A woman who grew up in a polygamous “cult” with 44 siblings and four mothers has said women were treated like “second-class citizens” and taught that “it was a privilege to marry a man.”
Janet Z, 32, was born in 1994 into a “break-off” group of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, the sect led by convicted sex offender Warren Jeffs.
Growing up in Salt Lake, Utah, Janet had one father, four mothers, and 44 siblings, all living in a 13-bedroom, 15-bathroom home.
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