'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. We pass the house she grew up in with her mother, three eldest brothers, and father before he was kicked out of the cult. One is a first cousin. . Jonathan Turner, a professor of sociology at the University of California, Riverside, hypothesized exactly that, in an article published by the ABC news network in 2008. . Branches of the polygamist mans family left out of the genealogy will change the incidence of common ancestors and potentially mask the true disease risk and incidence in the community. In the polygamist cult of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, cousins were encouraged to marry in order to preserve certain bloodlines. Nobody, from the police to [the governor], cares that these children are abused from conception to marriage.'. 'And is that religion popular in heaven?' One man, who asks to remain nameless to protect his and his family's privacy, describes a lifetime of round-the-clock care and too-frequent hospital visits for his five sons. So many young people.'. . (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. The records of the marriages sealed at the Nauvoo Temple before the general exodus to Utah in the 1840s, may be the most important ones of all; yet, these are . "Joseph Smith Jessop and his first wife, Martha Moore Yeates, had 14 children. . . "Farm Roots of Incest: Marriages in the Kingston clan must be sanctioned by [the] current head of the church . . They have no movement. Still, he conceded that some Order members may have prejudiced beliefs because in our organization people have freedom of choice.. . " . Brother Elden died of penile cancer in 1948, despite the best efforts of some family members to burn away the cancer using acid. sr. . Supposedly, LaDonna had a dream wherein it was revealed that anyone who left The Order would be tainted by black blood. . . . _____. 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 . "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. Two of her sisters married their first cousinsmen with whom they share the same grandfather; the sons of their father's second wife, who is their mother's full sister. 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. "'One lady I know, she just cannot physically pick [her son] up anymore to get him into the bathtub,' Wyler says. "But this is a very unlikely scenario for FLDS faithful, who practice a religious doctrine that requires men to be strictly obedient to religious leaders and requires women to give birth to as many children as possible to increase the sect's numbers. "'Those boys are the most moral, upstanding and wonderful people I know,' she said, clutching a grandchild to her thin hip. . "Last year, a 16-year-old daughter of John Daniel Kingston was forced to marry her uncle, David Ortell Kingston, criminal charges allege, . "There is too little empirical data of uncle-niece, half-brother/half-sister mating to draw firm conclusions about the IQ, survival rates, birth defects or longevity of their offspring, he says. 'Children should not be victims of such programs.'. My great-grandfather, like scores of English immigrants eager to escape a life of poverty, . Kingston -- the late enigmatic leader and church prophet who built the 1,500-member Kingston clan into a multimillion-dollar business empire while allowing many of his purported 13 wives and dozens of children to survive on government assistance. . "Outside, people don't die that often, and usually they're really old.". . "Sterility is another consequence of consanguinity and the evidence of many sterile polygamous wives is overwhelming. This is all compounded by the split between the FLDS and an offshoot group of polygamists that moved to nearby Centennial Park following a disagreement over how the community should be governed, and by whom). 15, p. 227, "Monogamy, or restrictions by law to one wife, is no part of the economy of heaven among men. . "If both parents are descendants of polygamy, the children may be at even greater risk. 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. Structural birth defects are related to a problem with the structure of body parts. If you find a grave up there that's not marked, that's the way Fred wanted it.". . . Isaac Wyler, a former FLDS member who was excommunicated from the church . . 'As soon as I saw her, I knew she had the same thing as her brother,' Tarby says. "Victims suffer a range of symptoms, including severe epileptic seizures, inability to walk or even sit upright, severe speech impediments, failure to grow at a normal rate, and tragic physical deformities. Former clan prophet John Ortell Kingston, who died in 1987, paid the Medicaid bills for a child born with severe birth defects after Utah investigators linked the wealthy father of more than 65 children to the baby. Still more, rather cryptically, feature child-size palm and footprints. One recent morning [John Ortell's niece and third wife, Mary Gustafson] defended her complicity in arranging her daughters' marriages to their half-brothers, sons of John Ortell and LaDonna. on the history of the fundamentalist community. . '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. "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. ", (Joseph Carroll, "One in Four Americans Think Most Mormons Endorse Polygamy; Only 2% Think Most Americans Support Polygamy," by Gallup News Service, Princeton, New Jersey, 7 September 2006, at: http://www.gallup.com/poll/24388/one-four-americans-think-most-mormons-e). Family members attribute the defects to the advanced ages of the mother and father -- he was 64, she was 45. "'I knew I would have to marry my [half-] brother ever since I was 12,' says the woman. "Rather than polygamy being about religion, Moore-Emmett believes that many polygamous marriages are about sex and power. ', "Wyler says he has seen some fumarase deficiency children who can walk, but others can barely move and spend their entire lives prone. The notoriety will just make them zoo specimens. These can include: Cleft lip or cleft palate; Heart defects, such as missing or misshaped valves; Abnormal limbs, such as a clubfoot; Neural tube defects, such as spina bifida, and problems related to the growth and development of the . . Is Jasper always unspirited and stony-broke when outvalue some Heisenberg very . "An unknown number--but believed to be in the thousands--of Barlow/Jessop descendants carry the recessive gene that causes fumarase deficiency. . D. Michael Quinn, former Brigham Young University professor, states, 'The Mormon practice of polygamy enabled men to marry daughters, nieces, cousins, granddaughters and former wives of other General Authorities.'. 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. In another, Order attorney Carl Kingston warns listeners about marrying up with Hams kids, a reference to the aforementioned Biblical curse. And they are growing. 'And when you talk about the public interest, you have to consider who pays for the consequences. 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.. 'And their claim is they marry closely to preserve the royal bloodline, so to speak.'. . The clan avoids hospitals, believing government-backed doctors might inject them with a mysterious disease or demand birth records exposing the Order's lifestyle. Kingston clan birth defects. Tarby. Fear began to overwhelm me, for the future, and for my own son. The chickens are coming home to roost. Local Policing and Immigration Enforcement, Request for Legal Assistance Economic Justice. . he says. . . . . . . But Dawna disagrees: "I think it was actually, you know." ", ("Mormon Polygamy: Frequently Asked Questions," at: http://www.i4m.com/think/polygamy/polygamy_summary.htm). "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.' "A few years later [my cousin's] sister . . Ex-order members interviewed by the Intelligence Report generally agreed with the characterization of the Kingston clan as a hate group.. This is a humane coping strategy devised to deal with a dilemma that devastated a woman taught from birth her only value was in the number of children she bore for the Kingdom of God. Lucky was the first to die in my generation. Brigham Young calling some one else a thief especially "women thieves" ABSOLUTE HILARITY ! . Some of you may not believe this, but I not only believe it but I also know it. . "John Ortell Kingston was the first Kingston to experiment with incest, marrying and bearing children with two half-sisters and two nieces, according to numerous ex-members of the clan. . Sex. . "Dr. Vinodh Narayanan, a pediatric neurologist at St. Joseph's Hospital, says he is seeking funding to develop a test that would allow public health officials to collect voluntary blood samples from as many FLDS members as possible. Initially, she tried to conceal her marital relationship. . 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.". 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. Or was it true no one knew the answers, because they could not be known, because no one wanted to know? For instance, Quinn writes, '[O]ver 20 General Authorities were married to such lesser known wives.' . . Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints elders, who control the community, have labored to keep the public from finding out why the disorder is manifesting. "The ultimate decision on marriages rests with FLDS Prophet Warren Jeffs. . . The Kingstons teach that they are descended from Jesus Christ and these incestous marriages are intended to keep the bloodline pure, but instead have resulted in numerous Clan members being born with disabilties or birth defects, and it's not really that surprising to note that at one point during the second season of Escaping Polygamy, one of "It's doesn't stop anybody," Dawna says. 'If you stop the sexual predation, you stop the genetic problem as well. Ron Kingston says The Orders leadership has too much to lose for something like that to happen. lucky "In addition, the Mormon Church touts itself as the quintessential traditional family values church . Breeding within, as Mormons did--endogamous polygamy--is virtually never practiced. Jeremy was nearly 10 years her senior at the time. He tells community residents that they should undergo genetic screening before marriage, but they've ignored the suggestion, Tarby said. His seven sons and two daughters by LaDonna Peterson, the second of his 13 wives, are reputed to be the inner circle that runs the cult. . "'Warren has to be really careful that he doesn't lose his position as a god to these people,' Wyler says. Martha's husband was "Uncle" Fred Jessop, longtime Bishop to the FLDS people, who died in 2005 at 94, after being dragged from state to state by Warren Jeffs in what many ex-members believe was a transparent scheme of murder-by-stress: Dragging around a physically ailing, elderly man in need of constant medication is one way to kill a person without committing any outright murderous act, they say. "John and Charles' brother, Merlin Barnum Kingston, married and had children with four nieces and a half-sister, say ex-members, including one of his own daughters. But in a 2News . But given that the Kingstons command an estimated 6,000 adherents, boast a business empire reportedly worth as much as $1 billion and have outlasted myriad bouts with law enforcement and the press, these dreams of world domination may be less delusional than they first seem. The FLDS believe they are practicing the one true religion as Prophet Joseph Smith intended it to be. Everyone knows it's happening, few talk about it unprompted, it just sort of..is. . The FLDS already has moved several hundred men, women and children to the compound, many of whom very likely carry the fumarase deficiency gene. 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. . 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. . ". But by 2006, Dr. Theodore Tarby, of Arizona, had discovered at least 20 more children living with the condition in Short Creek, all within just blocks of each other. The FLDS split off from the mainline Mormon (LDS) church in 1890 after the church denounced the principal of plural marriage. And then there are the more livable genetic conditions. Only the FLDS prophet can arrange and perform polygamous marriages, and those marriages are taking place in a community in which almost everybody is related. Kingston Polygamy Order Birth Defects Glutenous Kalvin asphalts lentissimo. 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. LGBT people fare little better in the Kingston clan. From her article, "Fatal Inheritance: Mormon Eugenics": "[My] cousin], [her sister] and I all grew up to marry and start families of our own. ', "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.'. At the time this inbreeding took place these prophets preached and practiced modern eugenic science, the science of controlling the traits of future populations through selective breeding for idealized traits like blond hair, blue eyes and tall stature. . . . "Until the test is available, Tarby says, the best prevention measure remains refraining from crossing Barlows, Jessops and their relations--who make up half the population of the polygamist enclave. . Her disobedience incurred the wrath of her father Daniel, who took her to a family ranch near the Idaho border and savagely beat her. . The girl's father and mother, Susan Nelson (one of John Daniel's many wives) are half-sister and brother. materials or even attempted to focus team and society have a kingston clan member was charged with birth defects increase becomes apparent similarities than. 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. Outwardly, she appeared to have no sex organs. Nothing has come of the raids yet, and the IRS refused comment on the matter when contacted by this publication. ". Johnson maintained that The Orders vast array of businesses which includes a grocery store, pawn shops, a garbage disposal business, an insurance company, a politically-influential biofuels plant, and a high-end firearms manufacturer employs individuals of various racial and ethnic minorities. . . 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. This is the equivalent of a religious rationalization for the practice of incest. "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. This is why the state and federal government enacted legislation against polygamy. Yeah, I believe in it, he said. Most populations outbreed and so these lethal genes rarely match to cause any serious diseases. . 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. 'He wanted to control his children and grandchildren through genetics. Now let me just simply state: He took care of them. "Fumarase deficiency is caused by a lack of the fumarase enzyme, an essential component in a biological process called the Krebs cycle, which converts food into energy within each cell. Allison, a 17 year-old ex-Kingston member says not much has changed since Lu Anns day. refuse to accept advice from any outsider, including doctors such as Tarby, who has treated their children for years. Sisters married the same man in polygamous celestial weddings; brothers from one family married sisters from another (meaning their kids are double cousins). ". "They've got this idea that their blood is pure and that they want to keep it pure.'. Kingston forebears were among those who suffered this fate. KUTV When several businesses inside the Kingston polygamist empire, including Washakie Renewable Energy, was raided by federal agents Wednesday, officials where tight lipped. The familys dedication to the principle of polygamy already had been established by Kingstons father, who had three wives. . I think most people are made aware of the problems caused by inbreeding (a nicer word than incest) when they are still young teenagers. I wonder aloud. They maintain a secretive but powerful presence in Utah's Salt Lake Valley, and their estimated 7,500. Dawna Black Bistline (Alyssa Bistline's father's brother's wife) has seen firsthand how the children of cousins suffer. Chapter 2: The roots of a tortured clan By Western standards, Mohammad Shafia is not an educated man; born in middle-class Kabul in. . . Isaac Wyler, another lifelong Colorado City resident who was excommunicated from the FLDS in January 2004. "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. . 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. ", -Apostle Heber C. Kimball, "Journal of Discourses," vol. In 1999, Pauls younger brother David Ortell Kingston was convicted of taking his 16-year-old niece as wife number 15. From the article, "Fundamentalist Latter-day Saints Genealogy and Polygamy Problems": "The gene pool is . They can't sit up. 'Her body tried to miscarry many, many times.'. 'If you cross a Barlow and Jessop, you stand a high risk of getting this condition,' Tarby says. Re: Polygamy's Patriarchy-Poisoned Bloodline: The Genetic Catastrophe That Has Sprung from Joseph Smith's "Divine" Breeding Program of Mormon Mutation . Due to the Kingstons convoluted genealogy, Lu Ann was both his first cousin and his aunt. They are quick to point out to reporters that they no longer practice polygamy and excommunicate members who continue to do so. 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