"'People don't like to talk about their fumarase babies for obvious reasons,' Wyler says. Bad harm. There are baby graves year that date back as earlier as the 1950s, potentially even earlier: many are unmarked. The Kingstons are a Mormon splinter group, founded in the 1930s by Mary's great-uncle Elden. ", "They took their lives," Ron says. Two are nieces. I promised myself to find out the truth when I grew up. . "'They are in terrible shape,' says Dr. Kirk A. Aleck, director of the Pediatric Neurogenetics Center at St. Joseph's Hospital. "'This problem is going to get worse and worse and worse,' predicts . Similarly, his older brother John Daniel Kingston has had 14 wives, four of them his half-sisters. "Joseph Smith Jessop and his first wife, Martha Moore Yeates, had 14 children. _____, --Petri Dishes of the Genetically-Destructive Effects of Mormon-Driven Polygamy: "Modern"-day Utah and Cross-Border Towns. 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. . . These wives sometimes became known, sometimes not. . The girl's father and mother, Susan Nelson (one of John Daniel's many wives) are half-sister and brother. And her ex-husband's parents, Merlin and Carolyn Kingston, were uncle and niece. . This child belongs to a family branch that [was] used in the U of U nephritis study. That's the big problem.' If two descendants of hierarchical polygamy marry, the chances for genetic defects increase if the families were ever interrelated. My aunt and uncle outlived two of their five children and two more may have nephritis. The Order can rightly claim discrimination by mainstream Mormonism, but this is due to its embrace of polygamy, which the LDS church officially abandoned in 1890 in order for Utah to become a state. . "'They are discouraging any new blood," historian Bistline says. They can't do anything by themselves. . Upon the creation of the LDCJC, most members of the DCCS . [Andrea] Moore-Emmett [author of 'God's Brothel: The Extortion of Sex for Salvation in Contemporary Mormon and Christian Fundamentalist Polygamy and the Stories of 18 Women Who Escaped'] contends that [in polygamy] incest, statutory rape, torture, physical abuse, forced marriages, and trafficking of girls is rampant. "Several Kingston offspring of incestuous couplings also have been born without fingernails, a disease that could be linked to a number of genetically caused abnormalities, although an exact diagnosis is impossible without closer study of medical records. "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. One of the survivors includes Amanda Rae Grant, who appeared on season two of A&E's "Escaping . "It's doesn't stop anybody," Dawna says. In 2011, Jeffs was sentenced to life in prison, plus 20 years. Yet, this practice may hide the actual genetic kinship and can further exacerbate genetic problems. . Daniels ultimatum: Stay in The Order, date no one, and have no contact with family. Aleck is a geneticist who participated along with Tarby and others in the groundbreaking study of several polygamous families with fumarase deficiency in the late 1990s. Thats what happened with Ron Tuckers family. Sisters married the same man in polygamous celestial weddings; brothers from one family married sisters from another (meaning their kids are double cousins). So when you see all of these diseases occurring in the children, it's possible some are the result of inbreeding.'. . In the 1980s, the state of Utah sued John Ortell Kingston over welfare fraud related to his many wives. As for its anti-government views, allegations of fraud against government entities have long dogged the Kingstons. . "Other possible genetic traits include: microcephaly, a malformation of the skull in which the infant has a small head (ex-members say two children with microcephaly have died and eight others are institutionalized); blindness; spina bifida; Down syndrome; kidney disease and abnormal leg and arm joints. And the Genealogy Department advises genealogists to follow only their direct line; in this instance meaning only the wife who is their mother, not other wives of their father. Mormon Church presidents and "prophet"-leaders have blamed monogamy a host of terminal afflictions that have been delivered upon the world. She also had a child with a clubfoot, and I think probably half of her children had respiratory problems when they were babies, because they were so related.". When it comes to racist Sunday school lessons, the polygamous Kingston clan could teach the Ku Klux Klan a thing or two. October 15, 2002: "There will be a viewing at father's house at 3p.m. 'Children should not be victims of such programs.'. Same family, second child, same period of life, a different fatal disease; was there a connection? Polygamy would have afforded the opportunity of producing from that consecrated fatherhood and motherhood the improved type of man the world needs to reveal the highest possibilities of the race, that the day of the super man might come, and with him come also the redemption and betterment of the race.'. "Gradually, I realized the practice of polygamy, especially in Mormondom, might be a prescription for genetic disease. The FLDS was formed by Mormons who refused to give up polygamy. . So, from the beginnings of Mormon Church history, we have LDS Elohim's hand of blessing placed upon the insidious institution of multi-wifing and forever-birthing. 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. . Desert Tech and its rifles have been featured on Fox News, Mythbusters, Daredevil and The Blacklist, among other TV shows. ", -Apostle Orson Pratt, "Journal of Discourses," vol. _____. Blacks were the less valiant people in heaven who sat on the sidelines while others took sides, according to The Order. "Some of the kids can walk, but others have a difficult time even sitting. "Recently, another cousin fathered a child born with spinal bifida, inherited paralysis, an anomaly related to nephritis. Chinese people were called stupid, and Mexicans were dirty, said Lu Ann, adding, because of their skin.. . Pentecostal There are times when it has gotten kind of gross, like when they marry an uncle to a niece. "My father and her grandmother were full brother and sister," she explains, recognizing the bloom of confusion on my face. Faced with the forced marriage to an uncle, Rugg left the Kingstons. She says her parents, Merlin Barnum Kingston (John Ortell's brother) and Joyce Fransden, were uncle and niece. . 'In the meantime, the taxpayers have to pay the bills. . . . . Almost everyone here is some variation of cousin, and, until Warren was locked up and decided to put a hold on all marriages, most men and women were paired together in order to preserve certain esteemed bloodlines. "If both parents are descendants of polygamy, the children may be at even greater risk. 3, p. 291, "I have noticed that a man who has but one wife, and is inclined to that doctrine, soon begins to wither and dry up, while a man who goes into plurality [of wives] looks fresh, young, and sprightly. . ". From her article, "Fatal Inheritance: Mormon Eugenics": "[My] cousin], [her sister] and I all grew up to marry and start families of our own. 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? This seemed to apply in my own kindred because those of us who left Mormonism and married outsiders are less riddled with the deleterious genetic legacy than relatives who married within the ancestral Mormon gene pool. 'I could choose, but it had to be a brother, uncle or cousin.' . . 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. 'And their claim is they marry closely to preserve the royal bloodline, so to speak.'. IF polygamy really is justified in increased breeding, and since MORmON Jesus did institute such a plan according to MORmON history at one time, then how come MORmON god does not follow through and have a lot more females born in such marriages as would be required mathematically to make His If you find a grave up there that's not marked, that's the way Fred wanted it.". 'They are totally helpless,' he says. , says he has firsthand knowledge of multiple fumarase deficiency children in each of the three families. Then he scooted away, smiling, aboard a plastic toy car, his feet smacking the sidewalk. "Have you ever heard of the term The Turkey Baster?" mating in a way that increases genetic diseases, that the public ends up supporting, it becomes a matter of public interest.'. The battle took place in the spiritual pre-existence that Mormons believe all souls come from. We would cause harm, he confessed. 'I don't know how many who die within the first two or three years that we don't even ever know about. The FLDS already has moved several hundred men, women and children to the compound, many of whom very likely carry the fumarase deficiency gene. . . . . . Still more, rather cryptically, feature child-size palm and footprints. ', "Aleck says the fact that so many people in the polygamist enclave are blood relatives of the founding Barlow and Jessop families 'shows the magnitude of the problem.'. "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. . unavailable to researchers. "Wyler said it's all part of the community's religious system. Another of Ortells teachings: Adolf Hitler had the right idea about creating a master race, but didnt have the Lords help, so he failed. But in a 2News . "Warren Jeffs, like Joseph Smith before him, has emphasized the importance of obedience among members of the church. Seated on a couch, sipping lemonade in his home in a Salt Lake City suburb, he resembles Paul Kingston quite a bit. "In May, the girl said she was belt-whipped by her father inside a Kingston-owned barn in Box Elder County for fleeing the marriage, and was abandoned in the home of another of John Daniel's wives. lucky The fact that most of the people in the Kingston clan were born into the lifestyle is very key to group think because this is all they know, and some may never question the beliefs even when they age because it has been their whole world all their life. "There is no doubt in the mind of any expert interviewed by 'New Times' that the practice of polygamy combined with inbreeding has fostered the spread of fumarase deficiency. Young is the owner of Desert Tech, a Utah gun manufacturer, which produces sniper rifles and so-called bullpup rifles, The latter, unlike conventional magazine-fed rifles, have shorter barrels, with the guns action located behind the trigger. . . . . Lucky was the first to die in my generation. http://www.azcentral.com/health/news/articles/0209PolygamyBirthDefect09- http://www.childbrides.org/taxes_PNT_forbidden_fruit.html, http://www.rickross.com/reference/polygamy/polygamy25.html. The teacher was like, You can never get that out, that is always there now, recalled Jessica, now 29. Which brings us back to the baby cemetery. Its ominous-sounding moniker, The Order, is a reference to the United Order, a quasi-utopian society proposed by LDS-founder Joseph Smith, and practiced in some Mormon communities under the leadership of early church president Brigham Young. Elden also instituted the church law of one above the other, requiring members blind obedience to the churchs hierarchy of numbered men, with Elden being Brother Number One. Once a baby is born with the condition, Aleck says, 'You really can't treat the underlying disorder.' . present a troubling scenario for law enforcement: these are crimes of a sexual nature committed in private in a closed society. . 'I really doubt that if we could tell them, you know, "This male has the condition and this female has the condition; you shouldn't mate," that wouldn't stop them,' he said. "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. [w]omen do not have the freedom to consider how often she can give birth and maintain her health. "Tarby said the victims require constant care from parents and close relatives. The girl, born to John Ortell and Isabell Johnson, was not the product of an incestuous marriage. It's also still rape with a foreign object, I remind us both unnecessarily. Practice sets 1,000-member Kingston clan apart from other Utah polygamous been born with birth defects, among them one born with two vaginas and two The polygamous town facing genetic disaster Apr 03, 2020 In a remote region of the US, a town is struggling with a chilling health crisis caused by a recessive gene. : About half of the 8,000 people living in the towns are blood relatives of two of the founding families that settled in the 1930s on the desolate high desert plateau against the base of the Vermillion Cliffs. 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.. "'We don't have a dad,' the little boy said. Re: Polygamy's Patriarchy-Poisoned Bloodline: The Genetic Catastrophe That Has Sprung from Joseph Smith's "Divine" Breeding Program of Mormon Mutation . . . One of the most devastating hereditary malformations is fumarase deficiency, a rare genetic condition marked by severe mental retardation and seizures. All are retarded, the neurologist told Salt Lake City television station KSL-TV. A stern disciplinarian, who in later years looked and dressed like a mortician, Ortell made incest a tenet of the clans faith, informed by his work breeding Holstein cows on the Kingstons dairy farm. . "Isaac Wyler, also a former follower of the church led by fugitive Warren Jeffs, told KSL that he was related by marriage to some of the victims. "It is important that Mormons fight the tendency to discount history and the actions of their leaders in favor of a faith- promoting history while neglecting important facts. . . 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. . "When asked, a little boy and girl at the home acknowledged who their mother is. 'But just on general principles, the offspring of uncle-niece, or half-siblings have an elevated level of genetic disease. A new television show called "Escaping Polygamy" focuses on young Kingston. ", ("Understanding Polygamy," from "Humanists of Utah, an Incorporated Utah Non-profit Corporation Has a Mission to Promote Joyful Living, Rational Think)ing, and Responsible Behavior," July 2005, at: http://www.humanistsofutah.org/2005/UnderstandingPolygamy_July-05.html) _____, --Inbreeding for the Lord: the Mutative Aftermath of LDS-"Inspired" Polygamy Among Mormonism's Doctrinal Adherents. the FLDS has the highest known rate of a rare genetic disorder called "fumarase deficiency" that causes severe birth defects. 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. Andrea grew up in a small two-bedroom home in a Kingston-owned coal Meanwhile, Mary Ann Kingston, 22, has brought a $110 million civil suit against 242 Order members and 97 companies they operate, claiming that they share collective responsibility for abuse she. [N]ew disease classifications belong at the door of the Mormon Church leadership. . . Or was it true no one knew the answers, because they could not be known, because no one wanted to know? Then, while still a young man, [my cousin] died of nephritis, the fatal family inheritance. [W]e directly condemn in action and in words, racist, homophobic or hateful actions against any group or individual, Johnson wrote. "Many of the parents did not want to have to deal with some of those children. ", -Apostle Heber C. Kimball, "Journal of Discourses," vol. on a 1,600-acre ranch outside of Eldorado. This is why those laws need to be enforced. "The fact that fumarase deficiency had shown up in one child was startling enough--there had only been a handful of cases reported worldwide. "'They claim to be the chosen people, the chosen few,' Bistline said. Some would say that is because it takes generations for certain inbred recessive genetic traits to manifest. . . 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. There is no doubt about that at all. 'We can only treat the complications of the disorder,' Aleck says. Geri and I ask the same question at the same time: "What exactly do you mean by took care of them? "Fast-forward . 'They think it is a test from God,' says Wyler, who was born and raised in the FLDS before he was booted out. . . I tell her I'm not sure, given the context. So what about polygamy? A simple urine test will reveal. . Now, let's examine how "God-ordained" Mormon polygamy has wreaked unholy genetic havoc on its faithful followers: --Case Study on Polygamous Mormonism's Genetic Disease Striking Home: The Linda Walker Story. Why is this? . Ex-order members interviewed by the Intelligence Report generally agreed with the characterization of the Kingston clan as a hate group.. Years of inbreeding have resulted in children born with serious birth defects. Kingston clan birth defects. ", -Apostle Heber C. Kimball, as quoted Stanley P. Hirshon, "The Lion of the Lord: A Biography of Brigham Young" [New York, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1969], pp. We pass the house she grew up in with her mother, three eldest brothers, and father before he was kicked out of the cult. "I remembered the studies conducted on my brother and I as children at the University of Utah . Ortell is credited with expanding The Orders business empire and making the family immensely wealthy. Wyler's ex-wife's sister has had two babies afflicted with fumarase deficiency. and cousins. "If female, they are married off to the few, powerful prominent males: incest is the fate of many teen-age girls. "While discussing health problems at a family gathering with some of my cousins wives, we discovered astonishingly that three out of four of us, all polygamy descendants, had borne a son with a clubfoot. His eldest died six years ago at 10 years old, he says, and another died in infancy, leaving behind two remaining brothers from a set of spontaneous identical triplets. An MRI of the brain of one fumarase deficiency child showed that more than half the brain was missing. These men are living freely in the Cane Beds area. "The leaders must also understand the ethical considerations of continuing behavior, he says, that is bringing children into the world who suffer tragic deformities. The first questions were about his background. Family members attribute the defects to the advanced I'm driving around Short Creek with Alyssawho is in Boise, Idaho, where she is a college sophomorepiped in through the bluetooth-enabled speakerphone in the rental car I'd picked in Las Vegas the previous night. "They've got this idea that their blood is pure and that they want to keep it pure.'. . . . 15, p. 227, "Monogamy, or restrictions by law to one wife, is no part of the economy of heaven among men. . Those twoand a fifth boyalso suffer from the condition that all of this family's sons were born with: x-linked hydrocephalus. . The lawyers words call to mind another heavenly curse, described in 2 Nephi, Chapter 5 of the Book of Mormon, where God caused a skin of blackness to come upon a group called the Lamanites, supposedly ancestors of Native Americans. And Jeffs so far has shown no indication that he is concerned about the increasing prevalence of fumarase deficiency children in the community, former FLDS member Isaac Wyler says. Ron Tucker went so far as to call his former brethren white supremacists, and ten times more racist than your run-of-the-mill skinhead. "Ex-members' claims of incest are bolstered by court records claiming John Ortell 'failed either to support or acknowledge' three children by his niece, (Susan) Mary Gustafson. "Now 16, Rugg's sister was married to and subsequently left one of her half-brother's sons. "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. Also known as the LDCJC, the Kingston Clan, and The Order, it is a religious organization created by members of the Davis County Cooperative Society or DCCS in 1977. They got married and contacted the . "When [my cousin] died, my childish vow surfaced and I began to look into my family history for some answers. and councilmen.' living in Colorado City and Hildale are blood descendants of the Barlows and the Jessops, says Benjamin Bistline, a lifelong resident of the area who has published a book . . Most populations outbreed and so these lethal genes rarely match to cause any serious diseases. . Local Policing and Immigration Enforcement, Request for Legal Assistance Economic Justice. . . . . In another, Order attorney Carl Kingston warns listeners about marrying up with Hams kids, a reference to the aforementioned Biblical curse. The most common birth defects for children born of close cousins, anywhere, are: harelip, cleft palate, clubfoot, and certain forms of heart valve conditions. In a portion of Warren Jeffs' Priesthood Record a mostly dry document that details his every move and meeting one entry, a written transcription of an announcement made by Warren at lunch with his late father's family, stands out as particularly creepy. "I didn't touch her; I just used a turkey baster," she mimics, rolling her eyes. . 'If you stop the sexual predation, you stop the genetic problem as well. "In 1996, the now 31-year-old Kingston mother of two slow-growing children sought explanations at Primary Children's Medical Center. Escaped members report some patriarchs believe it is their duty to give a daughter her first marriage lessons. "15 years ago, a strange-looking child suffering from severe physical maladies and acute retardation was brought into the office of [pedatric neurologist] Dr. Theodore Tarby. "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. "'My father manipulated and controlled people,' Rugg says. . They purportedly have 10 children, the girl told police. She's worked for lawyers who brought these cases to light and needed help with mormon terminology and ward politics workings. One of their daughters married another of the community's founding patriarchs and religious leaders, John Yeates Barlow. 'There are people that have married their nieces, people who have married their aunts,' he said. I began to think polygamy might be a genetically unsound marriage practice. The FLDS believe they are practicing the one true religion as Prophet Joseph Smith intended it to be. Still, he conceded that some Order members may have prejudiced beliefs because in our organization people have freedom of choice.. . In 2006, Warren Jeffs, then the president and prophet of the FLDS, was arrested and charged with accomplice rape, for just two of the underage marriages he had arranged. 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. Dawna Black Bistline (Alyssa Bistline's father's brother's wife) has seen firsthand how the children of cousins suffer. One nurse confided, 'We see too many trisome l3 and l8 babies.' . . 'They have to outbreed,' Aleck says. Structural birth defects are related to a problem with the structure of body parts. . Is Jasper always unspirited and stony-broke when outvalue some Heisenberg very . . According to many of the individuals interviewed for this story, these children are seen as special angels sent from God to the FLDS community. 'Escaping Polygamy' is a docuseries on Lifetime which follows the work of three sisters, who were able to break free from the polygamous Kingston Clan, known as the Order. Therefore, to keep the bloodline 'pure,' the Kingstons intermarry--half-brothers and sisters, uncles and nieces, aunts and nephews, and so forth. . Convinced they are breeding a pure white master race, they blame the mother if a deformed baby is born then preach she was unrighteous or unclean. Up to this point, Julie had treated the rumor like a joke. The two groups split when Dawna was growing up. "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. We cannot afford to neglect the possibility our ancestors practiced a form of marriage that was unhealthy and debilitating to our children, to us, and to society. . For a man of God to be confined to one woman is small business. The teacher added a drop of dye to the water, and the children watched as the blackness slowly spread. "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. "For us parents the future health and happiness of ourselves, our children and grandchildren are at stake. He was. He prepared urine samples and sent them to the University of Colorado Science Center's Dr. Steve Goodman, a professor of pediatrics who runs a laboratory that detects rare genetic diseases. 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. "They would hand them over and say, 'Would you mind please taking care of them, because we can't?' ", -Apostle George A Smith, "Journal of Discourses," vol. Although the official stance of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is against polygamy, several of the women's stories reveal that LDS leaders dismiss the deviant sects and blame the women who come to them for help. One outspoken Mormon matriarch who attended the same Sunday meeting for 50 years commented about the health of the polygamous descendants versus the monogamous descendants, 'You see it in the obituaries. "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. Snow also remembered being taught end-time prophecies, with a cleansing wherein the streets of Salt Lake City would run red with blood. Eventually, she admitted she had married her half-brother and given birth to three children. Isaac Wyler, another lifelong Colorado City resident who was excommunicated from the FLDS in January 2004. 'It's a bomb that's going to explode.'. Scott remembered that Ortell had an answer for that question. . But for their part, The Order and other fundamentalist sects believe the LDS church exists in a state of apostasy for abandoning what they see as a bedrock principle of their faith. Paul would rather have the wealth and the money than the isolation and the conflict, he said. I am convinced they do. . As bad as this past is, the mounting evidence is far worse. . . Some read simply, "Baby Keate," or "Baby Bateman," or "Baby Cooke," with holes where numeric date tiles might otherwise be placed. The samples could be tested for the gene at the Translational Genomics Research Institute in Phoenix. "You had a fairly diverse pool to start with, so only if that went on for a long time within this same population would you see real effects," he told ABC. . And another one of her sisters married one of my half-brothers, but we have the same blood and genetics because our moms are full sisters." Because God loves that man, and because he honors his word. 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