i just got a package from a stranger they want to share information about the order that's word of
church proceedings paul is the leader of the order if paul says something it's as if god himself is
here speaking to us it's important to remember that we do have a special birthright flynn and
i we just vowed to have my mom's house condemned i have to have a logical reason why the kids are
logical if she's not gonna leave on her own i want her kicked out of this house chanel's meeting me i
got a frantic call from melanie and her family is on to her we have to get her out tonight she's not
safe
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 salic valley they believe that in order to enter
the highest glory of god that they have to live a polygamous lifestyle
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 polygamy i want to
help other people realize they're not going to be punished for leaving the abuse and the pain
let's go we're leaving we should really get going
someone from the order is watching us oh we need to go now go go go hurry where's becky
hey thanks for coming i got a call from mark our cousin he wants to meet us okay
but he's working he drives truck so we're gonna have to meet him on the side of the road
okay last night our cousin mark who also left the order reached out to me and he wants our
help with something his mom kathy is my mom shirley's full sister maybe it has something
to do with kathy becky is old enough to get married now well that's what i'm wondering
hey cool truck yeah that is awesome so what's up well just trying to get my mom out
all we wanted for years is to get my mom out it's been real hard for her mentally because she's been
there for well 55 years you know when we finally got a place for her and she's willing to do it
good my aunt kathy is a first wife to robbie who's a numbered man so this is gonna be risky
a numbered man is an order guy who has been given a number paul who's the leader gives out the
numbers to the chosen men of the order if you're a numbered man in the order you have higher ranking
and more authority we're supposed to respect them and look at them as the patriarchs of the church
she has a lot more ties to him because she's a first wife do you think that he'd go
in and like try and take the kids oh yeah that's what she's afraid of because
he's got legal rights to the kids things are a little bit different because kathy is a first wife
and she's legally married to robbie and that didn't even cross my mind because my mom's a
seventh wife i'm not used to that you can't just leave when you got legal ropes on you you know
you've got kids with this guy he's on all of their birth certificates
how many kids does she still have at home she got five kids
five she's just worried about becky because she's 14. are there already people trying to court her
yeah that's just what she's worried about kathy has one daughter left that's not married
and she's 14 that's when they start courting them to try and get them married what girls
are in polygamy are baby makers they're property that you can trade off to make men more powerful
and that's more motivation to get out and get out now they're gonna fight for becky yeah she's
scared because we don't know really what's gonna happen i just need you guys there to come help us
kathy's escape is going to be more complicated she still has five kids living with her
and she lives in a canyon on order property surrounded by order people
there's one way in one way out this could be dangerous does anybody know that she's gonna
be moving nope that's good yeah just give us a time and a place and we'll totally be there
so i got the genealogy for all the kingston brothers
do you want to help me tape it up yeah start with paul he has the most wives of anyone do daniels
this is a lot to keep track of jessie's do david next david's out next door
there's so many people look at all these people
the order first began with eldon kingston when he passed away his brother ortel kingston
became the new leader ortel kingston had 13 wives his second wife ladonna kingston
was his favorite wife she had seven sons those sons run the kingston group today
paul kingston is the leader of the order the man on the watchtower
it is believed that between these seven brothers they have nearly 90 wives and of these wives many
of them are their half-sisters or nieces among the seven brothers alone there's over 850 children
this isn't even a fraction of the order these are our cousins and it's not even a fraction
of our cousins what's so gross is some of the people who are listed as like the wife here are
the kid here and the kid here like why don't you do a family tree because it's gonna go all over
so who's been saved he left
paul has a lot now he left that's true me us chanel pauline gerald marianne and melanie
there are some more impulse family that left
wow
what's so frustrating is you look at this and you think how many more of these people want
to get out and they just don't feel like they can because they're scared they're going to go to hell
tonight i'm meeting with my aunts kathy and susan to talk about kathy's plan to
escape susan already left the order now i'm hoping that kathy is ready to leave the order
how long ago was it when you knew that you wanted to leave
a long time ago a lot of years ago you young girls you're so lucky to get out before you have kids
i think the longer you're in there the harder it is to get out me i've got 53 years of brainwash
my name is kathy brown i'm 53 years old i was born and raised in the kingston group and
was there all of my life growing up in the order we were not encouraged to get an education we
were taught as young women that our main goal in life was to get married and have a family
i'm the first wife of robbie brown we have 16 children together in the order they teach you
have those babies every single year you have as many as you can just as fast as you can so that
the kingstons can build their empire my husband was 33 when he started courting the second wife
she was 12 and she was 14 when she married him and it just made me sick because she was still
a little girl i had kids that's just two years younger than her i stayed there because i thought
that i had to i thought that was my destiny and i remember feeling that the lord hated me
the lord must hate women to make them go through this to live plural marriage to live polygamy
how did she treat you when he married her no jeez if he wasn't at her house when she wanted
him to be she would come up to my house storm in and a lot of the time she physically attacked me
it just got worse and worse that happened so many times it almost became normal that was
the norm what was the worst thing that happened to your kids a lot of abuse a lot of physical abuse
it's bad
i should have left
i wish i could have that's that's the thing you wish you could have that's their
fear that they're putting into you yeah polygamy is horrible right now i am so thankful that i had
the boys that i had i mean out of 16 kids 12 of them are boys it's such a blessing
because they don't want the boys yeah so what made you finally decide to leave now
i'm afraid for my kids especially becky right now becky's the last one that's not married she's old
enough that they're gonna start preparing that's exactly why i have to get her out of there
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