Sheena was sent to a small house to die, Rachel said, and she was forbidden to go outside her home. As one FLDS wife explained in the documentary’s trailer: the group believes that “the more wives, the more children you have, the higher in heaven you’ll be.” The documentary also addresses the fact that Jeffs had many, many wives and fathered a whole lot of children. He's been behind bars since 2011.īut that's not all. A 2008 raid on the Yearning for Zion Ranch near Eldorado, Texas, where Jeffs lived, led to his arrest and the imprisonment of several parishioners on child sexual assault and bigamy charges. The documentary details Jeffs' disturbing rise to power in the FLDS church, where he convinced thousands of followers that he was "The Prophet" and instituted strange, strict rules for people to follow. He's the central character in Netflix's new true crime documentary, Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey, which dropped last week. Warren Jeffs, the polygamist leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS) is currently serving a lifetime prison sentence for child sexual assault.
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