I didn't leave the church, i believe their conduct left the church. We were creating the perfect storm for Mr. Jeffs to commit this act.

Willie Jessop

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They were lighting these fire arrows and kind of making it a surprise.

People feel betrayed that their marriage was based on a fraud, here is somebody who says he speaks for God, and you find out he didn't. How do you deal with that?

They've lost their identity; Warren Jeffs took away even their identity, do you go by your mother's name, your father's name, your church name? Who are you?

We've got to get some adult supervision up here, our police department isn't interested in the civic well-being of anything.

All of our focus was on protecting Warren, protecting him legally, physically, financially -- any way we could find to protect him, and he was using that to be a terrible monster.

I owe it to every child I can find to get them in school, i owe every mother that needs help. I owe her that. And every father that's trying to find his kids, I owe him that.

The sounds of silence, do you get it? We should have known he was a perv. Didn't see it. How do you miss this? It was written on the subway walls. But the silence like a cancer grew.

What you see is a society in implosion.

I don't have to forfeit my town, I don't need to forfeit my relationship with my Heavenly Father, I just have to have some time to do a moral reset, a spiritual reset, a financial reset, a friendship reset.

I'm just so ashamed by all of this.