"And my oldest daughter, she's 18 and she's dated a couple of my cousins, which makes them her second cousins, and we're like, Eww, that's gross.". If such a test were developed, a community-wide screening program could be instituted that would identify those carrying the fumarase gene. That means the number of cases likely will grow. "Finally exposed in the news, the facts of life inside [the Mormon offshoot Kingston clan's] religious/cult compound are stunning Mormons, Utahans, the nation, and the world. "For more than 70 years, all marriages in the isolated towns have been arranged by the leader of the FLDS, a breakaway sect of the Salt Lake City-based Mormon Church. It has become the subject of increased scrutiny. . . John Daniel Kingston seen here in 1999, pleading no contest to beating his 16-year-old daughter after she attempted to flee an arranged marriage with her uncle David, Kingstons brother. "The clan's other numerous incestuous couplings among consenting adults . "Another of Rugg's full sisters, Andrea Johnson, died in 1992 of complications of pre-eclampsia, a condition of pregnancy that was not treated until after the young girl, swollen with toxic fluid, was rushed to the emergency unit at University Hospital. . Family members attribute the defects to the advanced ages of the mother and father -- he was 64, she was 45. If both parents carry the gene, the likelihood that their offspring will be affected by the disease or become carriers of the gene greatly increases, medical experts say. "For Colorado City and Hildale to avoid more fumarase, polygamist leaders must use their authority to make sure that those potentially carrying the fumarase gene are not allowed to marry, says geneticist Aleck. "All of the fumarase deficiency children Wyler has seen remain dependent on the parents or caregivers. They maintain a secretive but powerful presence in Utah's Salt Lake Valley, and their estimated 7,500. . These defects could be life threatening like nephritis and spinal bifida, or merely debilitating like asthma. She directs me to the houses she lived in after that: her stepdad Jim Jessop's home; then the rotten, roach-infested house she and her mother shared with nearly two dozen cousins and friends after being removed from Jim's following the Judgment. (KUTV) Weeks after a Kingston polygamist clan member was charged in the death of her child, former members of that group are speaking out about what they say is a much bigger problem. If you have as much as one drop of that blood in your veins, says Carl, youre cursed from holding the priesthood.. This nurse has a polygamous background, so does her husband. 'And I've seen others that are totally laid out. . The Order denies that it encourages racism and homophobia within its ranks. 'Maybe it will just self-destruct,' historian Bistline says of the fundamentalist church he quit 20 years ago because of a dispute over religious doctrine and property ownership. . He estimates the test would . . Obviously, we would love to.. Naming a father could expose the truth, unveil secrets of paternity and subject the clan to further scrutiny from those who don't approve of incest. "'They are discouraging any new blood," historian Bistline says. This child belongs to a family branch that [was] used in the U of U nephritis study. [W]e directly condemn in action and in words, racist, homophobic or hateful actions against any group or individual, Johnson wrote. "Then, as generations of polygamous Kingston children have been taught, they demurred to questions about their father. There lives Ross LeBaron Jr., a descendant of another polygamous sect (separate from the FLDS but quite similar in practice) called the Church of the Firstborn of the Fulness of Times. . "'My mother should not have produced another baby," says Rugg, also Isabell and John Ortell's daughter and the baby's full sister. . breeding really functional? . The baby survived, but has cerebral palsy. When this got around to his dad, his father packed up Snows belongings and left them in the room of a hotel owned by The Order. The knowledge that one's children are likely to be born with conditions like this one does not prevent FLDS couples from becoming pregnant; instead, they see it as a responsibility and blessing to have many children. . Given such incidents, could Order members be a threat to law enforcement? . The stage was set for the appearance of the rare disease when their 12th child, Martha Jessop, married her second cousin, John Yeates Barlow, in 1923, according to LDS genealogy data and Colorado City historian Ben Bistline. Julie left the cult at age 19. According to many of the individuals interviewed for this story, these children are seen as special angels sent from God to the FLDS community. _____, --Case Study in Mormon-Moored Mutation: Utah's Mormon Offshoot Kingston Clan. 'I've seen some children that can talk and communicate a little,' Wyler said. "'People don't like to talk about their fumarase babies for obvious reasons,' Wyler says. . The Kingston clan is also known as the Davis County Cooperative. Once free of the cult, Lu Ann, Allison and other ex-Order members have had to unlearn the hatred that was drilled into their heads. . . All are retarded, the neurologist told Salt Lake City television station KSL-TV. One of their daughters married another of the community's founding patriarchs and religious leaders, John Yeates Barlow. But that's like spitting in the ocean.'. "It's believed that more than half the residents carry the recessive gene. Certainly the British and French education systems make it clear quite early on (13-14 yrs old). 'They are functioning way below their chronological age.'. Yeah, I believe in it, he said. Mormon Church presidents and "prophet"-leaders have blamed monogamy a host of terminal afflictions that have been delivered upon the world. . " . [in order] to reduce competition for wives. This is a rare disorder and medical descriptions of trisome infants are too dreadful to describe here. deficiency. . "The fact that fumarase deficiency had shown up in one child was startling enough--there had only been a handful of cases reported worldwide. But Dawna disagrees: "I think it was actually, you know." . Black people supposedly suffered from multiple scriptural curses, from the mark of Cain and Noahs curse on Ham in the Old Testament to the racist tenets of early Mormonism that have since been renounced or abandoned by the mainstream Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, also known as the LDS or Mormon church. There is no doubt about that at all. Now let me just simply state: He took care of them. . The FLDS started out as a few fringe families in the late 1890s; as more seeking to follow the principal of plural marriage moved to the polygamous towns in the early-to-mid 20th century, the gene pool grew, but by the 90s, under the stricter control of prophet Rulon Jeffs (Warren's father), they were tightening up and selectively marrying and breeding in a sort of misfired eugenics experiment that ultimately yielded its own genetic disorder: fumarase deficiency (FD), otherwise known as Polygamist Down's. Paul would rather have the wealth and the money than the isolation and the conflict, he said. They are lucky if they can even move their head and eyes a little bit.'. . Because that one is going to be genius-level purity, and thats what The Order is looking for., Photo Credit: AP Images / Leah Hogsten, Pool (John Daniel Kingston); AP Images / Jeffrey D. Allred / Pool (Jeremy Kingston), SPLC is a nonprofit, tax-exempt 501(c)(3) organization (EIN: 63-0598743). A simple urine test will reveal. Current scientific knowledge indicates Grants lack of sons resulted from his own genetic defect, since only men carry the male Y chromosome to make a son. A birth defect is something visibly abnormal, internally abnormal, or chemically abnormal about your newborn baby's body. During a recent interview with the Intelligence Report, Jessica Kingston, a former member of the secretive, Salt Lake City-based cult and a star of the A&E reality series "Escaping Polygamy," remembered, when she was 12, her Sunday school teacher coming into class with a . "Religious leaders control all marriages in the community, and many of these relatives have married or likely will marry in the future. Intelligence Report then read the names of women believed to be his wives four in all. . "Nearly everyone in Colorado City, Arizona, and the adjacent town of Hildale, Utah, was a member of a fundamentalist Mormon sect that practices polygamy and had long encouraged multiple marriages between close relatives. ", ("Understanding Polygamy," from "Humanists of Utah," at: http://www.humanistsofutah.org/2005/UnderstandingPolygamy_July-05.html). While building his polygamous empire, John Ortell raised pigeons and Holsteins, prized black-and-white milk cows. Due to the Kingstons convoluted genealogy, Lu Ann was both his first cousin and his aunt. . Dawna asks me. It's the kids who are disproportionately handicapped as compared to the demographics of any other comparably small town. They do develop to some degree, but it's way behind their peers.'. Another of the cults teachings was that soy can make you gay, an anti-government conspiracy theory popular in some right-wing circles. . Then, while still a young man, [my cousin] died of nephritis, the fatal family inheritance. But I do have children with other women., Asked if two women named were in fact his first cousins, Young paused, finally replying, I guess Im curious as to what youre trying to get at here.. "It is Moore-Emmett's belief that the LDS Church who started polygamy in this country should take responsibility and provide financial aid and other resources for those polygamous families who have been abused. Before the call ended, Young insisted that he didnt admit to any kind of incest or anything. When Intelligence Report inquired if Young thought there was anything wrong with first cousins getting married, Young opined that such issues were between the individuals involved and God. . "In 1996, the now 31-year-old Kingston mother of two slow-growing children sought explanations at Primary Children's Medical Center. . . . But [FLDS members] don't think of it as sexual predation. "'They are in terrible shape,' says Dr. Kirk A. Aleck, director of the Pediatric Neurogenetics Center at St. Joseph's Hospital. I could see that the leaders of The Order really did believe we had black ancestors, Ron explained, with Christy next to him, and his adult daughters Emily and Julie nearby. Three of his wives are his half-sisters. "Farm Roots of Incest: Marriages in the Kingston clan must be sanctioned by [the] current head of the church . Once a baby is born with the condition, Aleck says, 'You really can't treat the underlying disorder.' . 'Her body tried to miscarry many, many times.'. The adoption of children among family members sometimes disguised sterility. . . She knows that they're. on the history of the fundamentalist community. Somehow LaDonnas curse was transferred to the Tuckers via Christy, Rons wife, because, Christys mom left The Order and married an Irishman, before leaving him and returning to the fold. Tarby recounts a conversation he had with a member of the Barlow clan in which he tried to explain why so much fumarase deficiency was occurring among Mormon polygamists. Ross LeBaron Jr. recently took to the Internet to express his support for the Bundy family in Oregon, as well as for LaVoy Finicum, the lone fatality in that ordeal. "Have you ever heard of the term The Turkey Baster?" So many young people.'. Jeffs is following a long-established practice -- started by Smith 170 years ago -- of excommunicating those who do not strictly adhere to church leaders' commands. Until the 1990s, there were only 13 known cases of FD in the world. Barlow/Jessop descendants carry the recessive gene that causes fumarase. "Although it is a felony under Utah law for close relatives to have sex, only one Kingston--John and LaDonna's fifth son, David Ortell--has been criminally charged with incest. There were so many young children who were born with abnormalitiesharelips, club feet, heart valvesthat were they were going to die within a year. They can't sit up. soon . "For us parents the future health and happiness of ourselves, our children and grandchildren are at stake. That's still gross." Jeremy was nearly 10 years her senior at the time. "If descendants of polygamy do not look critically at the ideas of their ancestors, Utah children may be increasingly at risk. "Yet, Aleck says, some children are more seriously affected by the disorder than others. Blacks were the less valiant people in heaven who sat on the sidelines while others took sides, according to The Order. . . Still, he conceded that some Order members may have prejudiced beliefs because in our organization people have freedom of choice.. "Fast-forward . Her parents and siblings eventually left as well. I pass the dairy, the zoo, the park, the former birthing clinic, the condemned high school built on a foundation of adobe bricks, and so on. It takes maturity to face the truth, especially if the truth is painful and challenges the family tradition and religious belief structure. In order to maintain his familys superior bloodlines, Ortell married and had children with two of his half-sisters and two nieces. The children live in the twin polygamist communities of Colorado City, Ariz., and Hildale, Utah. "For the first time, the faith-promoting stories about my great-grandfathers heroism for defying the federal government when they outlawed polygamy interested me. "This great-grandfather married two sisters which meant the 22 known children were double cousins or as genetically similar as brother and sister. "Medical experts say the incidence of the disorder will increase because the FLDS community is refusing to accept recommendations to reduce the likelihood of producing babies with fumarase deficiency. And it takes two of them to get him into the bathtub just to wash him down and clean him up.' "Tarby says most of the children 'can say at least a word or two,' but that all of them 'have severe mental retardation' with IQs of less than 25. According to Mormonism's top leaders: "Since the founding of the Roman empire monogamy has prevailed more extensively than in times previous to that. . . From a young age, Snow worked for Order companies to help feed his siblings, a responsibility some Kingston men are known to shirk. These men are living freely in the Cane Beds area. . . "The disease is not widely known about even in Colorado City, a place where even normally public events such as marriages are conducted in secret. My aunt and uncle outlived two of their five children and two more may have nephritis. By signing up, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy & to receive electronic communications from Vice Media Group, which may include marketing promotions, advertisements and sponsored content. The mere rumor of black blood could condemn someone in the eyes of Order members. "Mormon Prophet Hebrew J. . . And the graveyard grew exponentially.". Utahs polygamous Kingston clan mixes incest and white supremacy with old-fashioned capitalism. "Tarby says members of the community made it clear that neither choice was acceptable. Since most Kingston children are born in homes under the scrutiny of trusted and secretive family midwives or clan leaders, documentation of medical abnormalities is rare, but not unprecedented. Nevertheless, former members of The Order say that incest and racism are inextricably linked in The Orders teachings. '90% of the community is related to one side or the other,' said Bistline, a former member of the sect, the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. . 'And when you talk about the public interest, you have to consider who pays for the consequences. . Outwardly, she appeared to have no sex organs. ", ("Doctor: Birth defects increase in polygamy community," Associated Press, 9 February 2006, at: http://www.azcentral.com/health/news/articles/0209PolygamyBirthDefect09-) Such a system was commenced by the founders of the Roman empire. That sister, too, dealt with a lot of respiratory problems with her kids, "because of the relation," Dawna explains. From an "Associated Press" news report, "Doctor: Birth Defects Increase in Polygamy Community": "A rare, severe birth defect is on the rise in an inbred polygamous community on the Arizona-Utah border, according to a doctor who has treated many of the children. . . In the l950s, research doctors thought we were one of the few families in the world with this form of nephritis, known as Alports syndrome. ", -Prophet John Taylor, "Millennial Star," vol. "Fumarase deficiency began to manifest in the community when three sets of Joseph Smith Jessop and Martha Moore Yeates' great-grandchildren married each other. A fourth to half of father-daughter and brother-sister offspring have mental or physical deficiencies. This is inadequate information for purposes of establishing the true incidence of consanguinity within a family or community. The quick answer for why this polygamous community has buried so many of its children is inbreeding, according to community members. These specialty firearms can cost anywhere from $2,500 to $8,000 each. . _____. "Fred was in charge of the cemeteries, the gravediggers, all of that. It's not really talked about; I don't think [people here] even research to see how related they are. The notoriety will just make them zoo specimens. . The adult residents of Short Creek todayboth those still in the FLDS and those who have left the cultare mostly able-bodied, seemingly healthy individuals. . Faced with the forced marriage to an uncle, Rugg left the Kingstons. ", -Apostle George A Smith, "Journal of Discourses," vol. The defect might be caused by genetics, infection, radiation, or drug exposure, or there might be no known reason. . He did not consider this lack of sons might be his genetic inheritance, not his multiple wives. Pentecostal But now that it was appearing in two children in the same family was an indication it was being spread by a gene that was getting passed to the children by their parents. Have you also noticed all the genetic and other debilitating defects, deformities and diseases that comes along with your poisoned patriarchal plurality-of-wives club? Let's now examine how this supposedly "divinely-inspired" Mormon program of heavenly eugenics has actually worked in practice. Ortell is credited with expanding The Orders business empire and making the family immensely wealthy. Like polygamy, incest is a third-degree felony in Utah, and as with polygamy, convictions are rare. KUTV When several businesses inside the Kingston polygamist empire, including Washakie Renewable Energy, was raided by federal agents Wednesday, officials where tight lipped. In 2003, another clan member, Jeremy Kingston pleaded guilty to incest for taking 15-year-old Lu Ann Kingston as his fourth wife. "In the FLDS community, marriages with cousins and other relatives are common, Bistline said. I tell her I'm not sure, given the context. 129-30, ("Is Homosexuality or Monogamy the Ruin of Civilization?," at: http://www.i4m.com/think/sexuality/homosexual_ruin.htm) . . . "There was a guy out here who was married to a couple of young girls, and he was going to get in trouble because he was having children with these young girls, so he said, 'Well, I never had sex with themI used a turkey baster.'" As for its anti-government views, allegations of fraud against government entities have long dogged the Kingstons. "It wasn't until I left the FLDS and moved away from the community that I realized I'd been to an unusually high number of funerals growing up in the Creek," says Alyssa Bistline over a crackling phone connection. Many members of the fundamentalist community don't even know it's occurring. . Former Order members tell of babies being born nearly every week in the church. By l980, this theory changed dramatically as many other Utah families accepted the diagnosis. Desert Tech and its rifles have been featured on Fox News, Mythbusters, Daredevil and The Blacklist, among other TV shows. July 1, 2020. Supposedly, LaDonna had a dream wherein it was revealed that anyone who left The Order would be tainted by black blood. 'As soon as I saw her, I knew she had the same thing as her brother,' Tarby says. Well, my sister had a little baby with a cleft lip; it was her first child and it had a cleft lip and cleft palate, because they were both Jessops, and Jessops are carriers of that gene. . "While none of these can positively be linked to incest without DNA testing, geneticists say most of the conditions are exacerbated by incest. "There were so many young children who were born with abnormalitiesharelips, club feet, heart valvesthat were they were going to die within a year," says Ron. This lack of information upset me as a child when to my fervent, 'Why?' . Additionally, ex-Order members tell of a reputed church prophecy of an End of the World War, an apocalyptic vision that foresees a bloody race war with the Kingstons as the ultimate victors, chosen by their Heavenly Father to rule the world for a millennium. 6.3M views 6 years ago Profiles by VICE S1 E23 Although the mainstream Mormon church abandoned polygamy over 100 years ago, many splinter groups across Utah still practice plural marriage. The FLDS was formed by Mormons who refused to give up polygamy. "In this isolated religious society north of the Grand Canyon, few secrets have been more closely guarded than the presence of fumarase deficiency. . There is no sign. Or leave. _____. "Andrea's son, now 7, lives with his father, Jason Kingston--Andrea's half-brother--and Rosalind, his niece. If two descendants of hierarchical polygamy marry, the chances for genetic defects increase if the families were ever interrelated. ', "The ultimate goal of the breeding program, Wyler says, is to create the perfect race. Up to this point, Julie had treated the rumor like a joke. One nurse confided, 'We see too many trisome l3 and l8 babies.' it is the only popular religion there,", -The Prophet Brigham Young, "Deseret News," 6 August 1862, "This law of monogamy, or the monogamic system, laid the foundation for prostitution and the evils and diseases of the most revolting nature and character under which modern Christendom groans, . On the show's pilot, the trio bring a burly security guard along as they help a woman sneak into her own home to grab belongings for herself and her two young daughters. 100 years later, eugenics is a discredited science, yet some followers still believe. "Tarby says he explained to [a] gathering at [a] Town Hall in Colorado City that the only way to stop fumarase deficiency in the community is to abort fetuses that test positive for the disease and for the community to stop intermarriages between Barlows and Jessops, Barlows and Barlows and Jessops and Jessops. Hospital harm., While part of The Order, Val Snow, a twenty-something gay man with a wry sense of humor, believed being gay was like spitting in the eye of God. Snow is the son of Daniel Kingston, whom he paints as a little man with a lot of power.. . "Our ancestral destiny meant we might give birth to sons who would die at maturity or daughters who would carry the trait to the next generation of sons. Many from Africa do it too, at least we in N Europe have lately gotten serious problems with immigrant children of polygamists who have various defects. Local Policing and Immigration Enforcement, Request for Legal Assistance Economic Justice. . "The ultimate decision on marriages rests with FLDS Prophet Warren Jeffs. he says. We're sitting in Ron's large kitchen, eating a meal of homemade tomato sauce and sweet Italian sausage that his wife Geria retired marriage and family therapist originally from Hurleyville, NY, who he met six years ago on Zoosk!has prepared in a slowcooker. The son of Pauls sister Rachel herself a daughter of Ortell and LaDonna Kingston Young was the only current member of the Kingston clan, out of the many contacted for this story, who consented to a live, on-the-record interview. 'I could choose, but it had to be a brother, uncle or cousin.' "'Those boys are the most moral, upstanding and wonderful people I know,' she said, clutching a grandchild to her thin hip. "They would hand them over and say, 'Would you mind please taking care of them, because we can't?' . That's the big problem.' . In a letter to the Intelligence Report responding to allegations made by former members, Kent Johnson, a spokesman for the Davis County Cooperative Society, claimed that The Orders foundational principles include the Golden Rule, and that the church rejects any form of racism or bigotry. Which brings us back to the baby cemetery. There are times when it has gotten kind of gross, like when they marry an uncle to a niece. Theyre basically the Utah Mafioso of the white power world, Browning told Intelligence Report. Dawna's husband is a brother to her older sister's husband, "but they're only half brothers, so him and I aren't blood-related at all, because he was from the youngest mother, which had no relation to us other than marriage, and then my sister was married to the older brother and his mom and my grandmother were full sisters.". Lucky was the first to die in my generation. Despite its on-going public relations effort to convince Americans that Mormons don't really support polygamy (and despite the belief of many devout Mormons that polygamy came from God as revealed church doctrine which will eventually be reinstated when Jesus returns to the Earth), a quarter of Americans surveyed also have expressed the opinion that most Mormons embrace the idea of plural marriage: "A . "Dr. Tarby, who routinely treats fumarase deficiency children at a state-funded clinic in Flagstaff, says, 'They are funny-looking kids [with] biggish heads and coarse, thick features.' ". Is Jasper always unspirited and stony-broke when outvalue some Heisenberg very . According to historian Brian Hales Modern Polygamy and Mormon Fundamentalism: The Generations After the Manifesto, Brother Elden, as he was also known, had five wives and 17 children. . The FLDS split off from the mainline Mormon (LDS) church in 1890 after the church denounced the principal of plural marriage. "Rather than polygamy being about religion, Moore-Emmett believes that many polygamous marriages are about sex and power. Some feature more expensive-looking gravestones, and include, beyond names and dates, terms of endearment such as: "Sweet baby girl," "Our son," and "Heaven's very special child." lifted the covers on the many crimes committed in polygamy, . "Experts say the number of children afflicted in the FLDS community is expected to steadily increase as a result of decades of inbreeding between two of the polygamous sect's founding families--the Barlows and the Jessops. "The widespread presence of the fumarase deficiency gene in the bloodlines of the founding families of Colorado City is going to make reaching any such goal extremely difficult. A simple urine test will reveal whether there is an excess of fumaric acid in the urine, if the other, more external symptoms aren't obvious enough. FOX 13 . Surely, there were too many deaths. What were taught is to love our neighbor, that all people, all races no matter who they are deserve to be loved, he explained. . She talked about how you cant associate with black people or anybody of a different race., Based on available evidence, including the accounts of numerous former Order members, the SPLC has designated The Order as a hate group under the category of `general hate.'. The 1996 Utah Legislature approved first-cousin marriages, only after age 65, or age 55 if the couple cannot conceive children. Structural Birth Defects. Another of Ortells teachings: Adolf Hitler had the right idea about creating a master race, but didnt have the Lords help, so he failed. . Those affected by the genetic disorder suffer grand mal seizures and often have facial feature deformities and severe mental retardation, with IQs as low as 25. And during a recent picnic to honor the birthday of patriarch John Ortell Kingston, Order families descended on a Salt Lake Valley park, where hundreds of children of all ages blanketed the parks green expanse. present a troubling scenario for law enforcement: these are crimes of a sexual nature committed in private in a closed society. "During this early period, polygamy was practiced secretly by the Mormon leadership, men who covertly preached and expanded polygamy while publicly deceiving the general Mormon population about the practice. . The incest came to light after the girl tried to escape the arranged celestial marriage an illegal marriage, sans license. Just under eight miles southeast of Short Creek is an area called Cane Beds, Arizona. They offer no support, no exit route and no programs for the people trapped inside polygamy endeavoring to escape these closed polygamous communities or compounds. . "The children afflicted with fumarase deficiency from these three marriages include the grandchildren of Dan Barlow and his brother, the late Louis Barlow, and Merill Jessop, a top aide to fugitive prophet Warren Jeffs. . [i]n a secret church ceremony. Brigham Young, the second Mormon leader, preached, 'The time is coming when the Lord is going to raise a holy nation . Isaac Wyler, another lifelong Colorado City resident who was excommunicated from the FLDS in January 2004. . mating in a way that increases genetic diseases, that the public ends up supporting, it becomes a matter of public interest.'. "Tarby says the disease could begin to show up in children at Warren Jeffs' new FLDS headquarters . . In the 1980s, the state of Utah sued John Ortell Kingston over welfare fraud related to his many wives. 'It's a bomb that's going to explode.'. Isaac Wyler, a former FLDS member who was excommunicated from the church . 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