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Stolen Innocence: My Story of Growing Up in a Polygamous Sect, Becoming a Teenage Bride, and Breaking Free of Warren Jeffs [Mass Market Paperback]

Elissa Wall (Author)
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Publication Date: Feb 9 2009

“Both creepy…and quite moving.”
—New York Times Book Review

“Wall’s story couldn’t be more timely.”
—People

Stolen Innocence is the gripping New York Times bestselling memoir of Elissa Wall, the courageous former member of Utah’s infamous FLDS polygamist sect whose powerful courtroom testimony helped convict controversial sect leader Warren Jeffs in September 2007. At once shocking, heartbreaking, and inspiring, Wall’s story of subjugation and survival exposes the darkness at the root of this rebel offshoot of the Mormon faith.

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“Wall’s story couldn’t be more timely. Her descriptions of the polygamous sect’s rigidity are shocking, but what’s most fascinating is the immensely likeable author’s struggle to reconcile her longing for happiness with her terror of it’s consequences.” (People )

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In September 2007, a packed courtroom in St. George, Utah, sat hushed as Elissa Wall, the star witness against polygamous sect leader Warren Jeffs, gave captivating testimony of how Jeffs forced her to marry her first cousin at age fourteen. This harrowing and vivid account proved to be the most compelling evidence against Jeffs, showing the harsh realities of this closed community and the lengths that Jeffs went to in order to control the women in it. Now, in this courageous memoir, Elissa Wall tells her incredible and inspirational story of her time in the Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints (FLDS), detailing how she emerged from its confines to help bring one of America's most notorious criminals to justice.

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Stolen Innocence - Elissa's journey into Adulthood Mar 20 2012
By Angel
Format:Mass Market Paperback
After reading both Escape and Triumph, I needed one more taste, a different persepctive of how someone grew up in this community. Elissa Wall provided that for me. She writes beautifully and painfully details day after day what it was like being married to someone she hated. Never giving in to the brainwashing around her telling her that how she is feeling is wrong, Elissa stands up to her husband and her community to justify how she feels. Her wedding day is described in such painful detail that I could imagine being in the room with her. I cried with her. I was constantly taken by how she managed to stay out at nights - not to persue a wicked lifestyle, but to perserve her soul and sanity by not being raped over and over again. Elissa said she needed to grow up first before being married, and ultimately, in the end that's what happened.

The only issue I had with the book is the small writing in a small book format, but you quickly overcome that as you are wrapped up in her story. It's an excellent read and the way she protects herself and takes a stand for what she beleives in, is truly inspiring. I'm glad she got out and made a life for herself - and I'm glad she shared her story with the world.
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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book Feb 4 2009
By Ecclectic reader
Format:Paperback
I really enjoyed this book. It's hard to believe that this type of abuse still goes on today. It's fascinating and infuriating to hear an insider's account of her life in a society where they have almost no control over their own lives. Organized religion gone bad again.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars An Interesting Read Mar 6 2010
By Erin.n.mike1
Format:Mass Market Paperback
A different view of the polygamous lifestyle, this book being written more recently, she had a lot more dealings with Warren Jeffs. It really gives an in depth view of poly marriages, and how much power the FLDS has over families. Seeing how the church forces the will of a few key people on the majority of the members, and condones abuse and rape is shocking.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Discussed with those older men
I love reading these types of books. It's discussing that older men can control these women or young children(girls) for their own sexual needs and use their religion to do it. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Lorraine
5.0 out of 5 stars Stolen Innocence
I chose this rating because I felt the circumstances and the writing and the courage of Elissa Wall deserved it. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Muffins
5.0 out of 5 stars an eye opener
found it hard to believe but was disproven when I check the fats. You cannot put it down and it circulates like mad.
Published 5 months ago by judyevelyn
5.0 out of 5 stars GREAT
This is a must read! Very hard to put down, and to believe this happend. Very well written.
The book truly opens your eyes to the world around us.
Published 14 months ago by Shannon
5.0 out of 5 stars A MUST READ!!!!!!!!! two thumbs way up
I could not put this book down. From beginning to end, Elissa Wall's story is so unbelievable and well written that you can't believe it's a true story. Read more
Published on July 17 2009 by V. Stokes
5.0 out of 5 stars A page-turner and eye-opener
Stolen Innocence

After a friend recommended me the book, I opened Stolen Innocence, Elissa Wall's story of living in the FLDS, with the notion the book was going to be... Read more
Published on Jun 15 2009 by Katie Vaughan
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent writing Elissa
I am so shocked that these religions still exist in this day and age! I can't imagine tearing a family apart because of the beliefs of a crazy man like Warren Jeffs and others like... Read more
Published on May 7 2009 by Judith Maxwell
4.0 out of 5 stars GIMME THAT OLD TIME RELIGION...
I recently became intrigued by the patriarchal Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS) and the strange metamorphosis it has undergone by virtue of the... Read more
Published on Mar 16 2009 by Lawyeraau
5.0 out of 5 stars must read book
Wow this book was a book everyone should read. Elissa wall had a very hard child hood. at age 14 when i was enjoying school and playing this little girl was married
and... Read more
Published on July 20 2008 by Andrew E. Gomm
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