'I wasn't submissive enough': Ex-child bride who escaped Warren Jeffs' cult reveals how she got married to her abusive first cousin at 14 and suffered multiple miscarriages - only to be told she wasn't being a good wife
- FLDS ex-leader Warren Jeffs forced Elissa Wall to marry her 19-year-old cousin Allen Steed when she was just 14 years old
- Jeffs performed the marriage ceremony and after pressured her to have children with Steed, but she suffered several miscarriages and a stillbirth
- Wall described leading a 'very secret lifestyle' where they didn't interact with the outside world
- Wall eventually divorced her husband and the left church aged 18 before she testified against Jeffs during his criminal trials
- A judge awarded her $12million in punitive damages and $4million in damages in a lawsuit she filed against Jeffs, in September
- Wall is opening up about her experiences on a new documentary for A&E, named Warren Jeffs: Prophet of Evil
The ex-tyke lady of the hour who helped bring down Warren Jeffs has uncovered that she endured a few premature delivery a still birth after she was compelled to wed her 19-year-old first cousin when she was only 14.
Elissa Wall, now 31, was granted $16million in harms against Mormon religion pioneer Jeffs, last September, after she was the star witness in the trial that eventually put him away.
A judge noticed that as the pioneer of the confined order of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS) Jeffs had control over each part of his adherents' lives. He was in charge of organizing Wall, at that point 14, to wed her first cousin Allen Steed, at that point 19, over her complaints.
Presently, as a major aspect of another narrative for A&E, named Warren Jeffs: Prophet of Evil, Wall has opened up about her damaging youth experiencing childhood in the Utah-based faction which had an expected 15,000 devotees at one time.
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