Llewellyn, John R. Polygamy Under Attack: From Tom Green to Brian David Mitchell (2004) Dan Simon & Amanda Townsend (September 7, 2007). 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 bucket of water and a vial of black food coloring. But lots of people in the sect are already descended from that family, Hansen said; thats why there are so many cousin marriages in the Kingston Group. The Order denies that it encourages racism and homophobia within its ranks. Paul would rather have the wealth and the money than the isolation and the conflict, he said. The mere rumor of black blood could condemn someone in the eyes of Order members. In 1999, Kingston spent 28 weeks in jail after pleading no contest to felony child abuse for beating one of his daughters, then 16, for fleeing . DBS MORNING SHOW & OBITUARIES 25TH APRIL 2023 APRIL 2023 - Facebook John Daniel Kingston did not return messages seeking comment Tuesday. The attorney general's office is concerned about a possible conflict of interest because witnesses in that case also are members of the Kingston clan. He said he was going to give me 10 licks for every wrongdoing. In 2003, Order member Jeremy Kingston pleaded guilty to incest for taking his first cousin, 15-year-old Lu Ann Kingston, as his fourth wife. Obsessed with the purity of their bloodline and empowered by a sense of entitlement on par with the divine right of kings, the Kingstons have made incest the cornerstone of a self-serving theology that loathes non whites, fosters homophobia and abhors government authority. Jones recommended he be released. Their grooms averaged 20 years and 18 days. For now, all three men remain in jail. Sometimes she cries because she sees her kids getting beaten and she cant do anything., Kingston subjected his children to abandonment and illegal behavior, Brewer said, noting the children are aware of his relationships with 14 women, three of whom are his half sisters.. I didnt even know the n-word was bad until I was like 15 or 16, she told Intelligence Report. DCFS declined to open a case, but Guardian ad Litem Kristin Brewer intervened. The ones that misbehave, they try to push them to marry as soon as they can, Hansen said. 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 sect will then return what money the business needs for operating expenses. 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. His battles with the church arent over, How Palm Springs ran out Black and Latino families to build a fantasy for rich, white people, U.S. says 20,000 Russians killed in Ukraine war since December, Speaker Kevin McCarthy addresses Knesset amid fraught U.S.-Israel ties, First Republic: Cheap, interest-only jumbo mortgages to Silicon Valleys elite fueled the banks failure, SpaceX used wildlife preserve as dumping ground for space waste, lawsuit alleges, Judge blocks Missouri rule that would limit transgender care. But Jessicas No. He vowed never again to commit incest or have sex with an underage girl. Her top choice the one whom she felt God told her to marry was a man five years older than she and to whom she was related on both sides of her family tree. She wants to be adopted by her foster family, and one day become a police officer and help abused kids. You guys are the best parents in the world, and having one of you gone is like having an arm gone or my brain gone.. [W]e directly condemn in action and in words, racist, homophobic or hateful actions against any group or individual, Johnson wrote. However, Kingston maintained that the girl spoke with friends and family about having a relationship with him, and that the two were wed in a spiritual ceremony only after the girl and her family agreed to it. Rolwing wanted the women to post a $10 million bond the same amount Jacob Kingston has offered to leave jail pending trial and sought to bolster his argument by explaining prosecutors view of the case to Judge Paul Warner. This racist display was no one-off. The girl said she walked seven miles to a service station and called police. Jessica said she and other children of the Kingston clan a group also known as The Order, the Davis County Cooperative Society, and the Latter-Day Church of Christ dropped the N-bomb all the time, as did their parents. She said that 54 months of attention from the Division of Child and Family Services, dating back to 1994, had failed to resolve the squalor and neglect in Fosters home. By 18 she was pregnant with her first child and ended up having four children in four years. The relations are distant enough they wouldnt encounter any of Utahs prohibitions on marriage between siblings, first cousins or aunts/nephews and uncles/nieces. Calls to John Daniel Kingston's attorney, were not returned. Information in the story may be outdated By subscribing, you acknowledge and agree to KSL.com's, Crews searching for woman caught in Weber River, Man taking family camping near Utah Lake hit and killed; driver criminally charged, Westbound I-80 closed due to vehicle fire in Salt Lake City, Utah-based Extra Space Storage to merge with Life Storage in nearly $13B deal, Utah launches statewide turf grass buyback program as it seeks water-use reformation, Have You Seen This? That will open up for The Order to rise up and take over the world, Ron said. He orchestrated all unions within the cult, which was maintained with classic mind control techniques, corporal punishment, fasting and bizarre dietary practices. Once the couples signed the certificates and turned them back in to the Mesa County clerk, they were legally married. Browning sees similarities between The Order and the religion-minded racists of the World Church of the Creator and the Christian Identity movement. All rights reserved. During the approval process, the young man had begun texting Jessica something forbidden but that she says is common among Order teens who have an interest in one another. The bride was 16. Something along the lines of, to build a superhuman, if you have four or five defects to get the one good one, its worth it, he recalled. David Kingstons 16-year-old wife was the daughter of another brother, John Daniel Kingston, who was sentenced to 28 weeks in jail for severely beating his daughter after she attempted to flee the marriage. The couples divorce became final in 2011. Those two unions happened in Colorado, where its legal to marry your cousin. Andy Larsen: Heres where National Weather Service forecasts flooding, in the short term and the long term, Murray police officers were justified in their use of force against a 52-year-old man who died after arrest, Salt Lake County D.A. The ones they dont think they have to worry about, they dont push them as hard.. Chinese people were called stupid, and Mexicans were dirty, said Lu Ann, adding, because of their skin.. . Stephanie Mattingly: "My dad did not support her in any way. For now, Utah law says a 15-year-old may marry with the consent of a parent or guardian and the permission of a juvenile court judge. DeRieux says the other two girls were her half-sisters, both age 16. Daniels ultimatum: Stay in The Order, date no one, and have no contact with family. . Speaking of which: One way in which you can support us at no additional cost to you is by shopping at Amazon.com. For a stretch in 2014 and 2015, Washakie was one of Utahs highest-profile businesses. The younger girl will see her mother during counseling sessions and have supervised visits with her siblings. Revenues typically go into a church account. During his parole hearing in August, he admitted for the first time that he had had sex with the girl. The new indictment charges Jacob Kingston with 43 counts of filing false returns with the IRS, money laundering, threatening a witness and obstruction of justice. deductible, Report a missed paper by emailingsubscribe@sltrib.comor calling801-237-2900, For e-edition questions or comments, contact customer support801-237-2900or emailsubscribe@sltrib.com. Known variously as Brother Paul, the leader, and the man on the watchtower by Order members, this unremarkable, balding middle-aged man reportedly has 27 wives and over 300 children. After driving some 80 miles to the ranch near Plymouth, her father ordered her into a barn. Hansen, 50, in a recent interview, said she told her daughter that wanting to leave home was the wrong reason to get married. Hansen said during family home evenings nights when a mans family gathers for religious studies and games her husband would take girls 12 and older who were single and lead them in a teaching. The girl said she did not remember leaving the barn, but woke up the next morning on a couch in the living room of a woman who former members say is one of John Daniel Kingston's 20-plus wives. The Salt Lake Tribune, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) public charity and contributions are tax Young declined to comment when asked if he practices polygamy. A body of research suggests the teenage brain is not developed enough to make the kind of long-term decision needed for marriage. The girls, ages 13 and 15, have been in state custody since mid-February, when they said their father threatened to beat them after they got their ears pierced. There shouldnt really be a reason for an age limit, she said. "I could taste the blood from my nose," she said. Shanell DeRieux was married at 18 to a husband in the Kingston Group. The plans fizzled because her mother didnt believe DeRieux had received direction from God to marry the man. Former Order members tell of babies being born nearly every week in the church. But Stephanie Mattingly doesn't ever want to go back to her old life in the Kingston polygamous clan. The girl, who as an adult would unsuccessfully sue the clan, then walked miles to the nearest gas station, where she called the police. Earlier in its history, the Kingston Group had plural wives under age 18. Ron says the cults justification for its racism goes back to early Mormon teachings about a war in heaven between the forces of Satan and those of Jesus. In April Valdez's son, Tito, was arrested for disorderly conduct after a protest outside the courthouse. She also is a star of "Escaping Polygamy." A state court website says the judge must conclude that the marriage is voluntary and in the best interests of the minor.. They did so July 3, 2008, in Grand Junction, Colo, where records show two other couples from the Kingston Group married that day. A 16-year-old girl wept as she told a judge how her polygamist father took her to a remote family ranch near the Utah-Idaho border and whipped her with a belt because she rebelled against a marriage to his brother. Polygamy is outlawed in Utah, both by the states constitution, and in statute, where it is a third-degree felony, with a possible punishment of five years in prison. He would talk to them about marriage and thinking of whom to marry, Hansen said. Kingston faces up to 15 years in prison if convicted. John Daniel did not support her financially, in any way.". Girls in polygamous Kingston Group continue to marry as young as 15 Tucker recounted the clans version of the apocalypse, the End of the World War, a riff on a prophecy some ascribe to Joseph Smith, called The White Horse Prophecy. It begins with the potential groom. We would cause harm, he confessed. Stephanie Mattingly: "The hardest thing, actually, the most hardest thing, the way hardest thing, is accepting that you're not going to go to hell.". Kingston is the brother of church leader Paul Kingston. Finding one wasnt difficult. The new indictment describes how, in 2013, Washakie transferred $6.2 million to the Kingston Groups incorporated church or businesses operated by church members. What he told me was, Hansen said, Get her married so we dont have to take care of her anymore.. She does not favor a change in the marriage age. Utahs polygamous Kingston clan mixes incest and white supremacy with old-fashioned capitalism. It's hard to break away from anyone and everything you've ever known and loved.". No recordings or photos were allowed during the ceremony. National News Briefs; Father Gets Jail Time In Polygamy Beating Asked about these legends, Kingston spokesman Kent Johnson, explained via email that on occasion Order families have asked to spread the ashes of a child lost before or after birth at the Holy Spot. Snow said her marriage fell apart over her not liking the Kingston Group and her husband wanting to have another wife. (Jessicas dad and the young man had taken courses together at the University of Utah.) 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, Kingston's brother. DeRieuxs marriage effectively ended in June 2010. Johnson did not provide the raw data to support those statistics. Until losing an appeal, David Kingston denied having sex with his niece. She says marriages can be used in The Order to gain or maintain favor among the parents of the brides and grooms. 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. When Jessica Kingston was 15, her father told her she had four choices apparently the number of suitors who had spoken to him about marrying her. She faces up to 40 years in prison. Snow began dating men when he was 22. Kingston Daughter Speaks Out | KSL.com Does Mike Murdock's 58 days seed covenant really work? One of polygamist John Daniel Kingston's daughters has filed a $12 million sexual abuse lawsuit against three relatives who left the group. 1 choice for marriage is. But attorney Kristen Brewer, director of the Guardian Ad Litems office, described the 13-year-old as a battered child and the older teen as in a precarious position because of her family loyalty and experiences with the state system. 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. Mark Hansen, Fosters attorney, said Kingstons actions fall within a Utah law allowing corporal punishment. The girl said she had been married the previous October to her uncle, David O. Kingston, 32, a union arranged by her father. Stephanie told our Sandra Yi she doesn't want to go back. According to church lore, The Order came into existence when founder Charles Elden Kingston saw Jesus in the mountains above the familys settlement in Bountiful, Utah, inspiring him to create the DCCS in 1935. The Tuckers think this is all hogwash now, though they were programmed to believe it at the time. (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Rolwing said Rachel Kingston told other employees there was mold in the offices and sent them home while she destroyed evidence before IRS and FBI agents arrived. In Salt Lake County, for example, there were 45 marriages in which the bride or groom was 17 or younger, according to data from the county clerks office from Feb. 1, 2016, to April 10, 2018. Girls are told they will need to pray to God so he might show them who their No. Wife, mother latest to be indicted in federal fraud case connected to Daniel., That prompted Valdez to tell her, Call him Dad. The U.S. Department of Justice alleges Washakie made almost no biofuel and instead bought and sold products and fabricated papers to collect a tax rebate from the federal government. Jessica was given the list of suitors. Young also claimed Desert Tech had sold guns to Picatinny Arsenal, the research division of the U.S. military. Rachel Kingston, 63, was charged with five counts alleging fraud, money laundering and obstruction of justice. For that, she would have to be legally married to him. Reading or replaying the story in its The motions, the new indictment and the docket were all unsealed Tuesday morning before the hearing. One brother, John Daniel Kingston, was taken to court for neglecting this children. Thats what happened with Ron Tuckers family. Jessica Kingston said a girls devotion and attitude are often measured by her view of polygamy. The term 'cult expert' is not protected. When it comes to racist Sunday school lessons, the polygamous Kingston clan could teach the Ku Klux Klan a thing or two. When they arrived in Grand Junction, all three couples filled out the papers for a marriage license. What were taught is to love our neighbor, that all people, all races no matter who they are deserve to be loved, he explained. Jessica said her husband was on a group text that went around listing girls or women who had not yet married with jokes about how old the females were getting. Three weeks after Snow married a 21-year-old man in Davis County, Hansens 17-year-old daughter legally married a 24-year-old man in Salt Lake County. Daniel was arrested and eventually spent 28 weeks in a county jail for felony child abuse. A juvenile court judge ordered Kingston not to see his children, but the state is working to reunite Mattingly with her children. Snow also remembered being taught end-time prophecies, with a cleansing wherein the streets of Salt Lake City would run red with blood. Christopher Cherrington | The Salt Lake Tribune. Kingston Group, also known as the Davis County Cooperative Society. He said there were three," the girl testified. She's since left the marriage and wants the legal marriage age raised to 18. 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. Utah woman reveals what life was like growing up in a polygamist CULT It is believed to have about 1,000 members and a $150-million business empire in six Western states. DeRieux says she was still high school age when her father told her she needed to pray about whom to marry, get married and build The Order. Her father also started calling her mother and prodded her to pressure DeRieux to get married. Kingston's attorney, Daniel Irvin, argued that his client had done nothing wrong and was being persecuted for his. Utah District Court Judge Ben Hadfield sentences John Daniel Kingston, who pleaded no contest to having whipped 16-year-old daughter for fleeing arranged polygamous marriage with her uncle, David . deductible, Report a missed paper by emailingsubscribe@sltrib.comor calling801-237-2900, For e-edition questions or comments, contact customer support801-237-2900or emailsubscribe@sltrib.com. They should refrain from this decision until they can be well informed to make a mature and thoughtful decision before entering into marriage.. Given such incidents, could Order members be a threat to law enforcement? Like polygamy, incest is a third-degree felony in Utah, and as with polygamy, convictions are rare. John Daniel Kingston, who according to court testimony once had 14 wives, was on hand in 2011, when his sons held an open house at the Washakie production plant in Plymouth near Interstate 15 and the Idaho line. Let me rephrase that. Today, they tried to bring up a case back in 1998 in which Kingston plead no contest to severely beating his 16-year old daughter at the time, Maryann Kingston after she ran from the clan. No child deserves to be beaten or threatened with being beaten, and when they do, they deserve the help of our court, said 3rd District Judge Andrew Valdez. In secret videotapes of Order church meetings aired on Escaping Polygamy, Pauls nephew Nick Young, speaking from a church lectern, identifies himself as a numbered man, number 72, to be precise.
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