DV DYNAMICS

1
DV DYNAMICS POLYGAMY IN UTAH

• AN OVERVIEW

2
THE LDS CHURCH

• Taught polygamy in Missouri and Illinois
• In 1847 moved west to get out of the United
  States
• Mexican War
• 1850 Utah became a U.S. Territory

3
Congress HasConstitutional Authority To Enact
Laws Governing Territories

• The Morrill Act (1862) made bigamy in a territory
  a crime punishable by a fine and five years in
  prison. (Few were prosecuted for bigamy because
  the government had difficulty obtaining testimony
  about plural wedding ceremonies.)
• The Poland Act (1874) revoked Utah county probate
  courts' jurisdiction in criminal and civil
  affairs with the exception of divorce cases.

4
REYNOLDS v US98 US 145 1878

• Laws are made for the government of actions, and
  while they cannot interfere with mere religious
  belief and opinions, they may with practices

5

• The Edmunds Act (1882), barred persons living in
  polygamy from jury service, public office, and
  voting. It also made bigamous cohabitation, a
  misdemeanor, which made prosecution much simpler
  since proving cohabitation was easy, and over
  1,300 Latter-day Saints were jailed as "cohabs"
  in the 1880s.
• The Edmunds-Tucker Act (1887)
• disincorporated both the Church and the Perpetual
  Emigration Fund on the ground that they fostered
  polygamy.
• revoked the probate courts' jurisdiction over
  divorces.
• authorized seizure of Church real estate not
  directly used for religious purposes, and
  acquired in excess of a 50,000 limitation
  imposed by the Morrill Act.

6
THE MANIFESTO

• September 24, 1890,
• President Wilford Woodruff,
• issued the Manifesto
• discontinuing the practice of plural marriage and
  
• formally stating his counsel to Latter-day Saints
  to abide by antibigamy laws (see DC Official
  Declaration1).

7

• Congress passed a final federal antibigamy
  provision in 1892, which excluded polygamists
  from immigration into the United States. This
  exclusion remains part of the U.S. Immigration
  and Naturalization Code.
• Utah added the antibigamy provisions into its
  state constitution as required by Congress for
  admission to the Union.

8
Utah Constitution Article III, Section 1

• FirstPerfect toleration of religious sentiment
  is guaranteed. No inhabitant of this State shall
  ever be molested in person or property on account
  of his or her mode of religious worship but
  polygamous or plural marriages are forever
  prohibited.

9

• THE FUNDAMENTALIST
• POLYGAMOUS CULTURE IS A HIGHLY PATRIARCHAL
  SOCIETY

10
TO A LARGE DEGREE POLYGAMY IS DRIVEN BY

• SEX
• CONTROL
• FEAR
• DOMINATION
• POWER
• MONEY

11
AND REMEMBER -

• POWER, CONTROL, DOMINATION FEAR ARE MAJOR
  FACTORS IN DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

12

• IT CAN LEGITMATELY BE ARGUED THAT THE POLYGAMOUS
  LIFESTYLE VICTIMIZES SOCIETY IN GENERAL THROUGH A
  WEAKENING OF THE INSTITUTION OF MARRIAGE, WELFARE
  FRAUD, TAX FRAUD, AND OTHER ABUSES OF GOVERNMENT
  SYSTEMS

13

• POLYGAMY ALSO VICTIMIZES INDIVIDUALS

14
DV dynamics similar to Polygamy dynamics

• Abusers control analysis (different tactics and
  violence used to reinforce power and control)
• Physical and sexual violence isolation
  emotional abuse intimidation, threats and
  coercion economic deprivation lesser status
  manipulation using kids blame, denial,
  minimization of abuse

15

• Entitlement of religious leaders
• Religious coercion
• Male privilege
• Limiting educational opportunities for girls and
  boys

16
(No Transcript)
17
Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints (FLDS)
18
Warren Jeffs, Rulon Jeffs, Fred Jessop
19
SHORT CREEK 1953 RAID
20
HILDALE/COLORADO CITY TODAY
21
JEFFS COMPOUND IN HILDALE, UTAH
22
SHORT CREEK TODAY
23
FLDS COMPOUND IN ELDORADO, TEXAS
24
FLDS COMPOUND IN ELDORADO, TEXAS
25
COMPOUNDS ALSO FOUND IN

• Mancos, CO
• Pringle, SD
• Mexico
• Canada

26
AMERICAS MOST WANTED CAUGHT.FINALLY!
27
STATE V RODNEY HOLM 2002

• Ruth Stubbs was born 7/21/82
• Father David Stubbs mother Sally Stubbs both
  fundamentalists and legally married to each
  other David had 2 additional plural wives but
  one left and one died. David Stubbs part of
  first lawsuit against FLDS Church successfully
  suing for property rights and now considered an
  apostate by FLDS
• Ruths education level 6 th grade
• Has 18 full-blood siblings

28

• When Ruth was 3 years old, 20 year old sister
  Susie legally married 19 year old Rodney Holm

29

• Rodney Holm was born 7/29/66 (twice the age of
  Ruth)
• His father, Carl, was one of the founders of the
  FLDS group
• Raised in polygamy
• Became a police officer in Arizona and
  cross-designated in Utah (so worked as police
  officer in Hildale and Colorado City)

30

• On 12/11/98, Ruth and Rod were wed (Ruth was 16
  Rod Holm was 32) after Rulon Jeffs told her she
  should marry him. Her sister, Susie, pressured
  Ruth against her mothers as well as another
  siblings wishes. Ruth immediately becomes
  pregnant. Ruth has 2 kids and pregnant with her
  3rd when she decides to flee in 2001.

31
Holm charged with Bigamy and with Unlawful Sexual
Conduct with a 16 or 17 year old
32
JURY FINDS HIM GUILTY IN 2003
33
Utah Supreme Court upheld conviction, 2006

• Court held that Holms behavior falls squarely
  w/in the realm of the States bigamy statute and
  that the protections enshrined in the federal
  constitution, as well as the state constitution,
  guaranteeing the free exercise of religion and
  conscience, due process, and the freedom of
  association do not shield Holms polygamous
  practices from state prosecution.
• The Court also found that the trial court
  appropriately exercised jurisdiction over the
  unlawful sexual conduct charges and that the
  states unlawful sexual conduct statute is
  constitutional.

34
Why people stay and obey the prophet in the FLDS

• The prophet decides who gets married as well as
  who gets more than one wife (need 3 to get to
  celestial kingdom)
• The prophet receives all tithing and can order
  extra payments whenever he needs the money
• The trust, which he headed until the court
  recently removed him as trustee, owned all the
  property in Hildale and Colorado City as well as
  most of the businesses

35

• The prophet is deemed to be the mouthpiece of
  God. Therefore, it is necessary to obey him for
  eternal salvation, no questions asked
• If a man falls out of favor with the prophet or
  questions or disobeys the prophet, the prophet
  can take away his wives and children and reassign
  them to another man. The man will lose his job
  because the FLDS controls all the jobs and he
  will lose his house because he doesnt own it.
  He loses EVERYTHING
• POWER, CONTROL, DOMINATION FEAR REIGN SUPREME

36
CENTENNIAL PARK,ARIZONAThe Second Warders
37
Broke away from the First Warders, the FLDS

• Believe and practice The Principle but this group
  not so strict. Dispute over tyrannical one man
  rule in 1984, which is why they broke away from
  the FLDS
• Hammon/Timpson Group split from FLDS 1985
• Right next to Colorado City in Arizona

38
CENTENNIAL PARK,ARIZONAThe Second Warders
LINDA EARLS HOME
39
LINDA EARL
Mother, plural wife, school teacher, college
graduate, advocate for polygamy
40
CRESTON BRITISH COLUMBIA
WINSTON BLACKMORE Excommunicated by Warren Jeffs
in 2002 and he now heads a splinter group
41
CRESTON BRITISH COLUMBIA FLDS group headed by
Jimmy Oler who was appointed by Warren Jeffs
after Blackmore exed
42
CRESTON BRITISH COLUMBIA
43
THE KINGSTON GROUPakaLATTER-DAY CHURCH OF
CHRISTTHE ORDERDAVIS COUNTY COOPERATIVE THE
CO-OP SOCIETY
44
THE KINGSTON GROUP
PAUL KINGSTON
45
THE KINGSTON GROUP

• Members located in
• Greater Salt Lake Valley
• Davis County
• Ibapah, Utah
• Portage, Utah
• Emery County, Utah
• Members and businesses located in 11 Western
  States

46

• Believe they carry the pure blood of Jesus and in
  order to continue, they intermarry (including
  incest) in order to keep the bloodline pure
• Vast holdings (real property, businesses, etc)
  nationally and internationally
• Working family members receive credits instead
  of money wages credits can be used at Kingston
  family businesses need permission to get money
  for outside purchases
• Fathers not financially responsible for
  children, mothers are
• Publicly the women claim to not be wives (and
  if acknowledge situation at all) claim to be
  merely ladies in a family unit headed by the
  father of their children thus claiming that they
  are not violating the bigamy laws

47
State v David Kingston case no 981915218

• John Daniel Kingston encouraged his daughter,
  Mary Ann, to marry her uncle, David,(becoming his
  15th wife) which is why she ran away and later
  received the beating from her father
• David charged in Salt Lake County with incest and
  unlawful sexual conduct with a 16 or 17 year old

48
Jury found guilty
49

• After spending some time in prison, David
  Kingston appeared before the Board of Pardons at
  his parole hearing and told them hed learned his
  lesson Board of Pardons later released him from
  prison and terminated their jurisdiction of his
  casehe was not ever placed on parole to ensure
  that he would not engage in similar behavior

50

• STATE V JOHN DANIEL KINGSTON Case No 981100400
• John Daniel Kingston charged with 2nd degree
  felony child abuse for beating his then minor
  daughter, Mary Ann, on or about 5/22/98 in Box
  Elder County, UT.
• Kingston plead No Contest to 3rd degree felony
  and was sentenced to 0-5 years USP suspended, 196
  days jail some of which may be suspended if
  Kingston makes a true apology to victim,
  restitution, probation to APP anger mgt course

51
STATE V JEREMY KINGSTON - 2003

• LuAnn Kingston (DOB 10/22/79) was Jeremys aunt
  as well as his first cousin (Jeremys mother and
  LuAnns mother are sisters Jeremys grandfather
  is LuAnns father)
• LuAnn was counseled by her religious leader to
  marry Jeremy married in religious ceremony on
  June 16, 1995 when LuAnn was 15 years old and
  Jeremy had just turned 24 she became his 4th
  wife
• LuAnn fled with her 2 children in May, 2000
• LuAnn had only 9th grade education

52
JEREMY KINGSTON HIS ATTY /UNCLE CARL KINGSTON
IN COURT INCEST CONVICTION - 2003
53
JOHN DANIEL KINGSTON AND HEIDI MATTINGLY
54
JUVENILE COURT CASE

• John Daniel Kingston DOB 5/13/55
• Heidi Mattingly (DOB 7/ 7/ 71) married JDK when
  she was about 16 years old Heidi was raised in
  the Kingston social and religious order even
  though her parents, themselves, were not
  polygamists. They have 11 children
• Two of their children, teenagers, S.K. and A.K.,
  were on the receiving end of JDKs wrath for
  getting their ears pierced in February, 2004.
• Fearing she would be physically injured, S.K.
  fled to a corner gas station and an employee
  called the police
• Another relative sought a protective order on the
  girls behalf and that launched an investigation
  by DCFS.

55

• Guardian ad Litems office filed petition for
  abuse and neglect in Juvenile Court on behalf of
  the Kingston kids
• Court found JDK Heidi abused and neglected
  their children and that Heidi appears to be a
  victim of domestic violence from JDK
• Both later relinquished parental rights to oldest
  2 children who have been adopted court returned
  8 kids to them (1 never removed)

56
MaryAnn Kingston v. Kingstons, et al civil
030917113 PI

• The suit, filed Aug. 1, 2003, in 3rd District
  Court, names more than 240 people and nearly 100
  businesses run by family members who make up the
  Latter-Day Church of Christ as defendants

57

• The suit's claims include intentional sexual
  abuse of a child intentional infliction of
  emotional distress on the part of Mary Anns
  father, uncle, immediate family members and the
  1,200-member clan itself and assault, battery
  and false imprisonment.
• Among other things, it seeks punitive damages of
  100 million and compensatory damages of 10
  million, along with payment for Mary Ann
  Kingston's medical and psychological treatment
  and legal fees

58

• Case recently dismissed by stipulation of the
  parties (2009)

59
APOSTOLIC UNITED BRETHERNTHE ALLRED GROUPor
the AUB
OWEN ALLRED
60

• Owen had assumed the leadership of the AUB after
  his brother, Dr. Rulon Allred, was murdered in
  1997, by members of the LeBaron group on orders
  of Ervil LeBaron

61
APOSTOLIC UNITED BRETHERN
LAMOINE JENSEN
62
APOSTOLIC UNITED BRETHERN

• Members located in
• Salt Lake Valley
• Rocky Ridge, Utah
• Granite Ranch, Utah
• Cedar City, Utah
• Pinesdale, Montana

63
Owen Allred and the The AUB have been sued civilly

• In 1997, Virginia Hill filed a multi-million
  dollar lawsuit against Allred, et al, claiming
  that the AUB conspired to steal money from her
  and that the church laundered thousands of
  dollars that belonged to her (1.54 million in
  cash). In 2003, the AUB was found liable but the
  case is not yet resolved, even today.

64
THE TRUE AND LIVING CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF
SAINTS OF THE LATTER DAYSTLC
JIM HARMSTON,
65
THE TRUE AND LIVING CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF
SAINTS OF THE LATTER DAYS

• Located in
• Manti, Utah
• Throughout the Sanpete Valley

66
THE TRUE AND LIVING CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF
SAINTS OF THE LATTER DAYS
67
THE TRUE AND LIVING CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF
SAINTS OF THE LATTER DAYS
68

• Harmston believes he is the reincarnation of
  several notable persons or entities. For
  example, Joseph Smith, the prophet Isaiah, King
  Arthur and William Wallace
• A couple of wives of Arvin Shreeve (Ogden case)
  went to Manti and became Harmstons wives after
  Shreeve was sent to prison
• All members are required to consecrate all
  earthly possessions to Harmston
• He has been successfully sued civilly for BREACH
  OF CONTRACT by Cindy Stewart who lost 10,000 and
  Utah artist, Kaziah Hancock, who lost 250,000.

69
CHURCH OF THE FIRST BORN
FRED COLLIER
70
CHURCH OF THE FIRST BORN

• Located in Hanna, Utah South America
• Collier claims to have taught the priesthood side
  of Mormonism to the Kingston group, Owen Allred
  and Jim Harmston
• He worked with Tom Green to smuggle microfilm of
  esoteric information out of the LDS Church
  archives

71
Church of the Firstborn of the Fullness of Times

• The LeBaron group aka the church of the lamb of
  God
• Ervil LeBaron fought with his brothers over who
  was the One Mighty and Strong
• Used violence and revenge against those Ervil
  felt had wronged him, including ordering the
  murder of his own brother
• Ervil died in USP prison after conviction for
  ordering the murder of Rulon Allred. He had 2
  of his wives carry out the murder one of them
  was acquitted and later wrote a book
  acknowledging her role in the murder
• Group still violent though loosely
  organized..some members recently put on MOST
  WANTED list

72
INDEPENDENT FUNDAMENTALISTS

• TOM GREEN CLAIMS TO BE THE HEIR TO THE
  PRIESTHOOD HELD BY ROSS LEBARON
• ROBERT FOSTER SMALL GROUP NEAR CANYONLANDS
  NATIONAL PARK
• THE ORDER OF AARON SMALL GROUP IN WESTERN JUAB
  COUNTY

73
INDEPENDENT FUNDAMENTALISTS

• NUMEROUS OTHER INDEPENDENT FAMILIES OR SMALL
  GROUPS SCATTERED THROUGHOUT UTAH, ARIZONA,
  COLORADO, IDAHO, AND NEVADA

74
Marry your wives young so you can train them the
way you want them

• Advice given by Tom Green to Jeremy Aldrich
• Polygamy Under Attack by John Llewellyn

75

• Green was convicted by jury of 4 counts of bigamy
  and 1 count of criminal non-support and appealed
  and UT Supreme Court affirmed conviction.
• The Rape of a Child count was tried separately
  before the judge and he was convicted.