Carolyn Jessop: “Escape” from polygamy in the US
Carolyn Jessop was once a member of a radical polygamist religious sect. She talks about her life as the fourth wife of a man decades older than her, living under the same roof as his other wives and children, and what spurred her to gather her eight children in the middle of the night and leave.
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