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. I began to think polygamy might be a genetically unsound marriage practice. Meanwhile, Mary Ann Kingston, 22, has brought a $110 million civil suit against 242 Order members and 97 companies they operate, claiming that they share collective responsibility for abuse she. Certainly the British and French education systems make it clear quite early on (13-14 yrs old). 13, p. 195, "We breathe the free air, we have the best looking men and handsomest women, and if they (non-Mormons) envy us our position, well they may, for they are a poor, narrow-minded, pinch-backed race of men, who chain themselves down to the law of monogamy, and live all their days under the dominion of one wife. "Some of the kids can walk, but others have a difficult time even sitting. . Geri and I ask the same question at the same time: "What exactly do you mean by took care of them? Fast-forward to 1990, a century after the LDS abandoned polygyny, and the upshot was only just beginning to emerge. This is why those laws need to be enforced. "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.' "Researchers have identified a gene on the first chromosome that causes fumarase deficiency, but no test has been developed that could be used to identify individuals carrying the malady. "Tarby says he quickly realized he was dealing with a very unusual condition that he could not diagnose. . . [N]ew disease classifications belong at the door of the Mormon Church leadership. Johnson also acknowledged hearing family lore dating to the Depression era of Order families burying fetuses from late-term miscarriages on their respective properties.. And Jeffs so far has shown no indication that he is concerned about the increasing prevalence of fumarase deficiency children in the community, former FLDS member Isaac Wyler says. Ron Tucker went so far as to call his former brethren white supremacists, and ten times more racist than your run-of-the-mill skinhead. Years of inbreeding have resulted in children born with serious birth defects. 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. . Three of his wives are his half-sisters. "In May, the girl said she was belt-whipped by her father inside a Kingston-owned barn in Box Elder County for fleeing the marriage, and was abandoned in the home of another of John Daniel's wives. Somehow LaDonnas curse was transferred to the Tuckers via Christy, Rons wife, because, Christys mom left The Order and married an Irishman, before leaving him and returning to the fold. . Thats what happened with Ron Tuckers family. Boys began to show interest in Julie as she matured, but Paul, as the clans leader, warned them away, because of Julies black blood. Ron Kingston says The Orders leadership has too much to lose for something like that to happen. 'They think it is a test from God,' says Wyler, who was born and raised in the FLDS before he was booted out. "In 1996, the now 31-year-old Kingston mother of two slow-growing children sought explanations at Primary Children's Medical Center. "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. on the history of the fundamentalist community. "The genetic defect has been traced back to one of the community's founding patriarchs, the late Joseph Smith Jessop, and the first of his plural wives, according to medical literature, the Mormon Church genealogy database and residents of the community familiar with Jessop and Barlow family histories. I owe my children and all children who risk becoming the next unwitting victims of this tragic genetic legacy the best information regarding the prevention of this lethal family inheritance that I can find. . refuse to accept advice from any outsider, including doctors such as Tarby, who has treated their children for years. . . Ron says the cults justification for its racism goes back to early Mormon teachings about a war in heaven between the forces of Satan and those of Jesus. "If female, they are married off to the few, powerful prominent males: incest is the fate of many teen-age girls. Tarby asked them to bring the girl to him for an examination. [I]t appears that Joseph Smith Jessop and his first wife also passed on the rare genetic disorder fumarase deficiency. 15, p. 227, "Monogamy, or restrictions by law to one wife, is no part of the economy of heaven among men. Modern interpretations of this passage vary, but The Order apparently takes quite literally this idea of blackness being a sign of iniquity. The enzyme irregularity causes severe mental retardation, epileptic seizures and other effects that often leaves children unable to take care of themselves. Tarby recounts a conversation he had with a member of the Barlow clan in which he tried to explain why so much fumarase deficiency was occurring among Mormon polygamists. "A few years later [my cousin's] sister . . . Andrea grew up in a small two-bedroom home in a Kingston-owned coal The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS) is a polygamous sect straddling the Utah and Arizona state lines; the twin towns of Hildale, Utah, and Colorado City, Arizona, are known collectively as Short Creek (pronounced "crick"). . "Her half-brother is still married to another half-sister (whose parents also were half-sister and brother) and are still members of the Kingston's order. died of multiple sclerosis, also leaving a family of small children behind. There is no doubt about that at all. The battle took place in the spiritual pre-existence that Mormons believe all souls come from. . Escaped members report some patriarchs believe it is their duty to give a daughter her first marriage lessons. "Sterility is another consequence of consanguinity and the evidence of many sterile polygamous wives is overwhelming. "Some are very debilitated and some aren't," he says. . "In this isolated religious society north of the Grand Canyon, few secrets have been more closely guarded than the presence of fumarase deficiency. "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. "Fumarase deficiency began to manifest in the community when three sets of Joseph Smith Jessop and Martha Moore Yeates' great-grandchildren married each other. The chickens are coming home to roost. "'Incest as a policy or routine practice is rare,' says Melvin Williams, a professor of anthropology at the University of Michigan and a leading expert in the study of kinship systems. Well, my sister had a little baby with a cleft lip; it was her first child and it had a cleft lip and cleft palate, because they were both Jessops, and Jessops are carriers of that gene. . A rare neurological disorder characterized by water on the brain, muscular stiffness, adducted thumbs and aphasia, x-linked hydrocephalus is expressed only in men and carried by women. deficiency. [in order] to reduce competition for wives. . If such a test were developed, a community-wide screening program could be instituted that would identify those carrying the fumarase gene. . "Another of Rugg's full sisters, Andrea Johnson, died in 1992 of complications of pre-eclampsia, a condition of pregnancy that was not treated until after the young girl, swollen with toxic fluid, was rushed to the emergency unit at University Hospital. . 'They are totally helpless,' he says. 'I could choose, but it had to be a brother, uncle or cousin.' In this regard, officially-canonized LDS scripture that currently endorses polygamy is not the only image problem for the Mormon Church (thank you, Warren Jeffs). ', "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.'. [T]he one-wife system not only degenerates the human family, both physically and intellectually, but it is entirely incompatible with philosophical notions of immortality; it is a lure to temptation, and has always proved a curse to a people. "While none of these can positively be linked to incest without DNA testing, geneticists say most of the conditions are exacerbated by incest. . "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. "It is possible that positive genetic traits could be passed along through human inbreeding. . Those affected by the genetic disorder suffer grand mal seizures and often have facial feature deformities and severe mental retardation, with IQs as low as 25. "Did this practice affect my family and other Mormon pioneer families adversely, possibly even in other momentous ways? Because God loves that man, and because he honors his word. . "All of the fumarase deficiency children Wyler has seen remain dependent on the parents or caregivers. "Farm Roots of Incest: Marriages in the Kingston clan must be sanctioned by [the] current head of the church . Until the 1990s, there were only 13 known cases of FD in the world. And it takes two of them to get him into the bathtub just to wash him down and clean him up.' . . 'I know this off the top of my head," Wyler says. "There were so many young children who were born with abnormalitiesharelips, club feet, heart valvesthat were they were going to die within a year," says Ron. ", And despite the LDS Church's highly suspect claim of having genuinely abandoned the doctrine and practice of polygamy in 1890 (see D. Michael Quinn's historically-devastating essay that got him excommunicated for telling the truth, "LDS Church Authority and New Plural Marriages, 1890-1904," at: http://www.lds-mormon.com/quinn_polygamy.shtml), many Mormons, in fact, still believe that the practice of multi-wifing will someday be reinstituted "[b]ecause the doctrine is still part of official Mormon scripture (see 'Doctrine and Covenants,' Section 132). "Religious leaders control all marriages in the community, and many of these relatives have married or likely will marry in the future. All of this is to say that incest and inbreeding have been going on for so longand so prevalentlyin the polygamous sects along the Utah/Arizona border that these stories have been woven into the fiber of the communities. . He prepared urine samples and sent them to the University of Colorado Science Center's Dr. Steve Goodman, a professor of pediatrics who runs a laboratory that detects rare genetic diseases. In 2003, Order member Jeremy Kingston pleaded guilty to incest for taking his first cousin, 15-year-old Lu Ann Kingston, as his fourth wife. "Tarby and a team of doctors from Barrow Neurological Institute at St. Joseph's Hospital in Phoenix and the University of Arizona College of Medicine in Tucson began researching the disease and soon discovered that fumarase deficiency was occurring in at least two other families living in the same isolated community that practiced an unusual custom. The 1996 Utah Legislature approved first-cousin marriages, only after age 65, or age 55 if the couple cannot conceive children. "Fred was in charge of the cemeteries, the gravediggers, all of that. Appointments & Access. The son of Pauls sister Rachel herself a daughter of Ortell and LaDonna Kingston Young was the only current member of the Kingston clan, out of the many contacted for this story, who consented to a live, on-the-record interview. SALT LAKE CITY (CN) Survivors of Utah's notorious Kingston clan filed a lawsuit seeking punitive damages against 22 Kingston members on Wednesday for sex trafficking minors born into the organization, sexual battery, child abuse and more. . In the 1980s, the state of Utah sued John Ortell Kingston over welfare fraud related to his many wives. 'Escaping Polygamy' is a docuseries on Lifetime which follows the work of three sisters, who were able to break free from the polygamous Kingston Clan, known as the Order. . . "'We have and will have a continual output of children with this condition,' Tarby says. The teacher added a drop of dye to the water, and the children watched as the blackness slowly spread. . . Up to this point, Julie had treated the rumor like a joke. "There was a guy out here who was married to a couple of young girls, and he was going to get in trouble because he was having children with these young girls, so he said, 'Well, I never had sex with themI used a turkey baster.'" The Cooperative itself was established in 1935. a royal priesthood upon the Earth, and he has introduced a plurality of wives for that express purpose.'. "These groups are white supremacists and inbreeding is an essential doctrine in keeping the bloodline pure. . . . It's also still rape with a foreign object, I remind us both unnecessarily. 'A lady comes in and helps her. I pass the dairy, the zoo, the park, the former birthing clinic, the condemned high school built on a foundation of adobe bricks, and so on. Seated on a couch, sipping lemonade in his home in a Salt Lake City suburb, he resembles Paul Kingston quite a bit. . 100 years later, eugenics is a discredited science, yet some followers still believe. Young declined to comment when asked if he practices polygamy. . They're given the utmost attention and care because the FLDS faithful believe everything in this life is a test before entering the celestial kingdom, and caring well for all of Heavenly Father's children is part of that test. . . Eventually, she admitted she had married her half-brother and given birth to three children. . "'My mother should not have produced another baby," says Rugg, also Isabell and John Ortell's daughter and the baby's full sister. "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. They got married and contacted the . sw. htm>. Asserting that 'the attitude between Mormons and Mormon fundamentalist polygamists is that of kissing cousins with more similarities than differences.' 'They have to outbreed,' Aleck says. There were so many young children who were born with abnormalitiesharelips, club feet, heart valvesthat were they were going to die within a year. . . "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. 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. Consanguinity is a reason why families bear children of only one sex--all sons or all daughters. Daniels ultimatum: Stay in The Order, date no one, and have no contact with family. For fun he and other Order men would go to a park frequented by gay males, looking for victims. . The early Mormon Church practiced polygamy until 1890, when leaders abandoned the practice as a condition for Utah to gain statehood. Early polygamy was rife with incestuous and eugenic ideas and practices as well. . 'I've seen some children that can talk and communicate a little,' Wyler said. According to many of the individuals interviewed for this story, these children are seen as special angels sent from God to the FLDS community. . A scrappy white wooden fence runs the length of it along Canyon Street. The Tuckers think this is all hogwash now, though they were programmed to believe it at the time. We would cause harm, he confessed. 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. 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