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[Rachel] I was born
to Warren Jeffs.

The sexual abuse started
when I was 8.

Even with all the truths
put out about Warren,

he still has followers.

[Nate] The thing the trial
really didn't get at

was what were other men
doing in the group.

A guy named Sam Bateman
just popped up

and declared himself
the prophet.

There's some really bad things
happening

and something has to be done.

[Matt] And now all of sudden,
next thing you know

kids are missing
and we have no idea

what's going on with them.

[phone ringing]

[Matt] What can I do for you?

[Officer] Put your hands
behind your back.

I just can't fathom how a father
could give his baby girls

to a predator like that.
I can't fathom it.

[Matt] My name is Matt Browning.

I'm a retired law enforcement
out of Arizona.

I was on both
the Joint Terrorist Task Force

and the Fugitive Task Force,
with the FBI.

But most importantly,
I'm a husband and a father.

And I was born and raised
a member

of the Church of Jesus Christ
of Latter Day Saints.

A few years ago, my wife Tawni
and I were contacted

by women who wanted help
leaving polygamous groups.

Since then we've been contacted
numerous times

by people asking for help.

Some of these groups
have a history

of incest and child abuse.

And are thriving right here
in the United States.

People need to know about this.
That's why we do what we do.

A few years back,

I had the opportunity
to meet some girls

that were part of
polygamist groups.

I was able to talk to them
about the different things

going on
within these organizations.

Crimes such as the, the rapes,
the pedophilia,

the underage marriages,
um, the incest.

I helped some of these women
get out of polygamy

and since that time,
in helping them,

my name has gotten out
and I've been able to help more

and I've been getting
more information

on what's going on
within polygamy.

[Nate] The group that eventually
became the FLDS

settled in a place
called Short Creek

on the Utah Arizona line.

One thing you see
across the polygamist groups

is they seek out isolation
to some extent,

in part because they distrust
governments.

And so they tend to kind of
settle in places

where they can have
their own community.

You talk to former members
of the FLDS

and a lot of them will tell you

that, once upon a time,
it was a good society.

They were all geared
toward the same goal

of creating a kingdom on earth
for when Christ returned.

There wasn't a dictatorship,

the way there became
under the Jeffs.

Once Warren comes to power,

Warren was, you know,
specifically telling people

which houses they could live in,

what he expected
out of businesses.

You know, he was basically
taking any woman

he wanted, or girl, to marry.

He's evicting men
that he saw as disloyal

or some kind of threat
to his political power.

And, there were,
were new accusations

of, uh, men, particularly Warren
marrying underage girls.

Then Warren went on the run.

And so there was
a big announcement

that Warren was now
a 10 most wanted fugitive

on the FBI's list.

I remember thinking the thing
the trial really didn't get at

was what were other men doing
in the group.

I mean, how many other
underage brides were there,

underage mothers were there
within the FLDS.

Even though Warren is locked up
serving a life sentence,

he is still the president
on the incorporation papers

for the Fundamentalist Church
of Jesus Christ

of Latter Day Saints.

So he still has a following.

He still has people
who believe in him.

[Matt] So, when Warren
got locked up,

the whole church actually
kind of was in limbo.

They still believed Warren
was running the church

from inside prison,

but also different people
were fighting for power

and a guy named Sam Bateman
just popped up

and declared himself
the prophet.

Within these
extreme organizations,

if you are so set
on going to heaven

and your prophet leaves
or is in prison,

you need to find another prophet

because they are the only ones
that can get you to Heaven.

So Sam Bateman easily
inserted himself

in this whole power vacuum.

So what we know
about Sam Bateman

is that he grew up in the FLDS.

He was nowhere even close
to being in the leadership

within the church

and he just declared himself
the prophet.

Sam was pulled over, up around
Flagstaff, Arizona up north

and he was driving a truck
with some teenage women

that claim to be his wives,

but he was pulling a trailer

and in the trailer
was some underage girls.

[Police] Put your hands
behind your back.

Put your hands behind your back.

[music]

Something Warren Jeffs
and Sam Bateman have in common

is they both faced charges
related to child abuse.

The reason why we are looking
at people

who are already locked up
like Warren and Sam Bateman

is because both Warren and Sam
have people on the outside

who do the things
that they are told to do.

Usually Tawni's phone goes crazy
with people wanting help

leaving the FLDS

but lately the phone calls
we've been getting

are from people
who have already left

the FLDS church
but now they want help

finding their kids
that have gone missing.

[phone ringing]

What can I do for you?

And how many children
are we talking?

Now, I have moms and dads
who can't sleep at night

because they don't know
where their kids are.

I think that a lot of it
has to do with these, you know,

revelations that are coming
from Warren Jeffs.

These revelations
are coming from Warren Jeffs

who is in prison and there going
to his son Helaman

who then distributes them
throughout the church.

So one thing that Warren Jeffs
is putting out there

is that we need to gather up
all these children

from their apostate parent

and re-indoctrinate them all
within the FLDS.

Now what I have to do is go talk
to the people

that can point me
in the right directions

and the best person
that I know of

that I can talk to
is Rachel Jeffs.

Rachel Jeffs
is Warren Jeffs' daughter.

Rachel's story is amazing
and she definitely is a survivor

Rachel and Helaman
grew up together.

The difference is Rachel left
the FLDS group

while Helaman stayed.

When she left Polygamy,
she spoke up.

She's one of those that spoke up
and because of that,

she became almost like
an activist

for the FLDS community.

There's nobody that knows FLDS
like Rachel.

I want to know if Rachel's
heard anything

about what her brother
and father are doing,

and if it's got anything
to do with these missing kids.

We're headed
to Rachel Jeffs' house

in Northern Idaho, just south
of the Canadian border.

Rachel is the strong one
that left FLDS

because she's really
speaking out

about the things
that have happened to her

in her life and --
and the things that go on

still within
the FLDS communities.

She's written a book,
Breaking Free,

and she's talking
about her family.

Her family is doing bad things,
and she wants it to stop.

And I think people are coming
forward now

because they're tired of kids
getting hurt.

Rachel's brother, Helaman
Helaman Jeffs, Warren's son

has kind of taken up
the reins and is,

for lack of a better word,
Warren's mouthpiece

outside of the prison system.

Warren Jeffs is in prison
for the rest of his life.

While Warren is still running it
from inside his cell,

Helaman is actually
receiving revelations

from Warren
and distributing them

to the faithful members
of the FLDS community.

But then you have Sam Bateman
who wants to be the leader

and has caused a split
within the FLDS community.

So now you have one organization
that has split into two

because of two battling
prophets.

So, I would think
that there's nobody

that knows Helaman Jeffs
better than Rachel

because Rachel is his sister.

[music]

What I'm looking for
with Rachael and Brandon

is picking their brains on what
they've heard

and what they know.

So, hopefully, we can come up
with an idea

of where these kids
are being taken.

-Hey, how's it going?
-[Brandon] What's up, man?

-[Matt] How are you?
-[Brandon] Not bad,

good to see you.

[Matt] You gotta give me a hug.
Sorry.

How have you guys been?

- [Rachel] Good.
-[Matt] Good?

Getting on the backside
of winter.

Get on the backside?
You heard about Sam, right?

-Sam Bateman?
- Yeah.

And he's sitting in jail
down in Phoenix,

but seems like he's back
to the same old thing.

You have some people
who are hurting kids

and marrying off young kids.

So, I was wondering
about what Helaman was doing.

My theory behind why Helaman is
where he's at,

is over time Warren's own group
was starting to fragment

pretty bad.

Different little groups
are popping up

and Sam Bateman
being one of them.

He claims well, Warren's
dead now, I'm the leader.

So, Warren in response to that

appointed his own subordinate,

which was Helaman Jeffs,
his son.

He's like, "No,
this is actually the guy

that's doing
what I want him to do"

And he uses him as a puppet
to rally his troops.

[Rachel And I think
even Helaman did that.

He's like, "Oh, we were
losing everybody.

So, now we got to gather them
back up."

Okay. Now, that's extremely
interesting.

[Rachel] I was born to Warren
Jeffs and Barbara Barlow.

They're my parents.

We lived in polygamy.

My dad had several wives.
So, we had lots of siblings.

We were taught that, you know,
we had to look different

than the world to prove
that we are different.

Dresses came up to our necks,
ankle length.

We had to keep our hair braided.

Men, of course,
kept their bodies covered too.

It's like we're
the priesthood people.

We're a part of the church
and the wicked people

were considered Gentiles,
what we call Gentiles.

If you weren't in our church,
you are a Gentile.

We were going to heaven,
they were going to hell.

To me, this was normal.

We believed it because,
you know, who loves you more

than your parents,
you believe your parents.

So, you just don't know
any different.

[Matt] Has Warren always
been hurting kids

since he was in command or rule?

I believe
he has been hurting kids

since he was a kid probably.

-[Matt] Really?
-Yeah. I mean,

the more I find out about,
you know, the more people,

as his sisters and stuff
that have talked to me

and the more stories
that come out.

[Matt] He hurt you when you were
a kid, when you were little.

Yeah.

The sexual abuse started
when I was eight

and, you know,
I was very scared.

I remember the very first time,
it was very shocking.

I just remember going to bed
crying and thinking,

what did I do bad
that made him do that, you know.

He kept me with him all the tie
and if I ever asked,

can my like,
my same sister Becky,

I'd say can, "Becky come
with me?" or something.

He'd be so angry at me

and so then the family
would treat me bad

because he was treating me bad.

And so then nobody would talk
to me

and it was very lonely
and painful.

The sexual abuse happened
till I was 16.

So, I kind of learned
to please him

so that the rest of the family
would treat me good.

And that's how he makes you feel
like you did something wrong

so I'm going to do this to you.

May I ask you a question
and promise

that you're not going to get mad
at me. Okay, you promise?

I don't ever get mad.

[Matt] Okay. Why didn't you
call the police?

[Rachel] We were taught
all our lives

that the cops were going
to hurt us

or the cops are out to get us.

So, I mean that was
the last thing you do.

When Warren separated me
from my kids several times,

he'd say, "Rachel, you just have
to go away for a week."

But then he wouldn't
let me return for months.

[music]

One time while I was separated,
when I got back,

my baby didn't remember me
and I was just so angry

at father and I even wrote
to him and told him,

I was just so upset at him.

It's like you're on detention
and you're in prison,

You're in this house
by yourself.

You're supposed to sew
every day.

Warren did this to all his wives
and his girls and his sons.

Even 12 year olds
got put in houses

all by themselves
with nothing but to sew.

My sister, he had set her away,
to live alone and she called me.

And she's like,
"Rachel, you know what father

did to you
when you were little."

I was like, "How did you know?"

And she's like, "Because
he did it to me too."

[Matt] He hurt you
when you were little?

[Rachel] Yeah.

And that went on
for how many years?

For 8 years.

[Matt] So you were alone?

Well, you know, I thought I was.

When my sister told me
about the sexual abuse,

I was angry
that he did it to her.

But more than anything,
the very big truth

smacks you in the face, almost

that it wasn't
because of something that I did

that made him do this to me,
it was him.

You know, I was--
that was a huge moment.

You know, we talked all night
on the phone

and we both decided that night,
we are going to leave someday.

We didn't decide that we're
going to leave that day,

but we knew we're going
to leave the church.

[music]

He was in prison,
but he required other men

to marry underage girls too.

I remember him
telling this one man

that he had to marry
a 14-year-old.

You know, I just thought
to myself, father can hurt me,

but he -- I'm not going
to let him hurt my kids.

Then I just felt like, I'm not
going to put up with this.

In the FLDS, most of the people
didn't know

he had married underage girls.

And I think for a lot of us --
a lot of people

didn't even know
that was illegal.

Even with all the truths put out
about Warren,

he still has followers.

There's still people listening
to him

and they still carry out
his word

and it's just crazy
that it still happens.

[music]

These kids have never seen
their father

or talked to him since.

I mean, that was very,
also very difficult

because I grew to love him.

To look back at the memories

especially, like to look
at pictures of like my mom,

that's just so emotional,
super emotional.

I think I bury some of that
just because it's super painful.

It really wasn't until I left
that I realized as a child,

my father could have gone
to prison for what he did to me

and that was
very empowering to me.

I believe it's been a cult
all along.

I feel like this system
was all about men

wanting to have sex
with multiple women

and justifying it
through religion.

And they know that.

[Matt] Are you happy now?

You know, I am.

-Are you happy now?
-[Brandon] I am.

[Matt] And why are you happy?

Because we're free.

How'd you guys meet?

[Brandon] Actually,
through my brother.

He suggested I should talk
to her

and so I did and that's kind of
what kicked it off.

[Rachel Yeah, I think we both
had tough experiences

and I think we understood
each other, you know.

[Brandon] My name
is Brandon Blackmore.

I was born and raised
in the FLDS

in Canada, British Columbia.

I had 21 brothers
and 16 sisters.

We were busy building
these log cabin kits

for Warren Jeffs.

I ran a log lathe so, I was
very involved with building

all the log cabin kits.

On April 3rd, 2008, the YFZ
Ranch in, in San Angelo, Texas

was raided by law enforcement
after they received

an anonymous tip
of a girl being raped.

[Brandon] I knew nothing
about it

until the raid happened in 2008.

Me and several of my brothers

and a lot of the Canadian
members

were building the log cabins
and sending them down there,

but I had no idea
where they're going.

It was even whispered around,
you could find out

on the internet,
but we weren't supposed

to look on the internet.

We just weren't privy to that.

[music]

She disappeared in 2004.
She was 13 at the time.

What we were told is that
she was on a mission

and so, it was just like,
you don't ask,

you don't need to know.

The one thing that came out
of that raid

that was quite pivotal to me
is a claim

that underage marriages
were happening.

She reappeared in 2008,
came back to Canada.

And so the time went on,
I wondered if she was married

to Warren, and she told me
that, yeah she got married

the same day I got married
when she was 13.

And so that immediately, I now
had proof positive in my mind

that I've been lied to.

That was a very, very big deal
to me

as my foundation that I thought
was secure, wasn't.

That's not why I worked
my entire life for this.

I don't support this.

[Matt] Let's talk about the kids
that are missing.

How did you guys hear about it?

I've had parents
that are ex-FLDS

that their kids are still there
message me and say,

you know,
my daughter disappeared,

my underage daughter
disappeared,

or brothers say my sister
has disappeared.

Rachel, what can we do?

And their -- their concern
was that they were going to get

married underage or get sucked
back into all that stuff

with Warren Jeffs
and all the stuff he's doing.

What do you think is happening
with the kids?

I think they're just trying
to seclude them

for one thing,
keeping them away from --

They keep them brainwashed.
I mean--

Boys, I would -- I would imagine
they're making them work.

They'd be working
on whatever job site.

But the girls are typical,
just--

Just raise them up
and have them get married.

I don't know.

Yeah, we-- we don't know.

Here you have Helaman who's
sending out Warren's stuff.

Kids are-- kids are missing.

Have you heard any
recent instances

of FLDS going
to any newer properties?

In North Dakota
from what I've heard.

But do you know what part
of North Dakota they're in?

[Rachel] I just know they're up
by the Canadian border.

I've never been there
so, I can't say exactly.

I just-- I just was told
it was by the border.

[Matt] So some people
within the FLDS

are headed up to North Dakota.

Do you think it's possible
that some of the kids

that are reported missing
could be going up there too?

[Brandon] Maybe or just
with different families.

Or just in hiding.

I mean, there's always been lots
of hiding places.

House of hiding
is just somewhere they rent

and you don't have a car
or anything

you just are stuck in that spot.

It was usually like up
in the mountains

or out in very rural areas.

I am so upset
that kids are missing.

And honestly, they just--
they don't see

anything wrong
with what Warren does.

So, you don't see this changing.

You see the cycle continuing
with Sam,

another one is going to come up.

All right. The three of us
are sitting at this table

right now, what's step one?

More publicity brought to it,
the more it's going to bring it

to light and the harder
it makes it for them

to just do what they want,
unchecked.

[Matt] Okay. You guys have more
of a voice

than anybody
within these communities

to talk to people
and to have people contact you.

Just let me know if you hear
anything about Helaman

and this house of hiding.
Give me a call.

Yeah.

[Matt] We'll stay in touch.

[Brandon] If we hear anything,
we'll definitely get in touch.

[Matt] For sure. Let me know
and I'll get out of your hair.

All right, take care
of your families.

[Brandon] Take care, Matt.

[Matt] All right, we'll see you
later.

[Matt] I'm extremely glad
that we took the time out

to talk to Rachel and Brandon
because in talking to them,

we were able to connect
some dots up

and talk about some --
some places in North Dakota

that are being looked at
as meeting places

or houses of hiding.

These guys, the FLDS are so god
at hiding people.

And to me that's--
that is extremely frightening.

I want to find out
if there is a connection

between FLDS and the kids
that have been reported missing.

[music]

Because, Warren's still
locked up.

And, and Rachel and Brandon
were able to tell me

everything that's going on,

it's not just Warren
causing these problems,

that with a missing prophet,

other prophets
are gonna come in.

And I think it's very important
that I reach out to people

who know about Sam Bateman

and see what
they've experienced,

what they've learned, so we
can look at this whole picture.

There's nobody who knows
more about what's going on

with Sam Bateman right now
than Faith.

We are in the Phoenix area
and getting ready

to meet with Faith.

She left the group in 2011.

After Faith left, her family
actually fell into

the Sam Bateman
School of Religion.

I don't even know
what to call it.

They -- they bit the apple
that Sam was giving them

and they became part
of his group.

Even though Sam is not
in the Jeffs' line,

and was not part of leadership
in Colorado City

or within the FLDS,
Sam inserted himself

into a place where people were,
were needing something

to latch onto.
And it became Sam Bateman.

To get the meeting here
with Faith

has been kind of nerve-wracking
to say the least.

[music]

Hey.

What's up?

Oh wow did she say why?
What's the big switch?

Wow that's awesome!

That's good, that's great news.

Love you too. Bye-bye.

I think she's got
some huge courage

in doing what she's doing.

This is a person
who has survived

the FLDS community

and now she wants
to help her family get out.

All right. Here we are.

Go and see what Faith
has to say.

Faith.
- [Faith] Hi.

[Matt] What's going on?

Are you nervous?

Very much so.

[Matt] Why?

Because growing up
we were trained

not to trust law enforcement
and so I'm scared

that by talking out, my family
will no longer trust me.

Do you think they trust you now?

No, but this is going
to make it harder

for them to get to that point.

[Matt] Then why talk out?

Because there's some
really bad things

happening to them
and something has to be done.

My first name is Faith
and my last name is Bistline.

I was born and raised
in the FLDS.

We were a polygamist family.

My parents were both born
in the FLDS

and so were their parents.

So, it goes back generations.

I have three moms and one dad
and then there's 28 of us kids.

So, I'm the ninth kid
in my family.

[Matt] Tell me
about your parents.

[Faith] My birth mom
is the first mom.

Growing up, it was difficult
to have

a close personal relationship
with my parents.

As you can imagine,
there's a lot of kids.

My dad, especially,
he was very strict

and he ran his household
that way,

but then my dad was kicked out
by Warren Jeffs.

So, at the time that my father
was sent away,

Warren Jeffs was already
on the run from the FBI.

So, he was already in hiding.

My oldest brother Lud
stepped in,

basically he became the head
of the household.

When did you find out about Sam

and what he was doing
to your family?

I found out about him in 2020.

My oldest brother, Lud,
is a part of Sam's group.

He was the first one
to get convinced by Sam

to be the prophet

and then Sam Bateman
has convinced my family

that Warren Jeffs is dead,

and that Warren Jeffs
came to him in spirit

and told him that he was going
to be the new prophet.

Last I heard Warren is sick,

but he's still in Texas
in prison.

How -- how can they
believe this?

It's easy for my family
to be convinced of this

because they're not allowed
to get on the internet.

They can't look up the fact
that he is in prison.

[Matt] First of all,
how did you find out?

[Faith] The majority
of my sisters,

no longer speak to me
except for one,

who recently, within the last
couple of years

started to talk to me again.
She just turned 18.

[music]

She's been messaging me
and she's been telling me

some really concerning things.

So what -- what is concerning?

Um, all three of my moms
are with Sam.

My oldest brother, Lud,
has some underage daughters

who he gave to Sam as wives.

And Sam married those daughters?

[Faith] Exactly.

Yeah and he married them
when they were underage.

Wow. Are they consummating
their marriage or?

I don't have any
firsthand knowledge

of that happening.

I do have the FBI affidavit now,
which mentions

that he did have
sexual relations

with a lot of these
underage girls.

The FBI affidavit
that was released

detailed a certain ceremony,
I guess you can call it,

that happened at the end
of 2021.

How it was explained to me
by another family member

was that Sam decided
that he needed to atone

for the sins of the FLDS people
who would not agree

to follow him.

It clearly states
in the affidavit,

Sam Bateman had three
different men pair up

with three of his wives
and conducted a ceremony

where they basically
had intercourse in front of Sam.

One of the girls was only
about 12 years old.

What? For-- I'm sorry,
I'm just kind of speechless.

What does that do to you
knowing that your older brothers

are I mean--

It's a mind [bleep]
because I grew up

with my brothers.
Very close with them.

I'm really upset at my brother,
Lud, I'm really upset at him.

I don't know, I don't know
how else to say that.

He has little children. I just
can't fathom how a father

could give his baby girls
to a predator like that.

I can't fathom it.

[Officer] Alright, sir.
Put your hands behind your back.

[Matt] You know, Sam is sitting
in jail right now, right?

[Faith] Right.

[Matt] How can he have
any control

when he's sitting in jail?

Up until recently, he's been
able to FaceTime with them,

actually.

So, he's still--
he's still doing like

what Warren does. He's still
calling the shots from jail.

Right, exactly. I still believed
Warren was the prophet

when I left.

Even sitting in prison?

Especially sitting in prison.

[Matt] Really why?

That elevated him
to a whole other level.

Now he has
this religious persecution.

So, then that's the same--

[Faith] With Sam.
So, I can see that.

Yeah, they probably --
my family probably elevates him

to a whole new level
now that he's in prison.

To more of a God status.

Because now he's basically
a martyr.

-[Faith] Exactly.
-[Matt] Wow.

You left at 18?

-19
-[Matt] 19?

[Faith] It took a few years
before I came to the realization

that Warren Jeffs
wasn't the prophet.

[Matt] Wow.

[Faith] Because when we grew up
in the FLDS,

every single thing was enveloped
by this religion

and Warren Jeffs
was our connection to God.

What he said mattered
more than anything,

more than our dads, more than
our moms, more than anyone.

So, we looked at him
as basically like a god.

It was taught to me
that it was a woman's duty

to bring children
into the earth.

And you were you--
when were you taught that?

Since birth.

Warren Jeffs started
to make strict rules

here and there and they just got
stricter and stricter

and so, I remember that making
an impact on me.

He got rid of the community
events that we had.

He made socializing--
the term socializing a bad word.

He's the one that made the rule,
no internet.

For education in the FLDS,
they had private schools

and we would have the typical
first grade through high school.

But when I was 13, the year
that I was supposed

to enter into freshman year
of high school,

Warren Jeffs decided
that we no longer needed

high school
and so he got rid of that.

I was very disappointed
because I-- I loved school.

So, I got this algebra book
and so I started teaching myself

and then I went
to my oldest brother, Lud,

And asked him
if I could go to college.

He said, "Well, I need
to get permission."

And so supposedly, he talked
to Warren in prison

and he got back to me

and he said, "You're welcome
to go get your GED."

And so I went and I got my GED
at age 16

and then I just enrolled
in college classes right away.

Growing up we were not allowed
to engage

with the outside world at all.

So when I was in college,
that's when my --

the wheels in my brain
really started turning.

I started displaying
outward signs of rebellion,

like I no longer wore the big
poof in the front of my hair.

I pulled my hair back
and not caring.

There were no fights
over these little rebellions.

My family just kind of started
to ignore me

and that was excruciating.

I was always told that anyone
who had left was very miserable

and they all wanted to come back
and I had an older brother

who left
who I had no contact with,

because we were not allowed
to talk to anyone who had left.

I knew that if I left
that my family would cut me off

because I saw how they reacted
to my older brother leaving.

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[Matt] Why did you leave?

[Faith] I got a hold
of my brother who left

and I-- I said, "Hey,
I just want to know,

I'm thinking about leaving
and I want to know

if you regret it.
If you regret leaving."

Like just be -- just be upfront
with me

and he said,
"No, it's the best thing

that's ever happened to me
and I would recommend it

to every single person there."

And that was another
mind blowing moment.

Because I was like,
wait, I've been lied to.

Like, what is going on here?
I've been lied to.

My parents have been lying
to me.

You know, I heard -- I heard it

straight from
my brother's mouth.

He didn't--
he didn't regret leaving.

That's the moment that I decided
I wasn't--

I wasn't going to stay.

I had no plans when I left.

I had a total of $60 cash
in my pocket.

My first job
was a 911 dispatcher

with the law enforcement agency
in Williston, North Dakota.

I didn't know normal things
like you have to be on time.

Yeah there were some
rough patches of me

Just figuring out how you are
suppose to operate in a job.

I made it through
nursing school.

I'm a career woman.

I like to take vacations.
I have friends.

[Matt] Kids are hurt, you know,
people want to protect kids.

So, why within
Sam's organization

or the FLDS religion

don't people report things
to the police?

So, I genuinely believe
that my-- that the people

who are a part of Sam's group

do not believe
they're hurting kids.

They see what's going on
as a sacred ordinance

and so I believe that
that's the reason

they are not reporting.

So, for my little sisters,
I want them to get to a point

where they can choose
what they want

in their own lives.

It's not going to be easy.

I remember being told that,
you know, misery loves company

and so the apostates are going
to tell you whatever they can

to get you to join them
in their misery.

So, I know that that's what
they're thinking of me,

but I'll never stop trying
to get them to leave.

[Matt] Keep doing
what you're doing.

You're doing amazing work.
Just keep doing it.

The fact that Faith
would come forward,

with everything riding on her,
with her family and her career.

Hopefully law enforcement
will see this

and they'll want to take action
on it

and when you bring somebody
wanting to speak out

about injustices
happening to people

in her own family,

I hope other people catch on
and want to do the same.

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