Polygamy's Rape of Rachael Strong - Softcover

Llewellyn, John R

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0977707210 ISBN 13: 9780977707218

Publisher: Agreka Books, 2006

Synopsis

Rachael Strong was raped: By her polygamist prophet stepfather forty-five years her senior who claims he was only living his religion. By a published doctrine that warns: submit or be destroyed by God. By a Utah movement to decriminalize polygamy. By the new "political correctness." Was it incest? Was it rape? Was it extortion? Some call it simply a religious choice Rachael made. In 2006, the State of Utah is enacting policies that appear to be decriminalizing polygamy, and non-profit victims advocate Tapestry Against Polygamy has been asked not to use politically incorrect words like "victim" or "escape" or "brainwashed" or "cult." When well-educated, fashionably-dressed, articulate pro-polygamy women living comfortably as independents appeal to the public, and court the Attorney General, explaining how civilized polygamy really is - after years of hearing about group-controlled polygamist women being downtrodden, poorly dressed, poorly educated, and ruled by their husbands - people pay attention. Freedom of Religion is now headed to the Supreme Court. Will they consider the difference between "free-will" plural marriage and the human rights violations of "religious-coercive" polygamy? This book documents a recent case history of a Mormon Fundamentalist polygamist, who is a ruthless sexual predator. And he is not being prosecuted.

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About the Author

John R. Llewellyn, retired Salt Lake County Sheriff's Lieutenant, specialized in sex crime investigation that included polygamy complaints. He compiled an intelligence file on mass murderer Ervil LeBaron, who in 1977 ordered the death of Dr. Rulon C. Allred, leader of Utah's second largest polygamist group. In order to best combat and understand the polygamist, deputy Llewellyn studied Mormon doctrine and was converted to Mormonism, and then Mormon Fundamentalism. Impressed with the integrity, virtue and undaunted conviction of many of the polygamists, Llewellyn became a member of AUB, but when the leadership claimed they were the sole conduit to a celestial exaltation, Llewellyn left. Llewellyn is recognized as an expert on Mormon Fundamentalism and polygamy. He is also the lead investigator in a lawsuit against polygamist James D. Harmston and his True and Living Church, headquartered at Manti, Utah, as well as a consultant for the Attorney General's Office. John Llewellyn is uniquely qualified as a polygamy expert and can speak to the issues in a way no one else can. He is highly articulate and thoroughly knowledgeable about law enforcement polygamy strategies, government attitudes, and the vast issues inside and outside of polygamy. He knows all the leaders of polygamy groups, many of their members, and a multitude of polygamists who live outside a group. Other books:Author Murder of a Prophet: Dark Side of Utah Polygamy, A Teenager's Tears: When Parents Convert to Polygamy, and Polygamy Under Attack: From Tom Green to Brian David Mitchell.He is available for interviews by TV and the Press. His website: http://www.polygamyversuscommonsense.com. John may be contacted via e-mail: jrllewellyn@apcomp.com.John R. Llewellyn has appeared on ABC Primetime, The Today Show, NBC Nightly News, Fox News Channel's The Edge with Paula Zahn, MSNBC, Inside Edition, and Good Morning America.

From the Inside Flap

Two women on parole for being accessories to sex crimes against children assisted in a carefully crafted conspiracy by Mormon Fundamentalist leader James D. Harmston to coerce his beautiful twenty-year-old stepdaughter Rachael to become his seventeenth wife. Her stepfather since she was ten years old, this "prophet" had been attracted to Rachael s beauty even then, and began plotting to one day make her his wife.

Rachael married a young man in the group when she was sixteen and emotionally bonded with him, fully expecting to bear him children. To her shock, she was specifically ordered by her stepfather prophet not to become pregnant. When she accidentally became pregnant and bore a child, he was furious, ordered the husband to throw her out, and implemented his plan, an intensive mind control program:

The world was coming to a rapid and horrible end, she had been the devil s wife in a previous life, God had turned his back on her, and this life was her very last chance to save herself and her baby from soon-to-occur eternal damnation. Her only chance to be saved was to marry her stepfather, the prophet, who held her imminent destruction in his hands. Shattered, she married him and was subjected to such degrading and dehumanizing sexual acts with this sixty-four year old predator stepfather that the day soon came when she realized that damnation could not be worse and left.

Was it incest? Was it rape? Was it extortion? Was it conspiracy to commit a felony? Was it domestic violence? Was it conspiracy to defraud? Some may call it simply a religious choice Rachael made. But was it? There is no question that "duress" was applied.

Rachael has never been given an official response from the Utah Attorney General about why he declines to prosecute. The case was submitted to him in late 2004.

The Attorney General states that Utah now declines to prosecute the crime of bigamy between consenting adults, but will prosecute crimes against children; and he explained to polygamists in a St. George Town Meeting that he would not prosecute "a religious tenet." He has responded well to the wishes of a pro-polygamy group of women who live in mainstream society. They call their group Principle Voices, and they want polygamy decriminalized.

When highly-educated, well-dressed, and articulate pro-polygamy women living as independents come forward, explaining how civilized polygamy really is, and they do this after years of public perception of group-controlled polygamist women being downtrodden, poorly dressed, poorly educated, and unquestioning of their husbands of course, people will pay attention. They become an entertaining media story and they also provide Utahns someone to point to and say "See, this is the real polygamy, not those others."

Before society is lulled into accepting polygamy as just another lifestyle, let s make sure all the cards have been placed on the table so everyone can see and examine them.

Edition details

• Publisher: Agreka Books
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0977707210
• ISBN 13: 9780977707218
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 156