I married a cult leader at 18. I tried escaping 10 different times, but the system made it nearly impossible.

I married a cult leader at 18. I tried escaping 10 different times, but the system made it nearly impossible.

Courtesy of Briell Decker.

This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Briell Decker, 40, a former member of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, and the 65th wife of its former leader, Warren Jeffs. She married Jeffs in 2004 at 18 in an arranged marriage. It has been edited for length and clarity.

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