i know my mom wants to leave polygamy but my mom is afraid where would i go
she thinks that if she leaves she will go to hell do you realize that daniel's abusive he's
got you here living in this home raising his kids and he's not doing anything for you
that's neglect we have contacted the health department to condemn this home how are you
doing right we have leaks through here she put in the pipe yeah you can see under the house
i've had the argument with daniel and i said i pay the rent i pay the utilities
i pay daycare i buy the food and you come and go as you damn well please i'm not a doormat
my birth father is john daniel kingston my father is john down kingston
my biological father is daniel kingston me jessica and chanel all have the same father
their mom is the sixth of 14 wives and my mom is the seventh
the order is a polygamous group in the salt lake valley
they think that they're about religion but it's not about religion at all it's all about sex
i was married to one of my cousins when i was 18 years old
i was physically abused almost daily
at the age of 14 i was courted by my 42 year old uncle
i would have been his third wife
my whole life i was told if you leave you're going to hell but i couldn't say because it was hell
when we were very young we made a pact that we're gonna get out
we actually did these young girls we got out
now all three of us are committed to helping people escape plug me i want to
help other people realize they're not going to be punished for leaving the abuse and the pain
there's esco he's leaving the church i just saw him get in his car
he's heading to the house i bet you they'll be leaving earlier because esco's here
they're going to be calling him being like where are you let's grab the boxes real quick hurry
run go jessica's calling me she's watching the church hello hey i think i saw your mom's
green car did she leave yep she just left oh somebody's coming right by me
eskel called me and all he told me was that it's something to do with dad and he wanted to meet up
with us and talk about it i think he's okay i have no idea what exactly what it's about but
the only way that he can get out was he used to go on jogs so he planned on going on a jog today
what time is it it's been like 15 to 20 minutes dad has seen us all leave
now seeing eskel he's probably like kate if he doesn't go to church if he doesn't do what i
want him to do then yeah he's probably tying him down pretty well i left the order a few years ago
and since then my older sister cami left and then we helped my sister rachel leave careful
we all left the order because we saw the truth the order is 100 about the man having control
my dad is blaming my mom for all of us leaving the order
he's pissed off my father verl is a numbered man and that's a huge deal in the order
in fact our father verl is one of the sons of the previous leader ortel kingston
our father in heaven now before they they're closing this meeting today
for a numbered man to have three daughters leave the order not only do his peers look down on him
he gets opportunities taken away he gets lower wages he has to get kicked out of his home
into a smaller home because he's not as important anymore do you think he'll even be able to get out
saying he's going on a run i don't know if dad's home then there's probably he's probably
not going to get out what if he what if he's on the other side so we go check on the other side
hey he's over here hello
that's cold i miss you what am i taller than you now what did you want to talk to us about
i definitely have decided that i want to leave
i think the easiest way is if i can go far away and i hope you guys can help me
my name is eskel grant my father is verl johnson and my mom is lori grant
my father of earl has three wives the first one is luina my mom's oldest sister
my mom is the second and rhonda is his half sister the third wife
i always thought that was really strange and really weird then my dad married his half-sister
my dad says that you have to have multiple wives to go to the celestial kingdom but when you're a
guy in my church it's just extremely rare to marry a girl the same age as you usual age difference
from a married couple is seven years so when i'm 21 i can marry girls as young as 14.
in the order there is no real age for a man to get married a 60 year old can marry an underage girl
it doesn't matter the girl's age or the guy's age right now i know a list of girls who are as young
as 12 years old who are patrolled to much older men and already know who they are going to marry
in the real world consummating a marriage with a girl that young is illegal the kingstons are not
only living polygamy but they are practicing incest they believe in keeping the line pure
so if you're going to get married in the order your choices are are basically your family it did
take me a while to finally decide to officially leave and that was mainly because of mom she wants
me to stay and she wants things to change but i just i feel like she said that a long time ago
and nothing has changed dad's the one that's in control of everything so if he wants things one
way and she wants things the other way then she has to go along with him he controls everyone
in the household because he's the man of the house i don't want to live polygamy because i don't want
to ever put someone through what my mom had to go through my mom is definitely expected to give
everything to him and love him unconditionally and he doesn't think that he has to love her back
i want to be a father that is always there for his kids and not have to worry about
the girls getting married into a family with multiple wives and being neglected
my dad will definitely be upset if i leave and i feel like he'll kind of punish my mom by taking
away her house and making her move into a smaller place she just kind of has to do whatever he says
it makes me feel really bad because i do talk to mom a lot and i keep telling her that she should
just go too and then she always goes on these long talks about how she'll never make it out there
it's way too expensive she has too many kids but with that scaring her she finds all these reasons
to make herself stay he lies her all the time since you're 18 has he changed like towards you
been more strict on you he's tried to set up a meeting with paul me him and paul and everything
border members actually believe that paul kingston is a direct descendant of jesus christ he has 27
wives and over 300 children nine times out of ten a person that goes into a meeting with paul
comes out of there loving the order because they feel important from the age there too paul
thank thee for paul for paul being the prophet he's such a great man
thank you for blessing us with paul brother paul is the man on the watchtower
thank you very much for later brother paul we thank you for our later brother paul
they feel like oh the leader i'm just a person the leader is actually talking to me
it is an honor and a privilege just to be in the same room as brother paul
it's a privilege to be able to shake his hand and it for sure is a privilege to do exactly what he
says he said he just wants to set up a meeting with paul and i i don't want to go don't go to it
how much time do you have just till five and it's pretty close to five so i do gotta go just let us
know we'll be there for you yes whenever if you want to go tomorrow if you want to go tonight
we'll be there eskel needs to leave the order before he steps foot into that office with paul
paul is the leader for a reason he does know how to brainwash people
if he goes into that meeting there's no telling how essel is going to be when he comes out
hello
um no just folding laundry okay well i just thought i'd let you know that daniel was over
last night and he told me that i could no longer live here what he told me i could no
longer live here and then i no longer had a job because i have allowed the health department to
come in without a film crew and that they can't have people like that living there
okay okay it's okay i'm gonna get ready to go right now bye
hey kathy are you busy right now can yeah can you meet me at my mom's house yeah
she's getting kicked out will you call andy and brandy and ask them to as well
okay i'm headed over there right now my mom shirley is the seventh of 14 wives to daniel
kingston who's one of the highest leaders of the order for the past 17 years my mom has been
living in a run-down apartment owned by the order because she was assigned to live there by daniel
oh my god my mom's whole adult life has been spent trying to be a good order wife
she got married at 18 years old to a kingston she had kids she worked for the orders businesses she
lived on the order's properties daniel always told my mom that he was only responsible for giving her
two things making sure she had a place to live and a place to work now that my mom exposes the truth
about how she's been living in poverty daniel kicks her out she loses her job and her home
wow what's going on anyway i come home last night from going to mom's house
and daniel caldwell i know he could stop by so then he came over and he let me know that because
i allowed cameras to come in and record the condition of the home how are you doing hi
it's the davis county health department sorry if we come in because we brought in the state
and brought in the health department and made it public then i cannot be on order property
because we just can't have people that do that to us and embarrass us like that that and you never
did apologize yet what do you need to apologize for i had betrayed his kingdom of god and
therefore i can't live on their property and i no longer have a job either did i do anything wrong
depends on a person's perspective i don't feel like that i was wrong trying to get help
he's the one that's kicking me out because he's embarrassed
because i exposed the condition of many of the homes of the plural wives i am a total
embarrassment to the order if you're supposed to be the father and head of the family i says
then what's your responsibility and how you're gonna support me and he says oh we'll just see
mom he's not just pushing you out he's setting you free be free be free and happy yes we love you a
heck of a lot more than they love you i know they don't want me they just want my girls yeah well
cause girls are good breeding stock and i'm well it's a package deal it's you and your girls that
we take not just you so now it's time to do something to protect your girls but i don't
even know where i'm going yet for sure like i told you as far as that's concerned at this point
we just need to get you out everything can be you and your kids are what is important not the stuff
i know stuff is replaceable individuals are not right
how am i going to take care of my family i how am i going to get a job
these guys have always helped me have a job shirley we can do it okay
you have a family no you have to stop okay just give me a minute