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Karen's Autobiography

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I was born in the year of 1986 in the Salt Lake City, Utah area. My parents fallowed and were a part of a religious polygamy cult named the Fundimentalist Church of Ladder Day Saint, or better known as the FLDS. Most memebers of the cult lived in a small town they call Short Creek, on the Utah Arizona border.

My father had two wives. We called them Mother Karen, and Mother Marsha. Mother Karen was mybirth Mother. I was the seventh child of twenty children. We were required to fallow their very strict rules. No television, no radio, no public schools, no communication with anyone outside the religion. We were also required to wear long dresses, with long sleeves. It was considered a sin for a girl to talk to another boy, unless they were …show more content…

Then all our cousins would come over and we would barbeque, play tag, ride our bikes, and have water balloon fights, we werent allowed to wear swim suits either, so if you can imagine runing around in a long wet prairie dress, it is very hard. But the days were still fun and full of laughter. when it was dark we would all pile into our vehicles and drive to the local park. We'd lay out blankets to sit on and pass out the cruchy carmel popcorn we made earlier that day. then we'd sit and wait for the fireworks to start, they were some of the most beautiful firwork displays I ever saw!

This is how great my childhood was up until the year 2001 when the winter Olympic games were going to be in Salt Lake City. The Prophet of the FLDS told us that we could not live in Salt Lake City anymore bacuase the Olympics were bringing way to uch evil into the city. We had very short notice to move. One week later we were living in someone elses home, in Short Creek. Everything we knew before was gone. They started restricting more and more of our …show more content…

He put me in the back of his car and took me to the Youth Crisis Center. He told me I would be safe there for a few days while CPS did an investigation. While i was staying at the center I got to see somewhat what it was like to live in the outside world. They took me to a public high school, it was the first time I'd ever been inside a public school in my whole life. Te next day they had a childs advocate come visit me, I was so nervous, confused, scared, and felt so lost being in such a different world. I didnt even understand what she was saying to me bacause half of what she was saying was words i had never heard before. So i just agrred to everything she was saying and answered the best I could. We went to court a few days later, where I realized they were trying to keep me in state custody.I suddenly realized, I did not want that to happenI still want to be with my family very much I just did not want to be a part of the religion. The judge told me i should go back home and I was very happy he did.

The day I came home everyone was happy to see me and excited to have me back, but something just seemed off I knew something was wrong. My father was packing his things to move out. The Prophet had told him to move away and that he was not worthy of his family. This was the saddest day of my life. My fathers other wife, Mother Marsha and all her children were told to go live with her brother. I cried myself to sleep every night

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