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When she was sixteen years old, after years of abuse, including being impregnated at 12 years of age by her father and being forced to marry her first cousin, Phillip Jessop, she fled her family and faith. After many years as a vagabond in Middle and
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Flora has been active since the early 2000s in anti-child abuse work, mainly focusing on the plight of women and children in the FLDS. She founded an organization, "Help the Child Brides" (later dissolved), and later joined "Child
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