It was a marriage arranged by her father, and Rachel first met Rich the day before her wedding. Rachel married her husband Rich when she was just 18. It was an abandonment and isolation that Rachel would experience when she, too, was taken away from her children for perceived transgressions. At that time, her mother’s younger children were taken away from her when she needed them most. “I blame Father for making my mother’s life so miserable at the end,” Rachel said. Two years passed from the time she found her first lump to when Warren Jeffs allowed her to go to the doctor, but by then it was too late. It is that kind of control that took the life of Rachel’s mother at the young age of 39 from breast cancer. One of the rules of the cult was that no one could seek medical help without Warren Jeffs’ permission.

“I just made the best of it,” said Rachel, who was taught that those on the “outside” were evil. Although Rachel knew he was not the Prophet he claimed to be, she loved her family and did not know how she would ever make a life for herself in the outside world. 1 rule of the FLDS church was never to question the Prophet. After all, who could preach about not letting boys touch you until you are married and then turn around and do such horrible things to his own daughter? But the No. She knew the man she still refers to as “Father” was not a good man.

The abuse stopped when Rachel was 16 after she wrote her father a letter confronting him of his transgressions. He began to sexually abuse his daughter when she was 8 years old. “He kept me with him the most,” said Rachel, adding that it was for all the wrong reasons. Rachel is the third of Warren Jeffs’ 53 children and is said to have been his favorite. Rachel’s life is documented in her recently released book, “Breaking Free.” Warren Jeffs is now serving a life sentence for the abuse he inflicted on children, marrying girls as young as 12 years old. That is exactly what Rachel Jeffs endured until she and her five children were finally able to escape the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS) led by Rachel’s father, Warren Jeffs, the self-proclaimed Prophet who received worldwide notoriety as the leader of the polygamous cult. Then, envision being separated from your children and living in isolation for months at a time. But imagine being told your entire life what you must eat, how you must dress-right down to which arm you put through your sleeve first-whom you will marry and what you name your children. If you are a parent, you know you would do anything for your child. Rachel Jeffs and her five children escape a polygamous lifestyle and her father, Warren Jeffs

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