Forty-nine women flash identical smiles in an eerie image which haunted Briell Decker for years. All wear pastel dresses, their hair neatly pinned back and, hanging on the wall behind them, is a picture of Warren Jeffs, the Mormon sex monster who controlled them.
Briell is the young woman, circled, on the second row. She was one of Jeffs’ 79 wives – some of them only 12 years old. He would control Briell’s life for years.
But today she tells how she escaped the clutches of the religious sect – and, remarkably, transformed Jeffs’ lair into a refuge helping women like her.
Fellow survivors are looked after by Briell and her team at the Short Creek Dream Center, on the Utah-Arizona border. It was where Jeffs – now in jail for sexually abusing
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