To those who fled the polygamous religious sect led by Warren
Jeffs, their lives had been a living hell, in which young girls were
raped, all material wealth was diverted to the leader, and all contact
with the outside world was banned.
The head of the breakaway Mormon Fundamentalist Church of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS), which had set up a community in the isolated mountains on the Utah-Arizona border, portrayed himself as a prophet who spoke God's law on Earth. And anyone who was deemed to be a threat to Jeffs was banished.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/prophets-prey-inside-a-polygamist-cult/
The head of the breakaway Mormon Fundamentalist Church of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS), which had set up a community in the isolated mountains on the Utah-Arizona border, portrayed himself as a prophet who spoke God's law on Earth. And anyone who was deemed to be a threat to Jeffs was banished.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/prophets-prey-inside-a-polygamist-cult/