This, Warren said, was one of thousands of revelations the Lord Jesus Christ had given him over the years since his father’s death and his subsequent rise to prophet in 2002. “…to know I am soon to judge all in government positions of unrighteous persecution against my people, to show my will concerning present court persecuting power which judge is now to be of my holy judging upon her and others who have mocked my holy religious and pure Holy Law of Celestial Plural Marriage in open court: let all such proceedings cease now!” The state's involvement wouldn't have stopped church members from doing exactly as their leader said.įrom his jail cell in San Angelo, Warren wrote to his congregation: “Growing up the way we did, we were very protected,” Raymond said, adding that they didn’t have “access to anything outside of the land there and only really knew what we were taught by father and the people he had telling us.” His younger brother Isaac was also removed during the raid and has since left the church, joining Roy, Raymond and three sisters. One of 437 children removed from the compound 10 years ago, Raymond has since left the church as well, the fifth of six children from his family to do so. “We were told the world wanted to kill us, that people wanted to destroy us and our moral values.” “It was scary, it was uncertain,” Raymond said. He agrees that it was an opportunity to see the outside world, “that everybody out there wasn’t terrible,” he said.īut it was also traumatizing – turning the children’s strictly structured lives into chaos and proving Warren’s warning that the outside world wanted to persecute and ruin the church. His brother, Raymond Jeffs, on the other hand, has a hard time seeing the raid entirely in a positive light. "Without it, I don’t think this many people would’ve left.” That temporarily changed after the raid, and it “definitely opened our eyes to what the world was really like and that peace and happiness exist out here." Warren hadn’t yet banned internet use, but Roy said before the raid it was closely monitored and very few people would have had phones with internet access. More: How the FLDS church impacted a small Texas townĪdditionally, the commotion briefly loosened Warren’s grip on control over the church members, with everyone being scattered around the state for months. More: YFZ Ranch remains in limbo 10 years after raid near Eldorado
#After the raid trial
The main benefit of the raid was that his father “wouldn’t be in prison without it,” Roy said, referring to the evidence collected and used in his trial – including audio tapes of Warren having sex with several underage girls. “I was isolated from all of the family after that."īy the time that he left the church, he hadn’t been allowed to see or speak with his mother for two years. By 2010, he was sent to the Short Creek community along the border of Utah and Arizona, In 2012, he was sent out to work. Roy was able to reunite with his family, returning to the ranch in December 2008, when all of Warren’s family was sent there. “We had already been put through that kind of situation by my dad,” he said. The chaos brought by law enforcement's 2008 raid on the YFZ Ranch, which separated family members, was something Roy was already familiar with. It wasn't until after Roy left the church in 2014, the first of Warren’s children to do so, that he realized his father always knew what he was thinking because Roy was always confessing – not because Warren could read minds as he told the church. If you didn’t confess, you weren’t being honest, and “that in itself is a sin. All other trademarks or registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners.These confessions, Roy said, were necessary because “God revealed to him all of the details of your life.”
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