Thank God someone cares
by mouthy 13 Replies latest watchtower child-abuse
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KW13
tragic stuff, i agree - its good someone deals with this!
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Arthur
I'm glad they finally caught this flap-jack. Isn't it ironic that he was arrested in Las Vegas aka "sin city"?
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iamfreenow
Yes, it is tragic, but someone does care, thankfully, and the survivors are getting the help they need.
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Lady Lee
Justice: The Polygamist's Life
Escaping Warren Jeffs's controversial religious sect.
By Andrew Murr Newsweek
Sept. 11, 2006 issue - Polygamous leader Warren Jeffs banished Sam Icke for kissing a girl. Icke, then 17, had been doing his best to follow the rules of Jeffs's insular Mormon sect—listening to the leader's taped sermons, avoiding even G-rated movies and wearing wrist-to-ankle clothes in the desert sun. But after the kiss, Icke was forced to leave his family in Colorado City, Ariz., with only a car and a 10th-grade education in tow. He floundered on his own. "I was lost and scared," he recalls. But last year he got help from a group that assists the "Lost Boys," as many call the estimated 600 to 1,000 young men who've left—or been booted from—the sect in the past decade. Today Icke, 22, is studying accounting and working full time. "I feel completely different," he says.
Jeffs's arrest last week outside Las Vegas after four months on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list sets the stage for trials in Utah and Arizona on charges that he allegedly performed illegal marriages between young girls and older men. With Jeffs behind bars, will more of the prophet's 10,000 followers try to leave? Departed members say it has never been easy to break away from the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS), which continued to practice polygamy after splitting from the mainstream Mormon Church (which banned polygamy in 1890). But in the last few years, an underground railroad of nonprofit groups and government agencies has emerged to smooth their path.
Some groups aid women who want to escape the "celestial marriages"; several ex-FLDS women are now helping prosecutors go after ex-husbands for sexual abuse. Other groups help the Lost Boys, who are typically told to leave because they've broken the rules. (Those who have left say the exiles are ejected so that they don't compete with the group's elders for young brides.) Icke got help from the Diversity Foundation, founded by Dan Fischer, a dental-products entrepreneur and former FLDS member who quit 12 years ago.
The transition isn't easy. Those who flee need food, shelter and jobs. Unaccustomed to managing money, many former FLDS members tumble into debt, says Icke. Some turn to alcohol and drugs, convinced that they are already bound for hell and have nothing to lose, says Fischer. His foundation has spent nearly $3 million on rent, tuition and counseling, and has helped many Lost Boys into high school and college.
© 2006 Newsweek, Inc. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14640265/site/newsweek/from/ET/
Last night I saw an ad on TV for a movie that sounds very similar to this. Some of the info sounded so cultish and the parallels to the JWs was amazing. I didn't get when this will air. From the info it looked like they were still filming. Hopefully the ad will be on again
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Janey
Hi,
I think it is strange taht this topic was here. Myname is Janey. I have a friend in Boise. Actually he lives in a little town nort of here.
He told me that he is a Jehovah's Witness, kind of. He is an older kid, not a little kid so he can take care of himself I think. Maybe 16. I never asked his age. He is real cute!!!! But, the reason I was looking for information about Jehovah's witnesses was because he told me that thsi guy he works with is also one and he has been touching him in weird ways when he's working. He doesnt care because he makes good money, he was just blabbing at me. He lays hard wood floors and some times he helps him.
I wanted to know if there was a priest or something for Jehovah's Witnesses that I could call. I think there is more going on then he told me.
He is not a real employee, just kind of helps and he pays him. I guess that the guy he work s for has a business called AMAX, iremember that becasue it sounds like Ajax, and that is my dogs name, and it is a big deal in the church, so maybe someone here knows it. I thought maybe if I found out who the highest one to go to was then I could call for him. He told me some other things that don't sound good. I thought maybe I could go to my minister at my church.
Ok thats all. Thank you for your help.
Janey
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purplesofa
The transition isn't easy. Those who flee need food, shelter and jobs. Unaccustomed to managing money, many former FLDS members tumble into debt, says Icke. Some turn to alcohol and drugs, convinced that they are already bound for hell and have nothing to lose, says Fischer. His foundation has spent nearly $3 million on rent, tuition and counseling, and has helped many Lost Boys into high school and college.
yes........glad someone is there to help and sounds like they really understand....
purps
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purplesofa
Janey.....I am not sure how to help you to help your friend......but there should be alot of info coming your way soon.
Welcome to the board.
purps maybe a moderator can have your comment made into your own thread.
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Janey
It is not that big of a deal, I just worried a little about him. I don't know it wasn't what he said but the way he said it. ya know?
Thank you for answering me so fast. I thought it would be a while.
Janey