seeing marianne as she was walking
i egg started to get nervous
i didn't know what to expect of her hey
this is melanie melanie and andrea how are you
i've never had you before oh you did you're a small baby that's right do you want to sit down
oh my goodness you look like mom
no i'll let you guys catch up okay yeah i have so many questions for marietta
but i want to give them that space so that they can connect as sisters and they can
have that opportunity to make the bond that they weren't allowed to have before
wow i remember you as a baby but i don't remember you don't remember me
no how are you doing now i'm good i'm really scared and really hesitant
to um meet you yeah it's a hard thing to do because
i i kind of in the back of my mind always dreamed of being able to have younger brothers and sisters
um in my life but at the time when i left it was so just so much easier for me to just cut
the ties i've always wanted terriers how you did it though oh i did it i did it with one foot in
front of the other my name is marianne my biological father is daniel kingston
when i was 16 daniel approached me somebody had asked for my hand in marriage
and the guy was his younger brother david kingston he was 33.
i don't feel like i could have said no you don't want to go against any of your elders
so after we got married david found me an apartment on the same property as one
of his other wives i can't remember which one i wanted away from it i didn't want to be married
didn't like what was going on and i was worried about getting pregnant
i went home to my mom's house hoping she would protect me but she called daniel
and next thing i know daniel came through the door
and just grabbed me and took me out to his truck he grabbed me by the hair and hit me in the face
up to the ranch we went where he beat me
business went on at the ranch people saw that i was there but they just didn't ask
on sunday when everybody left the ranch to go to church then that's when i started walking i
can't tell you how far it was but i got to the gas station and called the cops
at the hospital they decided that i had a fractured nose i had bruises on my face
from being hit cut lip my back was bruised up and down from my neck to the back of my
knees when i had to sit in the courtroom and testify against daniel and david
it was hard but it wasn't going to stop me from saying what i needed to say
i wanted to help stop the abuse the underage marriages and living in
fear
after that it was a lot of day by day and my support group meaning my foster home they loved
me and they were there for me so what was the hardest thing that you've been through
coming out oh the hardest thing was that i had to make my own choices if i was to leave utah
they would be mad let them be mad it doesn't matter anymore what anybody else says or does
you can do this i know i know it's going to be worth it many years i'm going to be far
far from this you're going to carry it and that is what made you you the past is what built you
the past is what drives you to do what you're going to do next
thank you
i'm so proud of you
you don't know
you're strong you're stronger than you know
you are is your dad taking you to the park hey chanel hey yeah they're gonna go to the park
thanks for coming andra called me in she wants me to skype her seem like really urgent i gotta
text my mandarin she wants me to call her right away i'm not sure what's going on come on kids
hey hey can you see us i can see you can see me
so amanda called and she said that her little sister rachel
wants to leave like she's ready to get out right now we have to figure out a
way to get her get her and her stuff out without her mom and the kids finding out
when does she want to leave she wants to leave in the middle of the night because that's when
her dad's out of town right now so she wants to like take advantage of that she also wants
to leave whenever like when your mom and the kids are asleep wait tonight in the middle of the night
but she needs more people yeah you know the more the better yeah
try to be safe and try to follow the laws through the t because we don't want to get her in trouble
and we don't want to get us in trouble with the law okay love you okay love you bye bye
hey you guys what's going on
um i thought that we would be able to do this on our own kind of but my dad's gonna be back
from his trip because he's on a trip with the first wife yeah so it'd be nice that if you guys
could help i'm scared that my dad might come home there will be a huge scene i don't want
rachel to have to deal with any more than she's already dealing with right now should we drive by
her house so we can go see it yeah we can scout out the place so that you guys can know what to
expect
all right which one the very last house right here that white car is rachel's car
so her window is not the first one with the second one my mom's window is in the back
so rachel's plan is that she's going to give her stuff to us through the window
there's always the possibility that she'll change her mind in the last minute we don't know
if rachel will actually follow through with the plan until she crawls out that window tell her to
put her keys to her car on her person before we even start so if this goes south
she can immediately get her just jump out of her house and get into her car
rachel wants to escape tonight and we're so lucky that brian and mary have an open room for her so
i ordered some chinese food if you guys want some brian helped mary escape a few years ago brian was
an outsider and him and mary met they fell in love and got married so amanda what's the plan like
okay so obviously wait until everybody's asleep and then she's going to get out through her window
is her is rachel's room right next to your mom's room so when he's on the front
the house and my mom's one of those on the side right here and there's no chance viral is gonna
be back until tomorrow afternoon then from what we know now no do you think rachel's
doing okay right now i wanna read you guys this just to see the last thing that she said
yes everything is in bags except the clothes that mom would notice missing she's going to
drive her car here right yeah so uh yeah we should put it on well yeah we'll make sure to just put
in the garage right away okay um i'm just scared too though because she's she is strong she's a lot
stronger than a lot of the girls there but she's still like this little she's my little sister
and i want anything bad to happen to her do you think there's a chance she wouldn't leave tonight
i got a text from rachel it says everyone's sound asleep so we should head over to get jessica okay
so i'm gonna go with you guys i'm gonna follow behind in case pearl shows up that'd be awesome
i'm gonna jump in the backseat because jessica's driving
all right so what has she been saying she says we're good to go
i just texted rachel and i said double check on mom make sure that mom's for sure asleep
she just sent me a text she's ready
oh my gosh you ready okay this is really happening this is actually happening
hurry go run
oh my god
you want me to stay there
there's just too much stuff
this is taking too long we gotta go we gotta go hurry run
are we done
just ridiculous we're going to get
caught no that is not safe do not climb in that window
this is crazy i hear something i hear something
oh my god
oh my gosh what's up
holy crap
wow she's cruising she isn't kidding she's ready to leave
she is going to have to be the strong one we can help her get out but we're not going to
keep her out if she they talk her back into going back in she's going back in
i'm a little bit scared but yeah i'm excited okay let's all go inside
that's awesome i love it i love those colors that's like my favorite i want my husband
i don't think i'd have anything to have the sauce go get everything now do you want him yeah
what i was leaving the order i didn't really think about
well this is it you know i'm not gonna be coming back here i'm finally gone
just finally finally realizing what happened i
that was my life and
it's hard to start over scary i don't know what what's going to happen next you know
did you feel if you like your bed i love it feel it lay on it i did i sat on it
rachel already has so much family that has left she's got a really good support system
amanda's rachel's sister she's the one that rachel's going to go to when things get hard
because she's going to be in it and her emotions are going to be all over the place so we're
just here to support amanda support rachel let them both know that they're not alone
you should get settled in get some sleep thank you so much you guys thank you
guys yeah because it's like four in the morning that's awesome congratulations
thanks for including us so much for you guys i'm gonna give you a hug even though we don't
know each other very well yeah we will yeah we'll all be a big community and a family
you