a young lady reached out to us from the fles group she actually escaped a year ago i want to find my
sister theresa and i need your help last i knew she was in premier south dakota so one of the
lines of refuge exactly so what's up all we wanted for years is to get my mom out she's just worried
about becky she's 14. no mother would ever want her daughter to live through those things that
i lived through and i will do whatever it takes to protect her from that let's go we're leaving
we need to go now go go go hurry here's the compound i want to go in
right here i see theresa oh my gosh there's too many people around i'm not gonna go down to her
now that we know theresa is there we have hope and we'll be back out
my birth father is john daniel kingston my father is john dowell 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
rachel's up by the house looking at the back door
she's getting ready to move do you think we should just tell rachel to pull back she's
so determined to get her sister i'm so nervous she's up on the porch she's going up to the door
it's killing me to not see what's going on she's checking the upper door
brandon do you have eyes on rachel
brandon
i don't see her
oh my gosh i don't have eyes on rachel
rachel said she's on her way out here did you order her something no she said she wasn't that
hungry so we're just gonna split something okay a few months ago we met a girl named rachel jeffs
how are you it's nice to finally meet you yes rachel was once considered the
favorite daughter of warren jeff the prophet of the polygamist group the
flds prosecutors used dna evidence to show jeff's father to child with a 15 year old
rachel jeffs ran away from the flds church over a year ago she escaped in the middle of the night
with her five children rachel left behind most of her siblings who are still members to this day of
the flds but rachel has a favorite sister named teresa and she wants to get her out
i know that she does want to go again for sure if she tries to
go back now this is going to be her last chance she's here
hey hey amanda have you been good good did you bring the pictures yes yes i did i think it'd be
good for us to go over all this and for jessica to see because she's never been on the compound yeah
so these are pictures of teresa when we last were there okay that's her teresa is my little sister
i'm eight years older than her she really looked up to me as
a big sister i think i taught her third grade i loved to comb her golden hair it was like
the prettiest color of hair and i just thought she was the cutest little girl she's always really
special to me the day after she turned 15 father married her to raymond jessup who was 34 years old
and theresa was his ninth wife in 2008 there was a raid on the land of refuge in texas
widespread sexual abuse allegations centered here at the yfc temple with claims of rape and
beatings of young girls at the hands of much older men teresa's husband raymond jessup was arrested
and convicted of child sexual assault and sentenced to 10 years in prison he's still
serving that sentence today for raping my little sister well i consider raping my little sister
but i haven't seen or heard from her for a couple of years now and i want to go in there and get her
so you couldn't get her alone no no someone was there with her but to know that she's there that
was the big thing of what we want to know and now i want to approach her if i can i'm sure we'll be
seen but that's kind of why i want brandon to be there with me who is brandon brandon is my fiancee
i feel like it'd be a good thing for him to come with me because of his connection with me and he
knows the flds church and used to be a part of it too so he said that he knows the mindset
of the man better than i do and because he's been a man in polygamy yeah and he feels like
he wants to be really careful and he's really protective that's good and he feels like carrying
a gun would be a good idea because obviously the people there will be mad that we are there
and he feels i'm not aware of the danger that i am in do the guys on this property carry guns
i don't know because i have been there for so long so what happens if we get calm
then we deal with it what's the worst case scenario though that will be really intimidating
they'll be upset for sure okay so
he feels like you guys need a gun on the property maybe we should bring an extra security guy
and i think it's a good idea for you to go as well yeah i can come this time exactly yeah that's a
good idea so if she can leave then we'll take her and we'll be ready for her to come out this time
so is the plan going to be the same you still want to give her the letter
i want teresa to know the truth about what happened to me when i was younger
you have become a good lady despite your weak father
please forgive me for my weakness in your upbringing forgive me any bad examples i have set
it really is important that people know the truth about the man they're following so that they can
make a choice with knowledge she should have the opportunity to choose what she thinks is right and
wrong and to leave if she wants to so now i feel like we should act soon because father's always
moving people around and if he hears that i am trying to reach her then he's going to move her
as quick as possible this is your last time to really get on that property yeah after
this they're gonna know you're there they're gonna move her whatever they do to her so at this point
this is your last chance yeah and so i feel like we should move as quickly as possible if we can
i can go in about two days i need to get there in about two does that sound good yeah for you
are you almost ready amanda we gotta hurry looking at this it looks like a storm's coming in
are you serious yeah how much time do we have probably about two hours we should hurry
yeah tell rachel i don't want to get stuck out there this compound in south dakota is
in the middle of nowhere it's hard to get in and it's really hard to get out
they have watch towers they have barbed wire fences cameras and motion detectors
i honestly am not sure if it's to keep the outsiders out or the insiders in
i'm hoping that we'll see her
have you been thinking about what you're going to say to her when you finally get out there
mostly just wanted to know that i'm here for her if she wants to leave
my name is brandon blackmore and up till 2012 i was a member of the flds religion in march
1st 2004 i was married by warren jeffs to rose maria she would have been 17 at the time i was 21
and we'd never heard or met each other until five minutes before the wedding they took
us in a room and married us and then they sent us to canada to another flds community
i did fall in love with her and through the years we've had three boys and one girl the bird
pitch these roots in 2011 war and jeff sent down a revelation to the canadian people that there was
to be no more sex or any sort of husband-wife relation as he were to in his revelation and
every month you had to hand in a confession and they would ask you directly if you were having
sexual relations with your wife and i would just ask them if they had had any with their wives
let's just say that my interviews were very short
i told rose maria i felt like the only reason they did that was to try to gain more control
over a family in a household and she in turn went and told the church authorities
the leaders came to my home while i was gone and got my children and my wife and moved
them usually i try to hold your family and your children as hostage so to speak to make you do
what they want but all it did was make me very angry i basically told them to go to hell i was
not going to leave my children behind to be raised in that religion i fought for full
custody of my children it took a canadian supreme court two hours to deliberate the flds community
is not a safe or a good place for children to be raised and i gained full custody of my children
warren jeff's to me he's not a sane man but he deserves to be exactly where he is
it's quite bizarre that i am in love with his daughter
and that we are going to be married when i first met her i just thought boy that'd be
fun to date her because i better really piss off her dad i have a lot of anger with the hephelvius
and i would really love to help anyone get out i'd love to give them that opportunity
i'm glad that you have that gun uh-huh make phillip more secure
you never know for sure what may happen
you guys ready yep it looks like we have a storm coming in right here
here's the compound right in this area and they're expected to get six to eight inches of snow today
this could definitely affect our plans