this familial relationship by marrying other relatives until in 1877, at the end of Brigham Youngs reign as Mormon Prophet and King, the polygamous hierarchy became l00% interrelated. "Farm Roots of Incest: Marriages in the Kingston clan must be sanctioned by [the] current head of the church . Black blood was the worst thing you can have, Jessica said, particularly since the Kingstons consider themselves to be the whitest of the white, descended directly from Jesus Christ and King David, the Middle Eastern origins of both men notwithstanding. present a troubling scenario for law enforcement: these are crimes of a sexual nature committed in private in a closed society. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmhjgaB2Hi8. . . ", (Aimee Larsen Stoddard, "Fundamentalist Latter-day Saints Genealogy and Polygamy Problems," 7 October 2010, under "Birth Defects in Mormon Fundamentalist Cult," posted by "halley, 20 February 2011, at: http://www.renewamerica.com/bb/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=13723) They can't sit up. Moore-Emmett suggests that the heavily Mormon Utah government is unduly tolerant of polygamy and reluctant to acknowledge the abuses of many polygamous families. "Of the Kingstons, Williams says: 'There is not much you can do about them. Similarly, his older brother John Daniel Kingston has had 14 wives, four of them his half-sisters. greatly increases, medical experts say. . In one, Ortell warns that there is a movement afoot that wants to homogenize the people and make one race, by mixing all the races up. . . Almost everyone here is some variation of cousin, and, until Warren was locked up and decided to put a hold on all marriages, most men and women were paired together in order to preserve certain esteemed bloodlines. She is guiding me all around town, following my route, turn by turn, on Google maps. 'There are people that have married their nieces, people who have married their aunts,' he said. ", -Prophet John Taylor, "Millennial Star," vol. KUTV A large police presence swarmed a well-known polygamous family's property in South Salt Lake Wednesday.A Department of Justice Spokesman Peter Carr confirmed to KUTV that it is involved in . But [FLDS members] don't think of it as sexual predation. I promised myself to find out the truth when I grew up. One of the survivors includes Amanda Rae Grant, who appeared on season two of A&E's "Escaping . [w]omen do not have the freedom to consider how often she can give birth and maintain her health. "Our ancestral destiny meant we might give birth to sons who would die at maturity or daughters who would carry the trait to the next generation of sons. "Isaac Wyler, also a former follower of the church led by fugitive Warren Jeffs, told KSL that he was related by marriage to some of the victims. WREs influence earned special scrutiny in February 2016 after the IRS, the EPA and other government agencies raided owner Jacob Kingstons house as well as The Orders bank and other locations, carting away bankers box after bankers box of records. . . . Martha's husband was "Uncle" Fred Jessop, longtime Bishop to the FLDS people, who died in 2005 at 94, after being dragged from state to state by Warren Jeffs in what many ex-members believe was a transparent scheme of murder-by-stress: Dragging around a physically ailing, elderly man in need of constant medication is one way to kill a person without committing any outright murderous act, they say. . This is all compounded by the split between the FLDS and an offshoot group of polygamists that moved to nearby Centennial Park following a disagreement over how the community should be governed, and by whom). These defects could be life threatening like nephritis and spinal bifida, or merely debilitating like asthma. . . "Researchers have identified a gene on the first chromosome that causes fumarase deficiency, but no test has been developed that could be used to identify individuals carrying the malady. It has become the subject of increased scrutiny. "Like his father-in-law, John Y. Barlow became one of the towering patriarchs of the fundamentalist Mormon community and served as FLDS prophet from 1935 until his death in 1949. . girl, born to John Ortell and Isabell Johnson, was not the product of an incestuous marriage. Cases of fumarase deficiency have shown up in the FLDS communities in Colorado City and Hildale, and doctors believe that the incidence of the condition in these communities will increase in coming generations. "'It makes you sick; it turns your stomach,' she says. Sex. All of the gay people would definitely be the first to go, he said. [T]he one-wife system not only degenerates the human family, both physically and intellectually, but it is entirely incompatible with philosophical notions of immortality; it is a lure to temptation, and has always proved a curse to a people. "Tarby says the disease could begin to show up in children at Warren Jeffs' new FLDS headquarters . 'They have to outbreed,' Aleck says. The children live in the twin polygamist communities of Colorado City, Ariz., and Hildale, Utah. "If both parents are descendants of polygamy, the children may be at even greater risk. . One of their daughters married another of the community's founding patriarchs and religious leaders, John Yeates Barlow. . . Wyler's ex-wife's sister has had two babies afflicted with fumarase deficiency. Blood tests showed the infant and 25 other children from numerous women were fathered by the same man, leading to one of the largest welfare fraud-settlements in Utah history. "Finally exposed in the news, the facts of life inside [the Mormon offshoot Kingston clan's] religious/cult compound are stunning Mormons, Utahans, the nation, and the world. Gallup Panel survey [conducted in August 2006] show[ed] that Americans are much more likely to believe most Mormons endorse practicing polygamy than to believe most Americans support it. In addition to this issue, since the rulers . This racist display was no one-off. "Throughout the world, most polygamy is exogamous, or breeding outside the group. To date Mormons have only paid lip service to stopping polygamy. . Some read simply, "Baby Keate," or "Baby Bateman," or "Baby Cooke," with holes where numeric date tiles might otherwise be placed. . This child belongs to a family branch that [was] used in the U of U nephritis study. I do not know what we would do if we had only one wife apiece. . . The early Mormon Church practiced polygamy until 1890, when leaders abandoned the practice as a condition for Utah to gain statehood. Until the 1990s, there were only 13 known cases of FD in the world. . , says he has firsthand knowledge of multiple fumarase deficiency children in each of the three families. "I know these people personally.'. Child life is destroyed. The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS) is a polygamous sect straddling the Utah and Arizona state lines; the twin towns of Hildale, Utah, and Colorado City, Arizona, are known collectively as Short Creek (pronounced "crick"). Snow also remembered being taught end-time prophecies, with a cleansing wherein the streets of Salt Lake City would run red with blood. Rather than submit to DNA tests, which could have revealed the incest in his brood, he coughed up a more than $200,000 settlement. _____, --Conclusion: Mormonism is Sick--and So (Genetically Speaking) Are the Faithful Followers of the LDS Legacy of Blood-Poisoned Polygamy. There is no doubt about that at all. "These groups are white supremacists and inbreeding is an essential doctrine in keeping the bloodline pure. . . One ex-Order member, who asked to be referred to as Scott, instead of his real name for fear of retribution by clan members, said hatred of gays was big in the Kingston clan, with the word f----- in frequent use. Not only were there possibly too few fathers making it easier for defects to clump in the large interrelated kindred but succeeding generations of children from these isolated rural Mormon towns married within a few kindred as well. . ", ("Mormon Polygamy: Frequently Asked Questions," at: http://www.i4m.com/think/polygamy/polygamy_summary.htm). For fun he and other Order men would go to a park frequented by gay males, looking for victims. "The Mormons, well-known for genealogical record keeping, maintain birth, marriage and death information at church libraries and now on the Internet. "'You don't want to jump to the conclusion and say all of these are the result of inbreeding,' he says. "Marriages among first and second cousins have been common for decades in the community, where religious doctrine requires men to have at least three wives to gain eternal salvation. . Since the natural male-to-female ratio is roughly 50-50, the ratio must be manipulated so that there are more females than males for polygamy to work. "The leaders must also understand the ethical considerations of continuing behavior, he says, that is bringing children into the world who suffer tragic deformities. . I hate to talk like this about my own genealogy,' Wyler says, 'but, literally, they are keeping all the breeding stock--the women, the [strictly faithful] men--and weeding out the disobedient men. More recently, the Kingston-owned Washakie Renewable Energy (WRE) agreed to pay a $3 million fine after it was sued by the federal government for raking in tax credits for biofuels it never produced. thus marking the first time news media reported this human and civil rights nightmare accurately since the 1850s. "Community historian Ben Bistline said most of the community's 8,000 residents are in two major families descended from a handful of founders who settled there in the 1930s. "When asked, a little boy and girl at the home acknowledged who their mother is. "Frequent and powerful seizures are among the most disturbing characteristics of the disease. We havent gotten any big U.S. contracts, Young explained. Brigham Young, the second Mormon leader, preached, 'The time is coming when the Lord is going to raise a holy nation . 'We can only treat the complications of the disorder,' Aleck says. Her younger sister Emily thought it was a joke, too, until one day another Order kid told her, We cant play with you because the Tuckers are n------.. Dawna Black Bistline (Alyssa Bistline's father's brother's wife) has seen firsthand how the children of cousins suffer. One recent morning [John Ortell's niece and third wife, Mary Gustafson] defended her complicity in arranging her daughters' marriages to their half-brothers, sons of John Ortell and LaDonna. . One outspoken Mormon matriarch who attended the same Sunday meeting for 50 years commented about the health of the polygamous descendants versus the monogamous descendants, 'You see it in the obituaries. The samples could be tested for the gene at the Translational Genomics Research Institute in Phoenix. The girl's father and mother, Susan Nelson (one of John Daniel's many wives) are half-sister and brother. . "Mormon Prophet Hebrew J. The grave side funeral services will be at the grave side in Babyland at 4p.m.". Isaac Wyler, a former FLDS member who was excommunicated from the church . ". Upon the creation of the LDCJC, most members of the DCCS . and cousins. Chapter 2: The roots of a tortured clan By Western standards, Mohammad Shafia is not an educated man; born in middle-class Kabul in. he says. "Tarby said the victims require constant care from parents and close relatives. 'But just on general principles, the offspring of uncle-niece, or half-siblings have an elevated level of genetic disease. "Buried quietly on family farms, without notice of birth or death, child death often remains undocumented in polygamy clans. He estimates the test would . KUTV When several businesses inside the Kingston polygamist empire, including Washakie Renewable Energy, was raided by federal agents Wednesday, officials where tight lipped. Recordings of church testimony given by various Kingstons serve as further evidence of the cults bigoted teachings. . We're sitting in Ron's large kitchen, eating a meal of homemade tomato sauce and sweet Italian sausage that his wife Geria retired marriage and family therapist originally from Hurleyville, NY, who he met six years ago on Zoosk!has prepared in a slowcooker. The Kingstons teach that they are descended from Jesus Christ and these incestous marriages are intended to keep the bloodline pure, but instead have resulted in numerous Clan members being born with disabilties or birth defects, and it's not really that surprising to note that at one point during the second season of Escaping Polygamy, one of 'If you cross a Barlow and Jessop, you stand a high risk of getting this condition,' Tarby says. In 2006, Warren Jeffs, then the president and prophet of the FLDS, was arrested and charged with accomplice rape, for just two of the underage marriages he had arranged. "An unknown number--but believed to be in the thousands--of Barlow/Jessop descendants carry the recessive gene that causes fumarase deficiency. And they are growing. 5, p. 22. She knows that they're. Kingston -- the late enigmatic leader and church prophet who built the 1,500-member Kingston clan into a multimillion-dollar business empire while allowing many of his purported 13 wives and dozens of children to survive on government assistance. "My father and her grandmother were full brother and sister," she explains, recognizing the bloom of confusion on my face. . Literally, if they're 8 years old, it's like taking care of a baby.' Her parents and siblings eventually left as well. . When a group inbreeds, as polygamists have, more and more lethal gene matches occur. . "It's doesn't stop anybody," Dawna says. Mary Nelson, 23, tells "Whistleblower" host Alex Ferrer about how she escaped the Kingston clan, also known as The Order, with the help of her boyfriend Bryan. 'Right now, we are just looking at the tip of the iceberg.'. 'And is that religion popular in heaven?' "Ex-members' claims of incest are bolstered by court records claiming John Ortell 'failed either to support or acknowledge' three children by his niece, (Susan) Mary Gustafson. "A few years later [my cousin's] sister . 'They are totally helpless,' he says. 'And yet nobody wants to do anything about it. "In 1996, the now 31-year-old Kingston mother of two slow-growing children sought explanations at Primary Children's Medical Center. Bad harm. Nobody, from the police to [the governor], cares that these children are abused from conception to marriage.'. The two groups split when Dawna was growing up. "He sent her to live in a coal yard with other polygamous wives and their many children in South Salt Lake, visiting her rarely and usually only to have sex, she testified. Julie left the cult at age 19. The FLDS already has moved several hundred men, women and children to the compound, many of whom very likely carry the fumarase deficiency gene. If two descendants of hierarchical polygamy marry, the chances for genetic defects increase if the families were ever interrelated. "Andrea's son, now 7, lives with his father, Jason Kingston--Andrea's half-brother--and Rosalind, his niece. 'They are functioning way below their chronological age.'. The FLDS split off from the mainline Mormon (LDS) church in 1890 after the church denounced the principal of plural marriage. "Some are very debilitated and some aren't," he says. 'It's a bomb that's going to explode.'. The Order denies that it encourages racism and homophobia within its ranks. . Its ominous-sounding moniker, The Order, is a reference to the United Order, a quasi-utopian society proposed by LDS-founder Joseph Smith, and practiced in some Mormon communities under the leadership of early church president Brigham Young. 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