Stolen Innocence: My Story of Growing Up in a Polygamous Sect, Becoming a Teenage Bride, and Breaking Free of Warren Jeffs

Elissa Wall · Lisa Pulitzer

Oct 2009 · Sold by Harper Collins

About this ebook

“Both creepy…and quite moving.”
—New York Times Book Review

“Wall’s story couldn’t be more timely.”
—People

Stolen Innocence is the gripping New York Times bestselling memoir of Elissa Wall, the courageous former member of Utah’s infamous FLDS polygamist sect whose powerful courtroom testimony helped convict controversial sect leader Warren Jeffs in September 2007. At once shocking, heartbreaking, and inspiring, Wall’s story of subjugation and survival exposes the darkness at the root of this rebel offshoot of the Mormon faith.

Ratings and reviews

After reading the "19th" wife I had knowledge about the Mormon faith & about the unthinkable-Polygamy. This created religion started with Brigham Young. Young girls matched with older men for marriage. Some had to marry their moms/sisters husband's. A lot of incest in this religion based on fear. I'm so happy that young women of today are walking away from it. With the help of outsiders or men who left to help these girls leave the order. Very compelling true story. A constant page turner.

Tough read as I read it quite young, I'll re-read it again as I own the paper back book . It also did open my eyes about things I knew nothing about. Glad to know there are survivors out here. I'm glad she shared her story of her life. I wish others did NOT need to live their lives this way.

A very interesting read. I did not know anything about this sect of Mormonism. An informative look into plural marriage. It is amazing that despite what her religion did to her in the Name of God Elisa was able to separate her belief in God from the faulty ungodly practices of her former church. It's heartening she found love and a new life outside the church.

About the author

Elissa Wall is a former member of the FLDS church who was forced into marriage at age fourteen. She left the FLDS at age eighteen and she currently resides with her two children and her husband, Lamont.

Lisa Pulitzer is a former correspondent for the New York Times andcoauthor of more than a dozen nonfiction titles, including the New York Times bestsellers Stolen Innocence, Imperfect Justice, and Mob Daughter.