UNITED STATES
New York Daily News
By Nina Mandell / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Friday, April 13, 2012
A former polygamist sect wife who played a major role in putting Fundamentalist LDS leader Warren Jeffs behind bars spoke outside of the courtroom this week for the first time.
Rebecca Musser, who became one of Rulon Jeffs’ 65 wives at the age of 19, said she lived in a constant state of fear and misery from the time she was given away to the 85-year-old man by her father until the time she escaped after his death.
“My father sold my innocence,” Musser told a group of women at an event in Salt Lake City called Overcoming Obstacles, the Deseret News reported. “My life there was a constant state of fear, unknown … silence.”
She said she had been told to always obey her husband and was never given the option of saying no to his sexual advances, despite the enormous age difference.
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