dad has seen us all leave it did take me a while to finally decide to officially leave
and that was mainly because of mom my dad parole is blaming my mom for all of us leaving the order
how are we wrong my dad will definitely punish my mom by taking away her house
and making her move into a smaller place hey i think i saw your mom's green car she just left
okay guys we gotta hurry we gotta go
can you meet me at my mom's house she's getting kicked out
my mom shirley is the seventh of 14 wives to daniel kingston
when shirley allowed the conditions of her home to be filmed daniel was furious
we have some trespassers and there's going to be some real problems here
are we putting the piano yeah we're moving on we don't have time
it just feels like 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 14 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 polygamy
i want to help other people realize they're not going to be punished for leaving the abuse and the
pain jessica you there yeah we're surrounded by order houses ordering on the right order member
on the left or remember in front of her the entire order has eyes on her watching her constantly they
really have her packed in here go go go go i'm nervous all right you guys just be safe i got
people all over the place out here someone is going to get called at this point all that matters
is that we can get lori out of there mom we should leave now now we got everybody in the neighborhood
looking we need to go now she's calling somebody so she is an order member she's calling people
oh that's order that's an order member i think we've been caught oh god
this place looks good i know it's super cute yeah
hey andrea jessica oh hey hey how are um i am not going to be able to stay
what's going on um i just got a message from my mom and it says that she it's really important
that she needs to see me as soon as possible and she wants to meet on her lunch break right now
my mom is married to burl who is considered one of the hierarchy of the church she's the second
wife and she has 10 children with him four of my mom's 10 children have left the order
i left the kingston group a few years ago and since then my sister cami left and we
helped my sister rachel leave and then we all helped our little brother esque leave the order
and every time a child leaves the order cracks down more and more in my mom
oh that's mom hello does it feel better oh i still want to be a part of the family
it could be possible that she got in trouble since esco left and she needs help so she's
saying she needs to meet you on her lunch break so that sounds secretive exactly this sounds like
her trying to get up in this little time slot that she has yeah like she's sneaking out uh-huh
well just stay safe and don't meet her anywhere where people will see you uh-huh
call us when you're done okay okay goodbye
in the order you're told your whole life that you're blessed with this family but if one of
those members decides not to follow the herd then that's their choice and we cut them off
they're not your family anymore just pretend that they're dead my mom tried to follow the rules but
she said she couldn't do it instead of listening to the order leaders she snuck off to see us
it has put her in a place where the entire order has eyes on her watching her constantly
so i don't feel like my mom would meet up with me if there wasn't a big deal going on there she is
hi what's up i need to talk to you about some stuff what stuff i think i'm ready to leave the
order i'm done it's time to make this move it's scary but i'm ready i need to do this amazing
my name is lori and i am a member of the kingston organization
i am a second wife in a polygamous relationship my husband has three wives
i've been married for 25 years i had 10 beautiful children ranging from 22 to 3 years old
i didn't grow up in the order but my sister was a part of the kingston group eight years prior
before i was married she was like a mother to me my mom walked out of her life when i was nine and
she took the role of a mother and she really felt strongly that i needed to be a part of her family
she would tell me that she felt like if i didn't do this then i would lose my eternal salvation
my sister has 15 children with my husband i have 10 children with my husband
and the third wife has six children
i see my husband every third night the other two nights that i'm not with my husband it's
really hard it's sometimes devastating and you're lonely it's difficult because you have to watch
him walk out door and go somewhere else and that's hard to take it's really hard thinking
about my husband with another woman i have to blank that out because it's too hard and
having it be that it was my sister was even harder you just sometimes think you wish you could just
wake up from that bad dream because you just wish you could just you know just be yours
being in polygamous family is very hard on the children because
the relationship they want to have with their dad just can't be there
if you weren't a first wife then you weren't able to put father's name on the first certificates
then the kids they weren't allowed to acknowledge their father as daddy or you know they always was
called him by his name there's not that love that you wanted so bad to have in a family that unity
that real family unity and with my older kids they've all chosen to not be a part of plugme
this religion just didn't do it for us i mean the polygamous lifestyle when my children started
leaving one by one that was the last draw for me because anybody that tells you that your family is
no longer your family that's not of god that's not a religion to me if you leave and take the kids
how do you think rey is gonna feel it'll be really hard to leave my son but ray's not coming with me
you