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About Escaping Polygamy
A&E Network's original docuseries "Escaping Polygamy" returns for a powerful third season following Andrea, Jessica and Shanell, three sisters who escaped polygamy in their youth and now devote their lives to helping others get out and successfully begin new lives away from the only world they have ever known. Season three premieres Monday, August 7, 2017 at 10PM ET/PT on A&E.
Andrea, Jessica and Shanell daringly left the Kingston clan, a polygamous group based in Salt Lake City, Utah, known as "The Order." Since escaping the polygamous cult, the sisters have devoted their lives to helping friends and strangers alike do the same. The path out of polygamy is not an easy one for those who choose to leave, from the often dangerous initial escape, to the struggle to adjust to a life isolated from their friends and family still in polygamy. As more polygamous sects become aware of the girls' mission, these challenges have become even greater. Groups have tightened the hold over their followers making successful escapes more dangerous.
This season, the many people who enlist help from the girls include a son of powerful FLDS prophet Warren Jeffs who leaves the religion to find his mother who he has been separated from for most of his life; a mother hoping to find her daughters who have been hidden within an elite group in the FLDS community; and a young girl who desperately wants to rescue the love of her life in a dangerous mission that further exposes the dark and treacherous realities of polygamy.
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Escaping polygamy love it
Great show people have no idea how miserable these women’s lives are. They are so brainwashed and uneducated and treated like breeding mares and comodity. We hear about women from other countries that are brought here as sex slaves. Well this is no different so why is it that social services doesn’t monitor these women. I know it must be so hard to find the courage to leave when this is all they know. I praise the work of these young women but they need help. This is not religion it is a cult and a very cruel one. We desperately need a service that handles cults and provides security and counseling and monitoring. These men should not be allowed to get away with this. I encourage these women to appeal to Congress for better laws and help for the women.
Please bring escaping palogamy back.. It gives people knowledge of stuff We don’t know about very educational.. PLEASE U also can’t leave me hanging The man with Parkinson disease What hapoend To that man_?? The lady that was in the order working to help break them She never showed herself like she promised
BRING THE SHOW BACK U WILL GET THE RATINGS
I hear ya I love this show and I’m wondering the same, it left off to where the girl was gonna show herself n leave, but backed out at the end. Then it left us hanging of what’s going on.
Please bring this show back it very educational kids need to know.
Please do not cancel escaping the polygamy I love this TV show it give me knowledge about what’s going on in the world please do not Cancel it I would love to see a season three in 2017 and it also gives knowledge to the Young kids
Great show. Love it. Please renew Season 3. Please. Please
PLEASE renew escaping polygamy for season 3!!!!!
Please bring Escaping Polygamy season 3 on A&E! I love this show! Those are brave girls trying to help others in the cult. get out! I want to watch season three! Thanks!!
I hope you don’t cancel Escaping Polygamy , the show helps the world and young girls and boys get a better understanding about what happens cults like this and what really happens if you are a part of it. This show could potentially help save the lives of children today that are considering joining groups like this !
Please bring this show back for season 3. I just recently started watching it and I love this show and what it teaches us in the world what is really going on and hopefully stop this from cont
Bring this show back!!!!! It’s the real world and what happens unlike some shows that are on. And I won’t name them but yet they have been on for years. Please bring this show back on!!!! I support this show 110%.
Love be the show do much I wish they will bring it back on
Sorry love this show so much
Please bring back Escaping Polygamy.
Please renew Escaping polygamy It is a great show,that helps people ,makes you feel so close to all the women in the show. We looked forward to it every week. I feel so sorry for people caught in this cult.Its so hard to believe that the police don’t help these people more. All of you are so brace and sincere.Keep up the great work you do.Take care of each other and be happy with your lives you have worked so hard for. So glad the truth is finally coming out.
Please bring escaping paligay back. The were a couple of cliffhanger-type episodes ( the man with Parkinson’s that the cult had left to die, and the person inside. I need to know what happens and also what happened to Lizzie from the FLDS group who tried to escape with her daughter but went back. She was really treated like nothing by her husband, the cult and her daughter. Also is the daughter of the FLDS group that escaped going to find her sister and get her out?
These cults have a couple of thousand Jaycee Lee Dugards in the custody of hundreds of Phillip Garridos with no Rebecca Baileys to clean up the mess. The only difference between these girls and Jaycee is they were born into captivity not kidnapped into it. They did not chose that life any more than she did. Their brainwashed parents, at one time victims themselves are coconspirators In their abuse and exploitation. Keep in mind that they have been kept isolated all their lives and don’t have fantast idea what’s going on in the real world. Like Jaycee they have been fed a steady diet of highly deceptive and manipulative misinformation. Much of it unrealistic unsupported ultra extreme religious rhetoric and threats. Just to name a few they believe Warren Jeffs is the president of the united states and is going to get out of jail tomorrow. They believe they are immune to the effects of inbreeding. They don’t believe man ever stepped foot on the moon and NASA doesn’t exists. They have intentionally introduced phobias, fear and shun outsiders, the internet and every other form electronic or printed communication. With no alternative point of view they can be told just about anything and they will believe it. They are unlikely to ask for help.
SEE: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kidnapping_of_Jaycee_Dugard
Unlike Jaycee when they escape polygamy they lose their family not get them back. They do not get a penny from the state and are totally on their own to sink or swim. They all have issues, face seemingly insurmountable challenges and are in need of counseling. These Escapes are not always successful. Sometimes the dragon wins. Some girls make repeated unsuccessful escape attempts. Some file for emancipation and are denied. Some take their own lives. Some who have access to information about tax fraud , welfare fraud, money laundering and hidden assets try to take down the organization from inside, by supplying it to the government. Some run away and are returned to the cult, which has custodial rights yielded to them by their parents. This effectively makes them the property of the cult. They all suffer in silence and fear.
There are two main groups the FLDS(Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints) headed by The Profit Warren Jeffs(serving life +20), in the south and a splinter group called The Kingston Group or The Order headed by The Profit Paul Kingston(under investigation), around Salt Lake city. These two should share a cell with Philip and Charlie. I wonder how they would get along. Both groups are the subject of a variety of federal and a few state investigations for many violations and have many members in jail or on the run. Despite that most of what they do goes uninvestigated. There are also many civil suits and uncollected judgments pending against them as well. You would be amazed at what goes on in these groups. Both groups tell their members that gods law is above man’s law so they above the law. They are descended directly from god and there for superior to mere mortals like us(gentiles). Many people view these groups as organized crime syndicates not churches. Paul Kingston being called the John Gotti of religion. You will have to decide for yourself what they are.
The children are exploited in every way that children can be exploited, sexily, fanatically, genetically, nutritionally, educationally and neglected. They face a life of malnutrition and food shortages, due to the size of their family. They receive absolutely no support from the father, who has a dozen or so wives and a dozen or so kids buy each one. At age 8-13 they are sent to lying school to be taught to shun or lie to everyone outside the cult especially non cult police, social workers and welfare workers. At 12 to 13 the girls plan their wedding to an assigned on short notice husband, usually an uncle 30 years there senior or a cousin who may already have multiple wives. If they resist they are sometimes beaten by their own father. They may be reassigned at a later date. All cult members are already 5th or 6th generation inbred. Miscarriages, stillbirths and horrible birth defects are not uncommon and becoming more common with each generation. Fumarase syndrome “Polygamist Down’s “a condition that primarily affects the nervous system, especially the brain, occurs so infrequently that fewer than 50 cases have been documented worldwide. Yet there are somewhere between a dozen and 20 children suffering from the metabolic disease and a growing number of cases of rare genetic disorders in the polygamous community on the Utah-Arizona border that causes severe mental retardation. Affected infants may have an abnormally small head size “microcephaly”, abnormal brain structure.
Many of the babies have very short lives. If they live to see their first birthday their falsified birth certificates are filed(in Angel and Starlet’s case none at all). At a minimum the father’s name is ether blank or factious. If the mother was underage her name and/or the birth date might be as well. Unlawfully falsified to protect the cult and the parents from charges of truancy, child labor law violations, incest, polygamy, rape, statutory rape and lack of child support. By 15 or sometimes earlier they are out of school and are working long hours at subminimum wages or script if they are paid at all. Many girls have been repeatedly molested buy their husbands to be. Viewed as breading stock, by 16 or maybe sooner they are celestial or spiritual(not legally married) wives, pregnant, working for a cult owned business and are expected have a child every year from then on. This is how the Mormon church and the cults built their numbers into what they are today. They claim to double in size every year and expect to take over North America. With their incredible birth rate they might do just that. Although their numbers increase every year they get weaker genetically. Unless they improve their genetic diversity they may ultimately find out their not immune to god’s laws of inbreeding and destroy themselves.
https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/tiny-tombstones-inside-the-flds-graveyard-for-babies-born-from-incest
I don’t know what these girls did to deserve to be born into a polygamist cult. Maybe they’re not righteous enough to be endowed by their Creator with unalienable Rights. They certainly do not have Liberty they, may not refuse sex, may not communicate outside the cult, may not own anything and do not have freedom of speech. They are not free. The police in short crick will not help these girls. All police are members of the cult and totally corrupt. If Jaycee had been born in to one of these cults she would still be behind walls destitute, without hope of rescue and her daughters would face the same. No one in the cult is allowed to communicate with the outside world, no TV, newspaper, internet, books magazines, etcetera. Of course like Jaycee there are lots of walls and fences. Walls, cameras and the god squad(vigilantes) are every ware to make sure there is no communication with the outside world. They are kept totally isolated. If they had knowledge of the outside world they might be tempted to make decisions in their own best interest. Heaven forbid such a thing.
While the high ranking members, the Philip Garados of the church(cult) get fresh cute young naive wives every year or so. There aren’t enough left for the lower ranking men. The surplus boys are apostatized(banished), destitute, uneducated, sometimes illiterate, shun by family and friend alike, warned never to step foot on church(cult) property again or else. Exceptions are made if they can buy their way back in($5,000 or so) and/or bring a fresh wife in from outside the cult. A least until they get kicked out again and their wife reassigned to a higher ranking member. The high ranking elite members live a luxurious life style with all the sex, money and power that their hart could desire while the lower ranking members go hungry, especially the children.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/jun/14/usa.julianborger
Reform looks unlikely. Without outside intervention I don’t see it happening. 62.2 percent about two thirds of population and two thirds of the electorate of Utah is Mormon. Which means The Mormon church, which operates behind closed doors is the government without any form of checks and balances. The equivalent of one party rule. The Mormon church receives 10% of the memberships income, about $7 billion a year. Plus interest on previous years income. No elected official can attain or stay in office without at least their tacit approval. Although the Mormon church under duress renounced, at least publicly polygamy in 1890 it uses and has used the same tactics to grow into what it is today. They are not going to give up even a small portion of the money and power they have just because of a few thousand abused and hungry children. They may still have soft spot in their heart for polygamy and all the evils that go with it. They are not motivated to enforce existing law or eliminate loopholes written into it. Children don’t vote or make campaign contributions.
To reform these groups the first thing you would have to do would be to amend all the falsified birth certificates. That would mean almost cult wide DNA testing. Second close loopholes in those laws to make them enforceable. Penalties and resources would have to be sufficient to ensure compliance. Third corrupt law enforcement and public officials would have to be replaced with non cult or corrupt motivated people. That would allow enforcement of child abuse, truancy, child labor, incest, rape, statutory rape and child support laws. Forth new legislation would need to be passed to stop other abuses. To get that passed it would have to be carefully worded as to not affect or offend the Mormons. Convince them of such and that still that might not be enough.
Mandatory strongly enforced k-12 education equal to rest of the nation with emphases on curriculum pertinent to their living circumstances, that the cults hide from their children now, refuting misinformation, ending the isolation, real world life experiences, unfettered flow of information by all media and alternate points of view would go a long way to allow self determination and human rights. Cult misinformation would have to refuted with well supported and researched arguments. Cult or parental attempts to influence, change or censer the curriculum would have to be met with stiff adversarial unyielding opposition and aggressive well prepared and researched rebuttal in an attempt to influence them. The school would have to provide three balanced meals a day, health care, investigative and social services. Truancy enforcement would have to be swift and strong. If they all had this the cult would eventually be forced to moderate it’s behavior.
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I do enjoy this show and hope it will be back on soon. It’s a learning experience and we all can stand to learn more.
I wish they would bring this show back! I never missed an episode!
I also enjoy this show. My best friend ran off with a polygamist when we were sophomores in high school. he was our study hall teacher ! After 10 years and 2 children she finally left. I visited a couple of times and her husband did not like me as I would not convert to his twisted life style. His youngest wife at the time was 16 and had a total of 15wives ! Thank God she was able to leave and is now in a normal monogamous marriage.