The memorial was held in Maxwell Park in Hildale, Saturday, Sept. 26, 2015. Keri Russell: I won't Cruise into scientology, Court documents claim man killed step-daughters in Satanic ritual, Joyce Meyer ministry is selling posh homes, Research Cults, Abusive Churches, Spiritual Abuse, Undue Influence, and More, Pentagon paid $1.7 million to firms of polygamy bosses, AG: Polygamy conviction is the beginning of more prosecutions. Former sect members testified in favor of the measure, but its unclear whether the pressures faced by teens in the Kingston Group constitute forced marriage. I could see that the leaders of The Order really did believe we had black ancestors, Ron explained, with Christy next to him, and his adult daughters Emily and Julie nearby. John Daniel Kingston did not return messages seeking comment Tuesday. The Kingston Group is believed to have a few thousand members, mostly in Utah and Idaho. But Jessica knew the longer she waited to wed, the more likely she would have to become a polygamist and the more likely her husband would be far older than she was. Stephanie wants to break from her past, but is also paving her future. Hospital harm., While part of The Order, Val Snow, a twenty-something gay man with a wry sense of humor, believed being gay was like spitting in the eye of God. Snow is the son of Daniel Kingston, whom he paints as a little man with a lot of power.. Three of his wives are his half-sisters. She also felt a religious call to wed and saw herself as mature enough to undertake such a commitment. Today, they tried to bring up a case back in 1998 in which Kingston plead no contest to severely beating his 16-year old daughter at the time, Maryann Kingston after she ran from the clan. He said he was going to give me 10 licks for every wrongdoing. He then pinned her on a bed, the documents say, and wouldnt let her call for help. Bad harm. Another is a first cousin. Paul E. Kingston, considered the top man, signed as a witness for four of the marriages that The Tribune found outside Utah. Witnesses offer conflicting accounts, Mars Voltas lead singer broke with Scientology and reunited with the band. The girl's voice cracked throughout her testimony and she cried openly when Box Elder County Attorney Jon Bunderson asked her to identify the man who hit her. Stephanie Mattingly: "I feel we are in the same situation now, and once the kids are home and the case is closed, we will hear their cries for help once again.". The girl said her father ordered her into his truck and they drove north. Stephanie Mattingly: "The hardest thing, actually, the most hardest thing, the way hardest thing, is accepting that you're not going to go to hell.". (Jessicas dad and the young man had taken courses together at the University of Utah.) They believe were Gods chosen people, Snow said of the Kingston Group followers, so you should start having kids as soon as possible.. He said there were three," the girl testified. My 4-year-old comes to me and says she has to find out her No. For parents, there can be other practical considerations in letting a teen marry, Hansen said. He says The Order regards homosexuality as a choice. Kingston was described by officials as a model prisoner, who tutored inmates trying to complete high school and worked as a paid teaching assistant in the prisons college program. You have that right.. Johnson maintained that The Orders vast array of businesses which includes a grocery store, pawn shops, a garbage disposal business, an insurance company, a politically-influential biofuels plant, and a high-end firearms manufacturer employs individuals of various racial and ethnic minorities. And during a recent picnic to honor the birthday of patriarch John Ortell Kingston, Order families descended on a Salt Lake Valley park, where hundreds of children of all ages blanketed the parks green expanse. Marriage preparation can accelerate at puberty. Theyre basically the Utah Mafioso of the white power world, Browning told Intelligence Report. He told her he believed one did not need to practice polygamy to reach heaven. Snow said the classes also taught the girls to be submissive to their husbands and to keep a good house for them. Snow and her mother, Shirley Hansen, have differing stories on what the moms role was in her daughters marriage. Besides, the mother said, the girl needed her husbands health insurance to treat her condition. (Steve Griffin | The Salt Lake Tribune) Girls who agree to become plural wives tend to be more devout and usually live in homes without their husband, thus receiving less scrutiny. In response to questions from the newspaper, Kent Johnson, a spokesman for the Davis County Cooperative Society, sent an email saying marriages should occur within the age of legal consent and not be coerced. The Polygamy Dilemma Is Plural Marriage a Dead Issue in Mormonism? Both he and Dermen have pushed for prosecutors to accelerate the disclosure of evidence so the cases can move to trial. She favors raising the legal marriage age to 18. DCFS declined to open a case, but Guardian ad Litem Kristin Brewer intervened. Ex-order members interviewed by the Intelligence Report generally agreed with the characterization of the Kingston clan as a hate group.. "He told me to take off my jacket. Paul would rather have the wealth and the money than the isolation and the conflict, he said. The largest biodiesel producer in Utah, Washakie held an open house in Plymouth on Thursday, Sept. 1, 2011, to showcase its new production facility. You are here: Home | Kingston Clan | Kingston girls abused, judge says. Seated on a couch, sipping lemonade in his home in a Salt Lake City suburb, he resembles Paul Kingston quite a bit. Sometimes she cries because she sees her kids getting beaten and she cant do anything., Kingston subjected his children to abandonment and illegal behavior, Brewer said, noting the children are aware of his relationships with 14 women, three of whom are his half sisters.. It's hard to break away from anyone and everything you've ever known and loved.". The judge gave the couple until June 11 to request new birth certificates. In all likelihood, you will never see David Kingston committing a new crime, he added. But given that the Kingstons command an estimated 6,000 adherents, boast a business empire reportedly worth as much as $1 billion and have outlasted myriad bouts with law enforcement and the press, these dreams of world domination may be less delusional than they first seem. New indictments were not a surprise. Those two unions happened in Colorado, where its legal to marry your cousin. The name is Kingston, sir, and these kids have a right to their true name, Valdez told Kingston, adding that bearing their fathers name would ensure their inheritance rights. It passed a bill adding forced marriage into the states definition of sexual abuse. Utahs polygamous Kingston clan mixes incest and white supremacy with old-fashioned capitalism. For instance, as an Amazon Associate, Religion News Blog earns from qualifying purchases. Im sorry that you had to go through this, she said. Jessica Kingston said a girls devotion and attitude are often measured by her view of polygamy. If that father says yes, the groom talks to the girl. Is it a requirement to gain the highest levels of heaven? She wants to be adopted by her foster family, and one day become a police officer and help abused kids. Earlier in its history, the Kingston Group had plural wives under age 18. Stephanie says she was only 12 when her father began preparing her for marriage. Jessica said, strictly speaking, she and the other teen brides she knows chose to get married, but added: Its not much of a choice when theyre groomed to do that.. She and her husband had four children with whom they share custody. The marriages, former followers say, can be used as a tool to keep girls in the Kingston Group, known among younger members as The Order. For their part, the brides sometimes see legal marriages as a way to avoid becoming polygamists later (and consequently being matched with a husband perhaps twice their age) or a means to escape their parents crowded households. Her father, John Daniel Kingston, has 14 wives. A $300-million (minimum) gondola to Dodger Stadium? We havent gotten any big U.S. contracts, Young explained. The new indictment charges Jacob Kingston with 43 counts of filing false returns with the IRS, money laundering, threatening a witness and obstruction of justice. Its ominous-sounding moniker, The Order, is a reference to the United Order, a quasi-utopian society proposed by LDS-founder Joseph Smith, and practiced in some Mormon communities under the leadership of early church president Brigham Young. Donate to the newsroom now. Depending on ones view, members of the Kingston Group either take care to follow marriage laws, or work to circumvent them. A juvenile. Ortell died in 1987, but his progeny continued the polygamy, the inbreeding and the marriages to young female teens that he instituted. They appeared in Salt Lake Citys federal court with an attorney Tuesday morning for an arraignment. He was jailed for beating his daughter into. David was sentenced to 10 years in prison for the incest, but served only four before being paroled. Jessica was given the list of suitors. . Boys are taught they will need to receive revelation from God on whom to marry. rules, Utes seeing transfer portals impact on college gymnastics. 2K views, 27 likes, 7 loves, 18 comments, 0 shares, Facebook Watch Videos from Dbstvstlucia: DBS MORNING SHOW & OBITUARIES 25TH APRIL 2023 APRIL 2023 No. John Daniel Kingston served 28 weeks after pleading no contest to child abuse following a 1998 episode in which he belt-whipped a girl. 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. He served one day in jail. Members of The Order are taught they need to be in a plural marriage to reach the highest heaven. Daniel., That prompted Valdez to tell her, Call him Dad. Before the call ended, Young insisted that he didnt admit to any kind of incest or anything. When Intelligence Report inquired if Young thought there was anything wrong with first cousins getting married, Young opined that such issues were between the individuals involved and God. Up to this point, Julie had treated the rumor like a joke. Kingston was an accountant for the Latter Day Church of Christ, one of Utahs most secretive polygamous sects. During a recent interview with the Intelligence Report, Jessica Kingston, a former member of the secretive, Salt Lake City-based cult and a star of the A&E reality series Escaping Polygamy, remembered, when she was 12, her Sunday school teacher coming into class with a bucket of water and a vial of black food coloring. "He said, `You can leave, but you can never come back.' Her father, John Daniel Kingston, pleaded no contest to third-degree felony child abuse and was sentenced to 28 weeks in jail. Home births and the frequency of miscarriages and still-borns among the Kingstons have led to macabre legends of dead infants buried in Kingston back yards. Some shed tears as the girl testified. But I do have children with other women., Asked if two women named were in fact his first cousins, Young paused, finally replying, I guess Im curious as to what youre trying to get at here.. Had Snow been a better behaved, more devout member of the Kingston Group, Hansen said, there may not have been a push to have her legally marry at 16. Snow contends her mother was one of the people who told her she needed to think about whom she was going to wed. Photo by Nate Carlisle, The Salt Lake Tribune | Shirley Hansen, seen here July 21, 2018, stands along 2100 South near State Street in Salt Lake City. Salt Lake City, USA - Polygamist John Daniel Kingston has been granted unlimited contact with the children he has with Heidi Mattingly by a judge who ended the couple's prolonged child welfare case. Parole board hearing officer Kent Jones said the evidence showed that Kingston forced himself upon a girl who was repulsed by him. Reportedly, Paul and his brother each have dozens of wives and hundreds of children. deductible, Report a missed paper by emailingsubscribe@sltrib.comor calling801-237-2900, For e-edition questions or comments, contact customer support801-237-2900or emailsubscribe@sltrib.com. 1 choice [of whom to marry] in The Order, Jessica Kingston said. But age alone wont determine her answer. The girl said she walked seven miles to a service station and called police. The father preferred another who had inquired about marrying Jessica. (Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune) DeRieux said she and her husband were not allowed to live together or consummate their marriage until they had a religious ceremony the following month. According to church lore, Charles "Elden" Kingston founded The Order after seeing Jesus in a cave. A review of wedding certificates shows how the teen marriages are sanctioned at the highest levels of the Kingston Group. All rights reserved. sltrib.com 1996-2023 The Salt Lake Tribune. But The Orders critics say that cult members see nothing wrong with bilking the government, a time-honored tradition among FLDS sects, gleefully referred to as bleeding the beast.. Stephanie Mattingly: "My dad did not support her in any way. The couples other eight children will remain with Foster. David Kingston's 16-year-old wife was the daughter of another brother, John Daniel Kingston, who was sentenced to 28 weeks in jail for severely beating his daughter after she attempted. The Utah Attorney General's Office filed a motion today, requesting that Judge Andrew Valdez recuse himself from the case. Kingston's attorney, Daniel Irvin, argued that his client had done nothing wrong and was being persecuted for his. In a letter to the Intelligence Report responding to allegations made by former members, Kent Johnson, a spokesman for the Davis County Cooperative Society, claimed that The Orders foundational principles include the Golden Rule, and that the church rejects any form of racism or bigotry. In an analysis written in 2015, a University of Maryland sociologist found that nationwide 37 percent of people who marry before age 20 divorce in the first 10 years. Rolwing said some computer hard drives remain missing, though federal agents were available to recover emails and other data on a backup server. In another, Order attorney Carl Kingston warns listeners about marrying up with Hams kids, a reference to the aforementioned Biblical curse. These specialty firearms can cost anywhere from $2,500 to $8,000 each. John Daniel Kingston seen here in 1999, pleading no contest to beating his 16-year-old daughter after she attempted to flee an arranged marriage with her uncle David, Kingstons brother. Blacks were the less valiant people in heaven who sat on the sidelines while others took sides, according to The Order. From Hansens perspective, the entire Kingston Group marriage process is like being told you can have anything to eat as long as it comes from a certain table. The judge opted to let the women remain free without a bond, though they need to surrender their passports, wear ankle monitors and remain in Utah. The term cult has a precise definition or rather, Religion News Blog is a service provided by. Young is the owner of Desert Tech, a Utah gun manufacturer, which produces sniper rifles and so-called bullpup rifles, The latter, unlike conventional magazine-fed rifles, have shorter barrels, with the guns action located behind the trigger. As far as how you end up in heaven, thats up to God.. John Daniel did not support her financially, in any way.". "I could taste the blood from my nose," she said. You guys are the best parents in the world, and having one of you gone is like having an arm gone or my brain gone.. It advertised at Utah Jazz home games and on game broadcasts. But 16- and 17-year-olds in Utah need only the consent of a parent to wed. Idaho, Colorado and Nevada, where the The Tribune also found Kingston Group marriages, have similar age and parental-consent requirements. Spokesmen for both the U.S. State Department and for Picatinny Arsenal could neither verify nor deny Youngs claims. He later pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor. Stephanie Mattingly is the daughter of John Daniel Kingston and Heidi Mattingly. Young declined to comment when asked if he practices polygamy. At age 10 she worked full time and helped support her mother. A loyal Order member for years, he lost his faith and ended up leaving the Order over a curse of sorts, leveled at his family by LaDonna. Over the years, state law enforcement and the courts have sporadically addressed the incest in the Kingston ranks. 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. Kingston brothers Isaiah (left) and Jacob co-own WRE or Washakie Renewable Energy, which produces 10 milion gallons of biofuel. Black blood was the worst thing you can have, Jessica said, particularly since the Kingstons consider themselves to be the whitest of the white, descended directly from Jesus Christ and King David, the Middle Eastern origins of both men notwithstanding. So when her husband pushed for that daughter to marry, too, Hansen thought she was mature enough. It was just the best choice, some say, among their bad options. The girls, ages 13 and 15, have been in state custody since mid-February, when they said their father threatened to beat them after they got their ears pierced. Not every Kingston Group follower marries as a juvenile. And that's the hardest thing to accept.". archived form does not constitute a republication of the story. Ethnic jokes and stereotypes were commonly repeated. Get the day's top news with our Today's Headlines newsletter, sent every weekday morning. As for its anti-government views, allegations of fraud against government entities have long dogged the Kingstons. The four sisters from Escaping Polygamy, Jessica, Andrea, Shanell, and Kollene Kingston are the daughters of John Daniel Kingston and granddaughters of John Ortell Kingston. The two most recent of those marriages, according to wedding certificates, occurred in April. In 1999, Pauls younger brother David Ortell Kingston was convicted of taking his 16-year-old niece as wife number 15. Stoddard was the president of the Latter Day Church of Christ, the Kingston Groups incorporated religious organization. In a search of public records created since the start of 1997, The Salt Lake Tribune found 65 marriages among members of the Kingston Group in which the bride was 15, 16 or 17. He would talk to them about marriage and thinking of whom to marry, Hansen said. There shouldnt really be a reason for an age limit, she said. Rather than parole him, the state Board of Pardons and Parole opted to terminate his sentence. Stephanie Mattingly: "I still go through the process of telling myself that, 'no, you're not going to hell because you left your family. Mark Hansen, Fosters attorney, said Kingstons actions fall within a Utah law allowing corporal punishment. Recordings of church testimony given by various Kingstons serve as further evidence of the cults bigoted teachings. It was believed that between these seven brothers, they had 90 wives who were their half-sisters or half-nieces; there were 850 children in all. The sect will then return what money the business needs for operating expenses. The statement also said that of the Kingston Group individuals who married under age 18 in the past 20 years, 95.1 percent remain married, 94.2 percent have earned a high school degree, and a third, most of them women, have graduated from a public college or university. It begins with the potential groom. She grew up in Woods Cross and hated The Order all her life, she said in a recent interview. When a girl doesnt want to be a polygamist, that information is shared among boys and men in the sect. He vowed never again to commit incest or have sex with an underage girl. Brother Elden died of penile cancer in 1948, despite the best efforts of some family members to burn away the cancer using acid. Okay, I have one legal wife, he said. Now, former members say, girls who will be plural wives meaning they have only a spiritual marriage to their husband are left alone until they are 18 so laws about sex with a minor wont apply. only for your personal, non-commercial use. Similarly, his older brother John Daniel Kingston has had 14 wives, four of them his half-sisters. All Rights Reserved, Polygamist faces trial in daughters beating. One brother, John Daniel Kingston, was taken to court for neglecting this children. The new indictment describes how, in 2013, Washakie transferred $6.2 million to the Kingston Groups incorporated church or businesses operated by church members. Valdez said he found the younger teens accounts of abuse to be courageous and credible, while the older girl seemed to be protecting her family. minutes. She pointed to Kingston. She is the fifth of her mothers 12 children. The memorial was held in Maxwell Park in Hildale, Saturday, Sept. 26, 2015. Her husband, John Daniel Kingston, told his children to marry up, she said, meaning marry into a well-regarded family in the Kingston Group. Utah District Court Judge Ben Hadfield sentences John Daniel Kingston, who pleaded no contest to having whipped 16-year-old daughter for fleeing arranged polygamous marriage with her uncle, David . (Listed if other than Religion News Blog, or if not shown above). Kingston was convicted of third-degree felony incest and unlawful sexual contact with a minor and was sentenced in 1999 to two consecutive terms of up to five years in prison. And when her children were abused, Foster stood by. If God gives him direction on whom to marry, he goes to his dad. Johnson did not provide the raw data to support those statistics. Or leave. One of the seven brothers was John Daniel Kingston, the father of the main stars of "Escaping Polygamy." TV Premiere and premise of "Escaping Polygamy" When she fled the marriage, her father, John Daniel Kingston, drove her . Snow said she was forced to fast, pray and read the Bible. The U.S. Department of Justice alleges Washakie made almost no biofuel and instead bought and sold products and fabricated papers to collect a tax rebate from the federal government. Polygamy is outlawed in Utah, both by the states constitution, and in statute, where it is a third-degree felony, with a possible punishment of five years in prison. She's since left the marriage and wants the legal marriage age raised to 18. If you have as much as one drop of that blood in your veins, says Carl, youre cursed from holding the priesthood.. Their divorce was finalized in July 2012 a little more than three years after they married. But moving forward isn't always easy. Their trials are scheduled for May. Rather than submit to DNA tests, which could have revealed the incest in his brood, he coughed up a more than $200,000 settlement. Once free of the cult, Lu Ann, Allison and other ex-Order members have had to unlearn the hatred that was drilled into their heads. For that, she would have to be legally married to him. But Stephanie Mattingly doesn't ever want to go back to her old life in the Kingston polygamous clan. The Order denies that it encourages racism and homophobia within its ranks. Julie left the cult at age 19. Current members dispute those characterizations. One ex-Order member, who asked to be referred to as Scott, instead of his real name for fear of retribution by clan members, said hatred of gays was big in the Kingston clan, with the word f----- in frequent use. Paul Kingston told her congratulations. She says she was four when she was put to work at one of the Kingston's businesses. Instead, she volunteered for extra shifts at the Kingston Group-run coal mine near Huntington, where she worked as a dispatcher. In Utah, Rep. Angela Romero, D-Salt Lake City, plans a bill that would raise the minimum marriage age to 18. ". Llewellyn, John R. Polygamy Under Attack: From Tom Green to Brian David Mitchell (2004) Dan Simon & Amanda Townsend (September 7, 2007). What he told me was, Hansen said, Get her married so we dont have to take care of her anymore.. As part of a plea bargain, Jeremy spent just one year in prison. The girl, who as an adult would unsuccessfully sue the clan, then walked miles to the nearest gas station, where she called the police. A year ago she and her nine siblings were placed in state custody after allegations of abuse. Something along the lines of, to build a superhuman, if you have four or five defects to get the one good one, its worth it, he recalled. Matt Browning seems less sure. Tucker is another of Ortells many sons, though not from the favored wife, LaDonna. Allison, a 17 year-old ex-Kingston member says not much has changed since Lu Anns day. Because that one is going to be genius-level purity, and thats what The Order is looking for., Photo Credit: AP Images / Leah Hogsten, Pool (John Daniel Kingston); AP Images / Jeffrey D. Allred / Pool (Jeremy Kingston), SPLC is a nonprofit, tax-exempt 501(c)(3) organization (EIN: 63-0598743). Additionally, ex-Order members tell of a reputed church prophecy of an End of the World War, an apocalyptic vision that foresees a bloody race war with the Kingstons as the ultimate victors, chosen by their Heavenly Father to rule the world for a millennium. The plans fizzled because her mother didnt believe DeRieux had received direction from God to marry the man. But Jessicas No. Another of the cults teachings was that soy can make you gay, an anti-government conspiracy theory popular in some right-wing circles. But for their part, The Order and other fundamentalist sects believe the LDS church exists in a state of apostasy for abandoning what they see as a bedrock principle of their faith. All rights reserved. She received no sex education or premarital counseling. That usually means marrying a Kingston descendant. Dont the infant deaths and tales of horrific deformities belie Ortells homespun eugenics? 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. Snow also remembered being taught end-time prophecies, with a cleansing wherein the streets of Salt Lake City would run red with blood. By subscribing, you acknowledge and agree to KSL.com's, Crews searching for woman caught in Weber River, Man taking family camping near Utah Lake hit and killed; driver criminally charged, Westbound I-80 closed due to vehicle fire in Salt Lake City, Utah-based Extra Space Storage to merge with Life Storage in nearly $13B deal, Utah launches statewide turf grass buyback program as it seeks water-use reformation, Have You Seen This? For fun he and other Order men would go to a park frequented by gay males, looking for victims. 1 choice for marriage is. Among those Kingston Group brides who marry as minors and for whom The Tribune was able to find birthdates, the average age was 16 years, 7 months and 12 days. Known variously as Brother Paul, the leader, and the man on the watchtower by Order members, this unremarkable, balding middle-aged man reportedly has 27 wives and over 300 children. Jessica has begun working with Hope After Polygamy, a charity started by the cast of Escaping Polygamy and other former Kingston Group members to assist people leaving polygamous sects. Some former teenage Kingston Group brides acknowledge they werent forced to marry; they made a choice. The education figures he cited would be a few percentage points higher than the average for Utah as a whole, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. The two women surrendered over the weekend but were not booked into jail. Main Street Church. During an interview with this reporter, Lu Ann Kingston, whose defiance of the cult led to the conviction of her former spiritual husband Jeremy, recalled that Order members saw intermarriage as a way to keep the bloodline pure., All outsiders are considered to be beneath Order members, she explained. They did so July 3, 2008, in Grand Junction, Colo, where records show two other couples from the Kingston Group married that day. Let me rephrase that. John Daniel Kingston, who according to court testimony once had 14 wives, was on hand in 2011, when his sons held an open house at the Washakie production plant in Plymouth near Interstate 15 and the Idaho line. According to Montana court documents, the couple had an argument at their apartment and DeRieuxs then-husband threw her down a flight of stairs.
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