(Photo courtesy Shanell DeRieux) John Daniel Kingston, front center, kneels in front of three of his daughters as they hold their wedding certificates July 3, 2008, in Grand Junction, Colo. Shanell DeRieux, second row left, was 18; the other two girls were 16. The memorial was held in Maxwell Park in Hildale, Saturday, Sept. 26, 2015. Jessica as well as Snow, DeRieux and Hansen all favor raising the legal marriage age in Utah and other states to 18. Girls in polygamous Kingston Group continue to marry as young as 15 The girl said she walked seven miles to a service station and called police. Nevertheless, former members of The Order say that incest and racism are inextricably linked in The Orders teachings. Donate to the newsroom now. Christopher Cherrington | The Salt Lake Tribune. Marriage preparation can accelerate at puberty. John Daniel Kingston regularly subjected two of his teenage daughters to abuse and neglect, and the girls' mother Heidi Foster, one of Kingston's estimated 14 wives failed to protect them, a juvenile judge ruled Thursday. In 1999, Kingston spent 28 weeks in jail after pleading no contest to felony child abuse for beating one of his daughters, then 16, for fleeing . Heidi Mattingly's says she understands that Stephanie does not want to come home. Mark Hansen, Fosters attorney, said Kingstons actions fall within a Utah law allowing corporal punishment. Kingston forebears were among those who suffered this fate. The battle took place in the spiritual pre-existence that Mormons believe all souls come from. Former members of the sect say there may be dozens or even hundreds more marriage certificates at county clerk offices across the West. 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. So it means being a first [wife]. Utahs polygamous Kingston clan mixes incest and white supremacy with old-fashioned capitalism. Ron Kingston says The Orders leadership has too much to lose for something like that to happen. Something along the lines of, to build a superhuman, if you have four or five defects to get the one good one, its worth it, he recalled. And that's the hardest thing to accept.". Why is Frank McCourt really pushing it? Three of his wives are his half-sisters. Before the call ended, Young insisted that he didnt admit to any kind of incest or anything. When Intelligence Report inquired if Young thought there was anything wrong with first cousins getting married, Young opined that such issues were between the individuals involved and God. If the father believes his son received true direction from God, the son is sent to Paul Kingston or one of the people he designates to consider marriages. The Tribune, with assistance from former sect members who reviewed the records, also found 20 cases in which both the bride and groom were at least 18. Prosecutors have alleged the fraud amounted to almost $511 million, with the money going to the purchase of property in Turkey, among other things. Members of The Order are taught they need to be in a plural marriage to reach the highest heaven. In it, black people come close to killing off the white race until they are countered by Native Americans, symbolized by a Red Horse, which gallops to the White Horses rescue. Black people supposedly suffered from multiple scriptural curses, from the mark of Cain and Noahs curse on Ham in the Old Testament to the racist tenets of early Mormonism that have since been renounced or abandoned by the mainstream Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, also known as the LDS or Mormon church. Lawful marriage and the way it binds people together legally and financially, Hansen said, is seen as a way to keep the more rebellious girls in the Kingston Group. Stephanie told our Sandra Yi she doesn't want to go back. The relations are distant enough they wouldnt encounter any of Utahs prohibitions on marriage between siblings, first cousins or aunts/nephews and uncles/nieces. Brother Elden died of penile cancer in 1948, despite the best efforts of some family members to burn away the cancer using acid. Browning sees similarities between The Order and the religion-minded racists of the World Church of the Creator and the Christian Identity movement. Asked about these legends, Kingston spokesman Kent Johnson, explained via email that on occasion Order families have asked to spread the ashes of a child lost before or after birth at the Holy Spot. Businesses owned by Kingston Group members are often considered to be consecrated to the sect. I guess I just had too much soy, Snow smiled. Most of the time, said Shanell DeRieux, a former Kingston Group member now seen on Escaping Polygamy, the girls only choice is to have babies because thats how we build The Order by population.. But Jessicas No. The couples divorce became final in 2011. Rolwing said John Daniel Kingston has some amorphous stewardship over Washakie Renewable Energy.. Sally Kingston is charged with one count of conspiracy to commit mail fraud and one count of money laundering. The young women ranged from about age 18 to 22. Snow began dating men when he was 22. Jeremy was nearly 10 years her senior at the time. Local Policing and Immigration Enforcement, Request for Legal Assistance Economic Justice. The Order denies that it encourages racism and homophobia within its ranks. When this got around to his dad, his father packed up Snows belongings and left them in the room of a hotel owned by The Order. A juvenile. Information in the story may be outdated Main Street Church. She favors raising the legal marriage age to 18. The memorial was held in Maxwell Park in Hildale, Saturday, Sept. 26, 2015. Kingston, 44, pleaded no contest in April to child abuse, a third-degree felony, for belt-whipping his then 16-year-old daughter after she fled from an arranged polygamous marriage to his brother last year. The girl, who as an adult would unsuccessfully sue the clan, then walked miles to the nearest gas station, where she called the police. The next night she returned to her mother's Murray home and the mother called her husband. The Utah Attorney General's Office filed a motion today, requesting that Judge Andrew Valdez recuse himself from the case. While much of the focus of any polygamous group is on plural marriages that happen outside the law, records and interviews with current and former first wives in the Kington Group lend insight into how legal marriages are facilitated. His battles with the church arent over, How Palm Springs ran out Black and Latino families to build a fantasy for rich, white people, U.S. says 20,000 Russians killed in Ukraine war since December, Speaker Kevin McCarthy addresses Knesset amid fraught U.S.-Israel ties, First Republic: Cheap, interest-only jumbo mortgages to Silicon Valleys elite fueled the banks failure, SpaceX used wildlife preserve as dumping ground for space waste, lawsuit alleges, Judge blocks Missouri rule that would limit transgender care. That is one reason why we can provide this research service free of charge. Judge Dismisses Suit Against Kingston Beating Victim - Rick Alan Ross In a search of public records created since the start of 1997, The Salt Lake Tribune found 65 marriages among members of the Kingston Group in which the bride was 15, 16 or 17. He was jailed for beating his daughter into. When a girl doesnt want to be a polygamist, that information is shared among boys and men in the sect. Not desiring to be a plural wife doesnt necessarily mean she hoped to leave the Davis County Cooperative Society, also known as the Kingston Group. The trial of the man, David Ortell Kingston . The Tuckers think this is all hogwash now, though they were programmed to believe it at the time. Kingston was an accountant for the Latter Day Church of Christ, one of Utahs most secretive polygamous sects. Lu Ann Kingston was 15 when she married her first cousin Jeremy Kingston in a hush-hush 1995 wedding in Bountiful, Utah. Youre just supposed to get married as young as you can, said the now-26-year-old. New indictments were not a surprise. He says The Order regards homosexuality as a choice. Polygamist David Ortell Kingston was released from prison Tuesday after serving four years of a possible 10-year sentence for incest with his underage niece, who testified that she was forced to become his 15th wife. In 1999, Pauls younger brother David Ortell Kingston was convicted of taking his 16-year-old niece as wife number 15. He told her he believed one did not need to practice polygamy to reach heaven. For now, Utah law says a 15-year-old may marry with the consent of a parent or guardian and the permission of a juvenile court judge. Young denied that The Order was racist or taught any form of bigotry, and said he had people of all races working for him. 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. Rolwing wanted the women to post a $10 million bond the same amount Jacob Kingston has offered to leave jail pending trial and sought to bolster his argument by explaining prosecutors view of the case to Judge Paul Warner. Does Mike Murdock's 58 days seed covenant really work? The Polygamy Dilemma Is Plural Marriage a Dead Issue in Mormonism? Rachel Kingston, 63, was charged with five counts alleging fraud, money laundering and obstruction of justice. It is believed to have about 1,000 members and a $150-million business empire in six Western states. Rolwing said Rachel Kingston told other employees there was mold in the offices and sent them home while she destroyed evidence before IRS and FBI agents arrived. In secret videotapes of Order church meetings aired on Escaping Polygamy, Pauls nephew Nick Young, speaking from a church lectern, identifies himself as a numbered man, number 72, to be precise. Tomorrow's Deseret Morning News will have much more on the case. Jessica saw the list. In a letter to the Intelligence Report responding to allegations made by former members, Kent Johnson, a spokesman for the Davis County Cooperative Society, claimed that The Orders foundational principles include the Golden Rule, and that the church rejects any form of racism or bigotry. Former and current members of the Kingston Group say that kids are taught from a young age they one day will need to pray about whom to marry. Ortell died in 1987, but his progeny continued the polygamy, the inbreeding and the marriages to young female teens that he instituted. But anti-polygamy activists and lawyers for the accused question if it's revenge for speaking out against the Kingstons. He is one of the top men in the sect, though he has not been charged with any crimes in the case. Daniel Irvin, Kingstons defense attorney, had characterized the case as about a stupid pair of earrings, kids who want one thing and parents who want another in his closing arguments. (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Her disobedience incurred the wrath of her father Daniel, who took her to a family ranch near the Idaho border and savagely beat her. Jessica suspects her dad was pushing her toward another man. Stephanie is in state custody and officials are aware she's talking us. Donate to the newsroom now. She since has been placed in foster care. minutes. And no, you're not going to go to hell because you don't want to get abused.' More troubling, during a contentious 2004 custody case that ensued when Jessica and her sister Andrea fled Daniel Kingstons household, a judge in the case reportedly was the subject of a death threat, allegedly from Kingston clan members. DeRieux was photographed in Layton, Wednesday, July 11, 2018. Jessicas father relented during the meeting and gave his approval for his daughter to marry her No. Their trials are scheduled for May. But Jessica knew the longer she waited to wed, the more likely she would have to become a polygamist and the more likely her husband would be far older than she was. At age 10 she worked full time and helped support her mother. A 1999 Salt Lake Tribune article mapped the Kingstons incestuous family tree, quoting one of Ortells 65 kids, ex-Order member Connie Rugg as saying, My father experimented [with] inbreeding with his cattle and then he turned to his children.. One woman who was married in 2014 at age 16 said she did so for the same reason most people do: She fell in love. Spokesmen for both the U.S. State Department and for Picatinny Arsenal could neither verify nor deny Youngs claims. DeRieuxs marriage effectively ended in June 2010. Nothing has come of the raids yet, and the IRS refused comment on the matter when contacted by this publication. She wants to be adopted by her foster family, and one day become a police officer and help abused kids. DeRieux remarried at age 21 to a man who isnt from the Kingston Group. She was right there, Brewer said. And they are growing. According to church lore, The Order came into existence when founder Charles Elden Kingston saw Jesus in the mountains above the familys settlement in Bountiful, Utah, inspiring him to create the DCCS in 1935. There shouldnt really be a reason for an age limit, she said. Still, she says, it's very important to her that she get all her children back. David Kingstons 16-year-old wife was the daughter of another brother, John Daniel Kingston, who was sentenced to 28 weeks in jail for severely beating his daughter after she attempted to flee the marriage. Utah woman reveals what life was like growing up in a polygamist CULT For now, the five defendants are the three men charged in August: brothers Jacob and Isaiah Kingston, the chief executive officer and chief financial officer, respectively, of Washakie Renewable Energy; one of the business associates, Lev Dermen; and the two women whose indictments were unsealed Tuesday, Rachel Kingston, 63, and Sally Louise Kingston, the 41-year-old wife of Jacob Kingston. Earlier in its history, the Kingston Group had plural wives under age 18. Chinese people were called stupid, and Mexicans were dirty, said Lu Ann, adding, because of their skin.. Due to the Kingstons convoluted genealogy, Lu Ann was both his first cousin and his aunt. Ex-order members interviewed by the Intelligence Report generally agreed with the characterization of the Kingston clan as a hate group.. In February 2004, the two eldest daughters of John Daniel Kingston and Heidi Mattingly Foster alleged Kingston told them to remove their pierced earrings or he would pull them out.. rules, Utes seeing transfer portals impact on college gymnastics. The familys dedication to the principle of polygamy already had been established by Kingstons father, who had three wives. Twenty-eight times her father, John Daniel Kingston, whipped her, she testified, before she apparently passed out.On Wednesday, 1st District Judge Ben Hadfield ordered Kingston, 43, a prominent member of a Utah polygamist group, to stand trial for the May 24 assault on the girl. The U.S. Department of Justice alleges Washakie made almost no biofuel and instead bought and sold products and fabricated papers to collect a tax rebate from the federal government. Young also claimed Desert Tech had sold guns to Picatinny Arsenal, the research division of the U.S. military. Another of the cults teachings was that soy can make you gay, an anti-government conspiracy theory popular in some right-wing circles. You have that right.. They fled and contacted relatives, who called the Division of Child and Family Services. Photographs of the injuries were introduced at the hearing. Nor are youths from polygamous sects the only teens who marry in Utah. Both he and Dermen have pushed for prosecutors to accelerate the disclosure of evidence so the cases can move to trial. This archived news story is available John Daniel did not support her financially, in any way.". The largest biodiesel producer in Utah, Washakie held an open house in Plymouth on Thursday, Sept. 1, 2011, to showcase its new production facility. Another is a first cousin. But Stephanie Mattingly doesn't ever want to go back to her old life in the Kingston polygamous clan. She says that's partly because her mother doesn't plan to leave the Kingston clan. Both women are daughters of John Daniel Kingston, a patriarch of the Latter Day Church of Christ, also known as the Davis County Cooperative Society, which practices polygamy and has more than . She and her husband had four children with whom they share custody. She said that 54 months of attention from the Division of Child and Family Services, dating back to 1994, had failed to resolve the squalor and neglect in Fosters home. Kingston Daughter Speaks Out | KSL.com When it comes to racist Sunday school lessons, the polygamous Kingston clan could teach the Ku Klux Klan a thing or two. All rights reserved. One of the seven brothers was John Daniel Kingston, the father of the main stars of "Escaping Polygamy." TV Premiere and premise of "Escaping Polygamy" She said her father didnt think the suitor was a good student. The girl suffered a swollen nose, cut lip and deep bruises on her arms, buttocks and legs, according to testimony. Salt Lake City, USA - Polygamist John Daniel Kingston has been granted unlimited contact with the children he has with Heidi Mattingly by a judge who ended the couple's prolonged child welfare case. So what about polygamy? Snow says she chose to get married to escape an abusive living situation. Psychological evaluations of Kingston and Foster; Kingston to fill out a child support worksheet to determine what financial aid Foster and her children should receive; Mental and developmental assessments of the couples eight other children. Speaking of which: One way in which you can support us at no additional cost to you is by shopping at Amazon.com. Valdez ordered the girls to remain out of their home: The younger girl will remain with her aunt and uncle, and the older teen will be placed in a high-level foster home, with extended visits at home. A 16-year-old girl wept as she told a judge how her polygamist father took her to a remote family ranch near the Utah-Idaho border and whipped her with a belt because she rebelled against a marriage to his brother. Kingston daughter's lawsuit accuses 3 of sex abuse She does not favor a change in the marriage age. All rights reserved. Four of those appear to be couples from polygamous groups. By subscribing, you acknowledge and agree to KSL.com's, Crews searching for woman caught in Weber River, Man taking family camping near Utah Lake hit and killed; driver criminally charged, Westbound I-80 closed due to vehicle fire in Salt Lake City, Utah-based Extra Space Storage to merge with Life Storage in nearly $13B deal, Utah launches statewide turf grass buyback program as it seeks water-use reformation, Have You Seen This? 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. Hansen said during family home evenings nights when a mans family gathers for religious studies and games her husband would take girls 12 and older who were single and lead them in a teaching. There also is a link to a Change.org petition to have. While Jacob Kingston might have been the public face of Washakie and the most culpable, Rolwing said, his mother drafted forms to submit to the federal government and showed others how to file false information. 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. An account controlled by the sect then returned $4.5 million to Washakie. The plans fizzled because her mother didnt believe DeRieux had received direction from God to marry the man. Parole board hearing officer Kent Jones said the evidence showed that Kingston forced himself upon a girl who was repulsed by him. Jessica said, strictly speaking, she and the other teen brides she knows chose to get married, but added: Its not much of a choice when theyre groomed to do that.. She also felt a religious call to wed and saw herself as mature enough to undertake such a commitment. Had Snow been a better behaved, more devout member of the Kingston Group, Hansen said, there may not have been a push to have her legally marry at 16. Andy Larsen: Heres where National Weather Service forecasts flooding, in the short term and the long term, Murray police officers were justified in their use of force against a 52-year-old man who died after arrest, Salt Lake County D.A. We havent gotten any big U.S. contracts, Young explained. (Photo courtesy of Kollene Snow) Kollene Snow, 16, poses in her dress before her 2009 marriage in West Valley City. The new indictment charges Jacob Kingston with 43 counts of filing false returns with the IRS, money laundering, threatening a witness and obstruction of justice. He orchestrated all unions within the cult, which was maintained with classic mind control techniques, corporal punishment, fasting and bizarre dietary practices. The girl said her father ordered her into his truck and they drove north. Dont the infant deaths and tales of horrific deformities belie Ortells homespun eugenics? It begins with the potential groom. Romero has said her concern is for all girls, not just those in polygamous sects. Estimated read time: 3-4 Jessica said her husband was on a group text that went around listing girls or women who had not yet married with jokes about how old the females were getting. It still hasnt been explained how anyone at Washakie would have known about the raid. David Kingston's 16-year-old wife was the daughter of another brother, John Daniel Kingston, who was sentenced to 28 weeks in jail for severely beating his daughter after she attempted. "I could taste the blood from my nose," she said. A retired Arizona law enforcement officer, Browning is the president and founder of the Skinhead Intelligence Network and is in charge of security for the A&E show, where his wife Tawni works as the casting producer. Dating or romance among young people before marriage is forbidden in the Kingston Group, but the sect does hold dances. 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. Shanell DeRieux was married at 18 to a husband in the Kingston Group. Their divorce was finalized in July 2012 a little more than three years after they married. The new indictments arrive as the three original defendants are challenging their detentions and the cases against them. The Kingstons - Modern Polygamy and Mormon Fundamentalism Jessica is hardly the only girl to make such a choice. Scott remembered that Ortell had an answer for that question. Now, former members say, girls who will be plural wives meaning they have only a spiritual marriage to their husband are left alone until they are 18 so laws about sex with a minor wont apply. CNN. MaryAnn Kingston's attorneys, John Morris, Bill Mark and Doug White, issued a . The marriages, former followers say, can be used as a tool to keep girls in the Kingston Group, known among younger members as The Order. For their part, the brides sometimes see legal marriages as a way to avoid becoming polygamists later (and consequently being matched with a husband perhaps twice their age) or a means to escape their parents crowded households. The sect will then return what money the business needs for operating expenses. DeRieux says she was still high school age when her father told her she needed to pray about whom to marry, get married and build The Order. Her father also started calling her mother and prodded her to pressure DeRieux to get married. It passed a bill adding forced marriage into the states definition of sexual abuse. You guys are the best parents in the world, and having one of you gone is like having an arm gone or my brain gone.. The groom was 21. Snow contends her mother was one of the people who told her she needed to think about whom she was going to wed. Photo by Nate Carlisle, The Salt Lake Tribune | Shirley Hansen, seen here July 21, 2018, stands along 2100 South near State Street in Salt Lake City. He walked out the front door at the prison about 10 minutes ago, said Jack Ford, spokesman for the Corrections Department. According to church lore, Charles "Elden" Kingston founded The Order after seeing Jesus in a cave. Recordings of church testimony given by various Kingstons serve as further evidence of the cults bigoted teachings. The new indictment describes how, in 2013, Washakie transferred $6.2 million to the Kingston Groups incorporated church or businesses operated by church members. While the sect is headquartered in Utah, members will travel to Colorado to wed because cousin marriages are legal there. Polygamist Is Convicted of Incest - The New York Times It was just the best choice, some say, among their bad options. Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune New website targets Kingston polygamous group - The Salt Lake Tribune He was jailed for beating his daughter into unconsciousness in 1998 after the girl, then 16, ran away from an arranged marriage to her uncle. Jacob Kingston has filed a motion for pretrial release and offered to post $10 million in bail. In order to maintain his familys superior bloodlines, Ortell married and had children with two of his half-sisters and two nieces. Young told Intelligence Report that his company has sold weapons, with the approval of the U.S. State Department, to governments in Europe and the Middle East, Saudi Arabia being one. A member of a polygamist clan today was convicted of incest with his 16-year-old niece, who testified that she had been forced to become his 15th wife. Who murdered polygamist wife and mother Carolyn Yvonne Kingston The younger girl will see her mother during counseling sessions and have supervised visits with her siblings. The girl said she did not remember leaving the barn, but woke up the next morning on a couch in the living room of a woman who former members say is one of John Daniel Kingston's 20-plus wives. In response to questions from the newspaper, Kent Johnson, a spokesman for the Davis County Cooperative Society, sent an email saying marriages should occur within the age of legal consent and not be coerced. She grew up in Woods Cross and hated The Order all her life, she said in a recent interview. He served one day in jail. Anyone can use it regardless of ability, approach, or level of acceptance by recognized authorities in the field. Paul would rather have the wealth and the money than the isolation and the conflict, he said. There are also accounts of dead babies being buried at the Holy Spot, a tree-shrouded patch of land across the street from a grade school in Bountiful, just north of Salt Lake City. When they arrived in Grand Junction, all three couples filled out the papers for a marriage license. The two most recent of those marriages, according to wedding certificates, occurred in April. That wasnt the only reason Jessica liked him. 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.. Lost boys (Mormon fundamentalism) - Wikipedia Kingston is believed to have approximately 100 children with around 14 wives. Allison, a 17 year-old ex-Kingston member says not much has changed since Lu Anns day. Let me rephrase that. Those two unions happened in Colorado, where its legal to marry your cousin. Jessica Kingston didnt want to be a polygamist. The charges could amount to 60 years in prison. A $300-million (minimum) gondola to Dodger Stadium? Kingston Has Trouble Remembering Some Children's Names on Stand
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