Jessop, Carolyn
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Birthname | Carolyn Blackmore | ||||
born on | 1 January 1968 at 02:00 (= 02:00 AM ) | ||||
Place | Hildale, Utah, 37n01, 112w58 | ||||
Timezone | MST h7w (is standard time) | ||||
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Biography
American autobiographer, a former Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints member who wrote Escape, an account of her upbringing in the polygamist sect and later flight from that community. She is the cousin, by marriage, of Flora Jessop, another former FLDS member and advocate for abused children. Carolyn Jessop now lives in the Salt Lake City area with her children.
On April 21, 2003, when Jessop was 35, she left her husband's family and the FLDS church, fleeing to a safehouse in Salt Lake City. Subsequently, she sued for custody of her children, and in 2003 became "the first woman ever granted full custody of her children in a contested suit involving the FLDS."
Events
- Work : Published/ Exhibited/ Released 2007 (autobiography)
Source Notes
Sy Scholfield quotes Laura Palmer and Carolyn Jessop's book "Escape" (New York: Broadway Books, 2007): born two hours after midnight.
Categories
- Vocation : Politics : Activist/ feminist
- Vocation : Writers : Autobiographer