In the polygamous Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (FLDS), girls can become valuable property as plural wives, but boys are expendable, even a liability.
He currently lives in Salt Lake City, Utah, with.
Jeffs spent his entire childhood in the Jeffs compound as nephew of Warren Jeffs and grandson of Rulon Jeffs, the Mormon fundamentalist group\'s former prophet, who had dozens of wives and more than sixty children.
About the Author: BRENT W.
In this book he shows that Lost boys can triumph and that abuse and trauma can be overcome, and he hopes that readers will be inspired to help former FLDS members find their way in the world.
Tragically, Brent Lost two of his brothers in this struggle, one to suicide, the other to overdose.
More often than not, they succumb to the temptations of alcohol and other drugs.
Once young men no longer belong to the church, they are cast out into a world for which they are utterly unprepared.
Brent experienced firsthand the absolute power that church leaders wield--the kind of power that corrupts and perverts those who will do anything to maintain it.
Now Brent shares his courageous Story and that of many other young men who have become "Lost boys" when they leave the FLDS, either by choice or by expulsion.
So he walked away, and was the first to file a sexual-abuse lawsuit against his uncle.
But he knew that behind the group\'s pious public image--women in chaste dresses carrying babies on their hips--lay a much darker reality.
The son of a prominent family in the church, Brent could have grown up to have multiple wives of his own and significant power in the 10, 000-strong community.
Brent Jeffs is the nephew of Warren Jeffs, the imprisoned leader of the FLDS.
In this powerful and heartbreaking account, former FLDS member Brent Jeffs reveals both the terror and the love he experienced growing up on his prophet\'s compound--and the harsh Exile existence that so many boys face once they have been expelled by the sect.
In the polygamous Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (FLDS), girls can become valuable property as plural wives, but boys are expendable, even a liability
