everybody is so afraid to leave because they're threatened but what they don't realize is when
you leave no one has that power over you no one gets to hurt you anymore and this is what you want
this is what you want we're going through this is happening right now okay let's go
a lot is going down today and it's going to be intense duck down break down oh my gosh
we're all at risk i want to go in right here you're not going to let her go that easily mommy
we got incoming we got to go we got to get out of here now if ariel gets caught then they could take
her away we got cars coming in we're like fish here in the shark tank they're circling oh my gosh
he's running i'm glad that you have that gun you never know what to expect we didn't just escape an
abusive father we escaped an abusive system here this is john kingston we have some trespassers
that are hospitals our family how am i going to take care of my family how am i going to get a job
these guys have always helped me have a job it's going to be way harder it's gonna be way different
i feel like that they're trying to put things into my mind how can you get married when you're 14 15
years old i just keep my mouth shut let's go along with it i have freedom of choice
i will marry who i choose and when i choose he's like don't you wish i don't know how the damage
that's been done to that family can be fixed we just need to get you out
over by the tree there's something that i want you to have i've already provided these documents to
the irs what do they say that they want to take down the order from the inside out yes so i'm
running down there right now the order bank and being rated right now by the police federal agents
shut down businesses tied to the kingston polygamist group this is history in the making
be careful there will be order members there and you will be blamed for this
i am tired of living a lie have i wasted the last 30 years of my life
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 fourteen wives and my mom is the seventh
the order is a polygamous group in the salik 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
hey hey are you at the office yeah i'm here okay i'm on my way to you you're not gonna believe
what just got sent to me it's from the insider who gives us information can you get andrew on
a video call uh yeah it's just too much to explain but if you can get andrew on a video
call i want to talk to both of you guys about it okay i'll do that okay i'll see you soon bye
from the day my sisters and i have been helping people get out of polygamy there's been an insider
who's still a member of the kingston group that's been helping us i'm reaching out to you from
inside the order here's proof i have access to that which is private in the kingston families
that person is trying to help us expose the order and the king students for what they are everything
they ever provided us with or forewarned us about has all been legitimate what this person
has really done is help us validate what really goes on in the order they have no clue who this
person is but one thing that is clear this person is taking a tremendous risk to be helping us out
do you know what's going on no apparently the insider gave jessica something that she wants to
share with us yeah jessica just got here hey hey andrew i have something here i want to show you
let me see i'm gonna hurry and pull it up what is it they sent a video
here you go listen to it the order is trying to stop you
you guys are making a real impact and the order is getting frightened and paranoid
paul and daniel are threatening to sue anyone who contacts you guys or anybody who reaches out to
you at all order members are being monitored now more than ever the order is beefing up
security on all of the order businesses and the order church i am still a trusted order member
i have sent you something it is the beginning of the order trying to [ __ ] the work that you do
tomorrow you will make national news some move forward with caution i will too what does that
mean what is it i have a document i'm sending to you it's a lawsuit chanel and i are listed
in here does that mean we're being sued for what when we helped melanie let's go
while melanie and her family were discussing alternative living arrangements jessica and
chanel arrived at susie's house in an effort to pressure melanie to leaving her home
disgusting they had her pinned down you need to let go of her with melania she can come back
stay she tomorrow to leave she should be able to go get out of our house now get up she asks
for help we're responding to her call yeah that symbolic is pretty ridiculous this just looks
like a desperate attempt trying to scare us they are looking for something anything to stop us
you guys did nothing wrong and if anything this means that we need to be more careful
and we need to bring security with us for sure but
we're not going to stop helping people just because they're trying to scare us no i worry
this is going to make other people on the inside not reach out to us i hope they're smart enough
to see through it if this hits national news like the insider said it will people are going
to start asking questions and we need to say no comment until we figure out what this is okay
i'll let you know what happens tomorrow bye you have to get running have you heard anything okay
let me know i will and just keep in touch with me tomorrow i'm sure we're gonna hear something
you will make national news
it is the beginning of the order trying to [ __ ] the work that you do
but i'm going to continue to do what i can to bring
the order and the leaders paul and daniel down
oh my gosh
last night i got an urgent call from my sister jessica she said that our full-blooded sister
jennifer jumped out a window and ran from our father daniel because she wants to get
out right now it's really hard because i'm in law school and finals are coming up but this is my
little sister and i i never thought the day would come where one of my own full-blooded siblings
wanted out and i just thought like i would regret it for the rest of my life if i didn't come
and i haven't i haven't seen her i haven't seen jennifer it must have been it's been nine years
i mean i've seen pictures of her i know i know she's an adult now but all i can picture is
that little nine-year-old girl
i want to help jennifer because i totally 100 get it when i was younger i was terrified of our
dad john daniel kingston growing up there was a long history of physical abuse from
the hands of our father when i was 12 years old and my sister jessica was 15
jessica and i decided to get her ears pierced and daniel found out he was furious
we were terrified because he's beaten us plenty of times in the past he jumped over his desk and
he lunged at us and he grabbed jess's head and he was pushing her down and said i'm going to
rip your earrings out take your earrings out i'm going to rip them out if you don't take them out
i just wanted dial to stop hurting me and i thought why am i sitting here and taking this
i'm so done with him i ran out the door he came running behind me and from there it was just a
matter of survival and i ran into the closest gas station i hid made the decision i'm done with this
i'm not going back to the order i called the police and the police brought me back to my
dad's office andrea was there and i told ander i was leaving and she said don't leave me here
now this all stems from an incident more than a year ago when two other teenage girls came home
with their ears pierced allegations of abuse neglect in this polygamous clan's surface
during the trial jessica and i had to testify and i had to relive
i had to relive all the abuse that my dad put us through
he would hit us with boards he would force us to eat rotten food and if we throw it
up he forced us to eat that for daniel it's not like he's just a dad of a couple people
he's a dad almost 200 he has 14 families that are terrified of him
and jessica and i we just couldn't do it anymore we had to get away from him to save our own lives
the decision on whether a polygamous mother can get her kids back did not come today heidi
mattingly is the wife of polygamist or one of the wives of polygamous john daniel kingston
daniel eventually took the stand and when he testified he couldn't even name all my mom's kids
you allegedly were supporting the 11 kids with a sack of potatoes and 400 bucks a month that and
and whatever else was necessary to support my children and heidi in whatever they would need
in the end jessica and i were finally able to get free from the order
heidi and daniel chose to relinquish their rights to us and the judge sent all the rest of the kids
back home on wednesday night john daniel kingston and family members found reason to celebrate when
a judge kept alive plans to reunite a number of his kids with their mother heidi mattingly
will you go to domestic violence counseling i will do whatever i need to do to be with
my family i told the truth i did everything i could to help them but it wasn't enough
and now here we are 12 years later my little sister she wants out
and i'm gonna do everything in my power to help her
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