Another brother, Ben, showed him how to mend fences. Paul Eldon Kingston, the leader of Utah's polygamous Kingston Group, also known is the order, is named as a defendant in a bombshell lawsuit alleging sex trafficking. The lawsuit says Mafi received an aid package that exceeded her tuition. Unable to visit his mother, Stephen would leave a $100 bill in her mailbox or, with his brothers, buy her new furniture. The deputy opened the trunk of the Honda, where he found two duffel bags stuffed with silver. At first, the two boys denied any involvement in the break-in at Youngs house. Stephen didnt know what the law said he only knew that the people he loved were being abused and exploited by his own father. Matt Gaetz Called Out for Citing Chinese Propaganda in Hearing So it means being a first [wife]. This is an indication that an experienced qui tam firm looked at the facts, Markey said, and realized it was a case that was worth pursuing.. Finding one wasnt difficult. Kingston had told gaming regulators in California. In the kitchen, he opened a closet and popped a hatch in the floor that led down to a dark, musty basement. (Rick Egan | The Salt Lake Tribune) The Salt Lake Community College Redwood Road campus is pictured Thursday, Dec. 12, 2019. Because of the clans distrust of banks, the Order had cash hidden all over the place, a poorly kept secret within the family. [4] Plural marriages for individuals under 18 in the group are not allowed. No one has been criminally charged. When he had finished, he walked toward Stephen, who was sitting on the tractor. But mostly he talked about the history of the Order and his ancestors, the men who had started the clan. But he hopes that one day his family will be able to forgive him for leaving them behind. While his dad was running the order from Salt Lake City, Stephen grew up on a cattle ranch called Washakie, near the Idaho border. Fortunately, our population has already attained a higher graduation rate for high school and associates degrees for men and women in the DCCS. was just as frugal as his brother he lived in a dilapidated shack with planks missing from the porch but he had a better head for business. Each daughter married one of their cousins, who also are pictured with their parents. Our goal of an educated, well-informed population goes against the popular narrative for our culture and there is a concerted effort to keep this false narrative alive. He died on 6-4-1998 at the Beckley Veterans Administration. That Stephens father sat atop a mafialike organization was a secret kept from him for most of his childhood. At clan gatherings, girls who were still in their teens danced with men old enough to be their uncles, whom they were sometimes forced to marry. One day, not long after the gold disappeared, Knight got an anonymous phone call. The Kingston Group is not affiliated withthe Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS) based on the Utah-Arizona line that is run by imprisoned leader Warren Jeffs, who is serving a life sentence in Texas for sexually assaulting girls he considered brides. If you messed with one of them, you were messing with them all., When Stephen was nine, an accident at Washakie set in motion a chain of events that would eventually prompt him to leave the cult. On February 26th, 2009, the Salt Lake County Sheriffs Office got a call of suspicious activity in the foothills above the city. Its his father, the prophet, calling to coax his wayward son back into the fold. Her own father David Kingston has 18 wives and around 200 kids. Then their father said something they never expected. He kept his office on a side street in central Salt Lake. They had eight children whose baptisms are recorded in the same church. The Knight brothers werent afraid to fight, or to stand up to authority. If you were more obedient, this wouldnt have happened., After that, everything changed, Stephen says. He then severed her index finger, cleaned off the three bones, and carried them with him the rest of his life, believing that the totem kept her spirit with him. The lawsuit includes a copy of whats alleged to be an agreement children had to sign before going to college. And they avoid the police, opting to handle any disputes in their own brutal manner. She does not favor a change in the marriage age. All the families belong to the Davis County Cooperative Society. Later that afternoon, in another house across town belonging to the Order, a woman named Patty Kingston opened her closet to discover that a chest of gold coins worth as much as $5 million had vanished. 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. John Gustafson, a representative of the Davis County Cooperative Society, an affiliate of the Kingston Group, disputed the lawsuits claims. Members who have left in recent years say that changed after some of Paul Kingstons brothers were convicted of crimes related to child abuse, sex with a minor or incest. Each time turning up no significant violations or nothing at all. Businesses and individuals have the autonomy to choose and operate as they see fit as evidenced by a huge diversity of industry and management styles among members. But women who are disobedient and fail to bear children including because they miscarry face ostracism, the lawsuit claims. Paul Kingston is one of eight men named as defendants in the lawsuit. Its unclear how much if any investigating has happened in the almost seven months since the lawsuit was filed. During the approval process, the young man had begun texting Jessica something forbidden but that she says is common among Order teens who have an interest in one another. The plaintiffs estimate the eight combine to have 106 wives. When a girl doesnt want to be a polygamist, that information is shared among boys and men in the sect. Their neighbors had no idea that the family were prominent members of the Kingston clan, the most powerful polygamist cult in America and one of the most dangerous. And then, when the men get mad at each other, they wont let the [other] mans sons come forward to marry one of their daughters. The third plaintiff is Michelle Michaels, who the complaint says left the sect in 2017 rather than become a spiritual wife to a cousin who has nine wives. Nevertheless, waves of audits of State taxes, Federal taxes, corporate taxes, DWS, SNAP, WIC and regulatory compliance in day cares among other things, have been levied against individuals and corporations with known or suspected ties to the DCCS. J.O. The young women ranged from about age 18 to 22. Messages sent to Paul and David Kingston as well as representatives of the Latter Day Church of Christ, the Kingston Groups religious organization, and other named defendants in the lawsuit were not returned. Men rise in prominence by being obedient and pure of blood and by having large families that can produce a lot of money and workers for the group, the suit continues. His life was in danger, the voice on the other end warned. The family gathered in the living room. From the outside it seemed like a typical suburban home, offering few clues of the secrets that were contained inside. All Rights reserved. They believe were Gods chosen people, Snow said of the Kingston Group followers, so you should start having kids as soon as possible.. 1 choice. (Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Jessica Kingston claims she was groomed into choosing marriage at age 16 by her parents and the polygamous sect. If that child comes to her at age 16 wanting to marry, she said, she will have questions. They were the type of kids you didnt mess with, says Robert Owen, a former member of the clan. Two of Hansen's daughters legally married when they were under the age of 18 to young men in the Kingston Group. Do you think if I took $5 million in gold, Id be working out here?. It felt like it was us against the world. His older brother Richard, a burly diesel mechanic, taught him how to fix cars. Snow said the classes also taught the girls to be submissive to their husbands and to keep a good house for them. They should refrain from this decision until they can be well informed to make a mature and thoughtful decision before entering into marriage.. Now, two years later, Stephen still sleeps with a gun near his bed. [4], Plural marriage is practiced by some members of the DCCS, and members make their own choice in who they marry. And it would be several years after that before he stole from his father for the first time. Nor are youths from polygamous sects the only teens who marry in Utah. Managed by: One baby deemed to have too many deformities was allegedly put in a shoe box and left to die. But within the Order, where drinking soda pop was against the rules, it was a pretty big deal.. Polygamist John Daniel Kingston, left, in attendance at a memorial for the 13 (and one still missing) victims of a Sept. 14, 2015, flash flood. Instead, he had walked away from the family three years earlier to make a life of his own. 1 choice [of whom to marry] in The Order, Jessica Kingston said. To her horror, all that remained was a ring of dust, marking the place where a chest of gold coins had once stood. Instead, she volunteered for extra shifts at the Kingston Group-run coal mine near Huntington, where she worked as a dispatcher. 1:03. 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. But we paid it all back.. A review of wedding certificates shows how the teen marriages are sanctioned at the highest levels of the Kingston Group. I knew I wasn't supposed to marry him, she said, but I almost did to get everyone to shut up and leave me alone about marriage.. For the marriages performed in Utah, Bill W. Stoddard signed as the officiant until his death in March. It passed a bill adding forced marriage into the states definition of sexual abuse. Mysterious cars followed his girlfriend, and he once came home to find that someone had rifled through his drawers. Log In Once logged in, you can add biography in the database. Her parents placed her in what she called a repentance home, where she wasnt allowed to communicate with anyone without supervision. Paul Elden Kingston: Paul Kingston is the leader of the Latter Day Church of Christ, also known as the Kingston Clan or The Order in Utah. Such lawsuits typically are sealed to give the government time to investigate the allegations. A copy of the lawsuit also is available there, though no other filings in the case are. The Kingstons operate in a self-contained universe, completely cut off from the outside world. The relations are distant enough they wouldnt encounter any of Utahs prohibitions on marriage between siblings, first cousins or aunts/nephews and uncles/nieces. To hide the scope of his organization, J.O. ", "United by fundamentalist Mormon beliefs, one polygamous group helps another by bringing truckloads of food", "Young Brides Stir New Outcry on Utah Polygamy", "Shurtleff: Child bride polygamous marriages appear to have stopped", "Polygamists are urged to make public statement", "No longer performing child-bride marriages? When Rachel Young, a stern and humorless woman, got home, she discovered that several crates of silver in her basement had been pried open whoever had robbed the place had clearly been in a hurry and had left with only a small fraction of her silver. Paul was upset any of this had been reported at all, says a former member close to the boys. Some former teenage Kingston Group brides acknowledge they werent forced to marry; they made a choice. Girls are told they will need to pray to God so he might show them who their No. Knight was born in Salt Lake City, the sixth child of third-generation polygamists. Theyre trying to paint a picture, Markey said, give the judge and, frankly, the defendants, when they see the complaint, give them the context, which is to the effect, We know what's up. They seemed happy, Ron says. Mafis mother is Paul Kingstons fifth wife, yet when filling out the aid forms, the woman advising her told Mafi not to submit anything about her father, according to the lawsuit. They and Mafi also accuse a sect-affiliated tax preparer of falsifying tax returns for Kingston Group members to report lower incomes, partly to boost student financial aid. Within a year, Paul Kingston would take a fourth wife. 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. He slept with a different one each night, in accordance with their ovulation cycles, and sometimes disappeared during lunch to have sex with a favorite. 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.. If you ever do that again, he said, Ill blow your head off., It was an astonishing moment in the history of the clan. The accusers also claim that the group arranged child marriages so that girls would become pregnant and beholden to their husbands and the religious sect. He later pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor. The parents of the 16-year-olds also completed a form granting their permission. Thanks for your understanding. Its a quiet, haunting place, with massive hayfields that stretch to the horizon. The Tribune, with assistance from former sect members who reviewed the records, also found 20 cases in which both the bride and groom were at least 18. Much of what we have reviewed appears frivolous and unfounded, Gustafson said in an emailed statement. When someone is interested in marriage, the process is something more like a job interview than a courtship. You had to be, like, a son of the prophet to know where it was.. The Kingston Group is believed to have a few thousand members, mostly in Utah and Idaho. Stephens father seemed to marry a new girl every year, each one younger and prettier than the last. It alleges sex trafficking, sexual battery and child abuse, and seeks a jury trial and unspecified damages. [9], He is believed to have practiced polygamy in the past, potentially accruing as many as 40 wives and fathering up to 300 Children. We've received your submission. 12 Paul J. WILFONG was born on 4-13-1912 in Marlinton. 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 families of 19-year-old Stephen Smith who was rumored to be . The groups, whose members believe polygamy brings exaltation in heaven, are offshoots of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. If that father says yes, the groom talks to the girl. He then pinned her on a bed, the documents say, and wouldnt let her call for help. Paul Kingston is one of eight men named as defendants in the lawsuit. The Mormon Church officially banned polygamy in 1890, and some of the defiant bands of fundamentalists who refuse to give up the practice have been pushed out of the city and into the desert, where they eke out an existence in rusted-out trailers and sprawling compounds. (Like most kids in the clan, Stephen wasnt told who his father was until he was old enough to be trusted to lie to protect the Order.) They are paid not in cash but in scrip, an arcane form of credit used by the Mormon pioneers that can only be redeemed at company stores. It empowered Stephen before that, no one had ever stood up to Daniel Kingston or any of them, says a former member. Ed Sheeran Announces Final Mathematical-Themed Album 'Subtract' 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 . Hansen said some men try to use their children to improve their status in the sect. COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) Jurors in Alex Murdaugh's murder trial will get to see for themselves the rural hunting estate where his wife and son were killed, following in the footsteps of . He told her he believed one did not need to practice polygamy to reach heaven. Girls, many of them teen brides, answer phones at the Orders law office, bag groceries at its supermarket or tend to the clans many children. Many of these men are also given stewardship of the Orders business holdings sent out to run the clans coal mine or ranches, or to oversee one of its many storefronts. It was February in Salt Lake, cold and gray, and in the foothills above the city, a low fog hung over the mountains. Or wed set traps and raise them as pets., In many ways it was an idyllic childhood, except for the fact that the ranch also doubled as a work camp for disobedient clan wives and rebellious kids. Eventually, Stephen was sent back to Washakie and was placed under the supervision of his uncle, one of the familys most feared enforcers. The boys also bought cigarettes wholesale through a small clan-owned market run by their older brother and sold them at school. Death: January 25, 1867 (75-76) Immediate Family: Husband of Lydia Kingston. One day, for laughs, he and his half brother Ron Tucker stole some napalm from an Order army-supply store, drew lines of it in the street and lit it on fire as cars drove by. They were finally getting even. Luke and Scott often visited the home of one of their aunts, Rachel Young. Colorado does not require an officiant or a ceremony to marry. It is a common and intentional practice in the Order to require girls and women to submit sexually to their husbands even if the sexual submission is against their will because having children results in workers for the benefit of the Order, the lawsuit states. Intermarriage of close. He served one day in jail. 1 choice was not her fathers. While some despised Ben for his apostasy and refused to speak with him, Stephen had remained in touch with his brother. Consumed with guilt over his brothers death, Stephen lashed out. By 18, she was pregnant with her first child and ended up having four children in four years. No recordings or photos were allowed during the ceremony. Members of The Order are taught they need to be in a plural marriage to reach the highest heaven. A lawyer and an accountant by trade, Stephens father hardly looked like the sort of man who could command the unquestioned loyalty of thousands of followers. Paul F Kingston. For Stephen and the other kids on the ranch, the highlight of each week came on Sundays, when they traveled the hour and a half south to Salt Lake for church. The woman who married in 2014 at age 16 and asked not to be identified is still with her husband. Jessica Kingston said a girls devotion and attitude are often measured by her view of polygamy. But the more the deputy pressed, the more their stories didnt add up. The accusers describe a patriarchal doctrine known as The Law of One Above Another, which they claim designates everyone a rank in the groups hierarchy. Look around, Stephen says. (Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Jessica Kingston was wed at age 16 in what she says was a marriage she felt pressured into by her parents and others in a polygamous sect. She grew up in Woods Cross and hated The Order all her life, she said in a recent interview. He inherited the top leadership position in 1987. Dating or romance among young people before marriage is forbidden in the Kingston Group, but the sect does hold dances. Brothers John Daniel Kingston, the father of the girl now in state custody, is said to have 20 wives; the mother of the "M.N." is half sister. However, Grant claims she endured years of sexual abuse by a half-brother as a child. Every now and then, as hes driving around the ranch, his phone will ring. 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. He said the college has controls to ensure compliance with federal aid guidelines. (Photo courtesy of Kollene Snow) Kollene Snow, 16, poses in her dress before her 2009 marriage in West Valley City. The Brown boys, charged with felony counts of burglary, wrote a letter to their aunt apologizing for stealing the silver in her house. At 17, she agreed to marry a man in his early 20s. The Salt Lake Tribune, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) public charity and contributions are tax This is nothing more than a continued attempt in a long history to keep DCCS members from accessing education and services every other U.S. citizen is legally entitled to. The suitor had asked her to dance a few times at The Orders youth social events. A week later, the two were profiled on the CBS program Whistleblower for their work in exposing fraud at Washakie Renewable Energy, the biofuel company operated by two of Mary Nelsons first cousins. Paul Kingston and his wife, Mary Kelly, were natives of Moinies (Meenies) townland, Drimoleague, Co. Cork, Ireland. No one would accept the guilty by association view in any other culture that has been adopted by the public for ours. We really know what your game is.. There shouldnt really be a reason for an age limit, she said. Complete statement from Davis County Cooperative Society: For decades, the DCCS has encouraged its members to be well-educated, well-informed, independent thinkers. Mark Shurtleff, the Utah attorney general, has spent years investigating the clan, gathering birth certificates and genealogical data, and has come to believe that the cult is guilty of a long list of crimes, including child labor, tax evasion, welfare fraud, polygamy and the sanctioning of underage marriages to blood relatives. The couples wedding certificate says Stoddard officiated the ceremony April 26, 2008, in West Valley City. In Utah, Rep. Angela Romero, D-Salt Lake City, plans a bill that would raise the minimum marriage age to 18. A recent estimate is that he has 34 wives and more than 500 children, as several of his wives have had as many as 16 children each! Three of Kingston's 14 wives also are in the photo. J.O. Some people say they funneled the money through Mexico. Rates of college attendance that meet or exceed the Utah average have been a point of pride in the Kingston Group, whose members have offered such statistics to counter the stereotype of children from polygamy, especially girls, being uneducated with no opportunity for self-improvement. She says marriages can be used in The Order to gain or maintain favor among the parents of the brides and grooms. As he grew older, Stephen turned out to be as rebellious as his own father had been. The memorial was held in Maxwell Park in Hildale, Saturday, Sept. 26, 2015. Send us a tip using our anonymous form. When people hear organized crime, they think of mobsters. This article related to the Latter Day Saint movement is a stub. She was definitely the pick of the litter, and thats why Paul got her, Ron recalls. When youre three years old, they start training you what to say if people talk to you, recalls Jeremy Tucker, a 32-year-old former member of the cult, who now works in construction. Former members estimate Paul has 30 wives and more than 50 children. Later the Order reportedly bought slot machines from mob-controlled companies. In the months after the robbery, Stephen couldnt shake the feeling he was being watched. The ones that misbehave, they try to push them to marry as soon as they can, Hansen said. Thats your Uncle Paul, she said. We strongly encourage all members to strictly adhere to every legal guideline when operating their businesses including day cares and when applying for all need-based assistance, including financial aid for students. Attorneys for the Nelsons and Michaels also did not return messages seeking comments. 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