. . Kingston Clan. They have been known for systemic inbreeding, child sex abuse, physical abuse, child labor, and tax evasion. Daughters of men in the Co-op would be married off at young ages. "Farm Roots of Incest: Marriages in the Kingston clan must be sanctioned by [the] current head of the church . Some 42 different Klan groups were active in 22 . . . . If somehow a new dispensation came through Elden Kingston in 1935, it was stillborn, because it was never dispensed to Gods children. All went bareheaded and barefoot. Some of you may not believe this, but I not only believe it but I also know it. That means the number of cases likely will grow. . D. Michael Quinn, former Brigham Young University professor, states, 'The Mormon practice of polygamy enabled men to marry daughters, nieces, cousins, granddaughters and former wives of other General Authorities.'. "Some of the kids can walk, but others have a difficult time even sitting. . "Other possible genetic traits include: microcephaly, a malformation of the skull in which the infant has a small head (ex-members say two children with microcephaly have died and eight others are institutionalized); blindness; spina bifida; Down syndrome; kidney disease and abnormal leg and arm joints. SALT LAKE CITY A local non-profit with ties to the polygamous Kingston group is facing multiple questions and accusations regarding its taxes. The sisters were born into the Salt Lake City-based group and since they didn't choose the lifestyle, they decided to escape. Precisely where Elden obtained valid priesthood authority is a matter of dispute. . By the time Joseph Smith Jessop died in September 1953, he already had 112 grandchildren, the majority of them directly descended from him and Yeates. 11, p. 128, ". In response to questions from the newspaper, Kent Johnson, a spokesman for the Davis County Cooperative. . on the history of the fundamentalist community. From the article, "Mormon Polygamy: Frequently Asked Questions": "[Mormon] Church founder, Joseph Smith, said he received a revelation from God, which is still canonized Mormon scripture as Doctrine and Covenants Section 132. "Tarby believes the recessive gene was introduced by one of the community's polygamist founders. 'They are totally helpless,' he says. "The Mormons, well-known for genealogical record keeping, maintain birth, marriage and death information at church libraries and now on the Internet. Unfortunately, it's still the innocent who suffer due to Joseph Smith's lies. "Another problem in polygamy is a mans breeding years are expanded sometimes into his 80s by the taking of new wives. This denial is hollow considering the record. 'Her body tried to miscarry many, many times.'. The suit includes ten former members alleging the organization used marriages to "unlawfully make girls and their children religious martyrs and traffic them for sexual and labor purposes". [7], Plural marriage is practiced by some members of the LDCJC and members make their own choice in who they marry. Aleck is a geneticist who participated along with Tarby and others in the groundbreaking study of several polygamous families with fumarase deficiency in the late 1990s. "State investigators found no wrongdoing among members of the Davis County Cooperative Society, also known as the Kingston Group. The enzyme irregularity causes severe mental retardation, epileptic seizures and other effects that often leaves children unable to take care of themselves. ". "Ex-members' claims of incest are bolstered by court records claiming John Ortell 'failed either to support or acknowledge' three children by his niece, (Susan) Mary Gustafson. . Fear began to overwhelm me, for the future, and for my own son. 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. "[2], According to a 2011 document prepared by the attorneys general of the states of Utah and Arizona, the church describes itself as emphasizing family values, education, self-sufficiency, and the belief that every child is a priceless blessing. Elden theorized that living the law of consecration was still required, and he set forth to establish his own united order organization. "It is possible that positive genetic traits could be passed along through human inbreeding. "While discussing health problems at a family gathering with some of my cousins wives, we discovered astonishingly that three out of four of us, all polygamy descendants, had borne a son with a clubfoot. . "Yet, Aleck says, some children are more seriously affected by the disorder than others. . "Gradually, I realized the practice of polygamy, especially in Mormondom, might be a prescription for genetic disease. "All of these men have or had multiple wives and scores of children. "I know these people personally.'. . 'He wanted to control his children and grandchildren through genetics. "Dr. Vinodh Narayanan, a pediatric neurologist at St. Joseph's Hospital, says he is seeking funding to develop a test that would allow public health officials to collect voluntary blood samples from as many FLDS members as possible. And it takes two of them to get him into the bathtub just to wash him down and clean him up.' . The children who can't walk, the medical experts say, have most likely suffered strokes during severe seizures. . Morning Report delivers the latest news, videos, photos and more. Escaped members report some patriarchs believe it is their duty to give a daughter her first marriage lessons. They do develop to some degree, but it's way behind their peers.'. Eventually, she admitted she had married her half-brother and given birth to three children. But now that it was appearing in two children in the same family was an indication it was being spread by a gene that was getting passed to the children by their parents. . This practice has been attributed to "endogamous preference and the small size of the groups population" according to recent research from the University of California. According to Mormonism's top leaders: "Since the founding of the Roman empire monogamy has prevailed more extensively than in times previous to that. He did not consider this lack of sons might be his genetic inheritance, not his multiple wives. . "Roughly one in four Americans say 'most Mormons' support the practice of polygamy . "Dr. Theodore Tarby has treated many of the children at clinics in Arizona under contracts with the state. Only the FLDS prophet can arrange and perform polygamous marriages, and those marriages are taking place in a community in which almost everybody is related. A Kingston Family Primer. _____, --Case Study in Mormon-Moored Mutation: Utah's Mormon Offshoot Kingston Clan. Once a baby is born with the condition, Aleck says, 'You really can't treat the underlying disorder.' "Among the polygamous Kingstons, a number of children have been born with birth defects, among them one born with two vaginas and two uteruses but no vaginal or bowel opening. 'Remember how Hitler was trying to breed a perfect race?' Brother Elden had received a new dispensation of the gospel of Jesus Christ. --Letting the Genetic Genie Out of the Bottle: God Commands the Mormon Church to Enter Into Biologically-Destructive Practice of Polygamy. . After all, polygamy is illegal in the US. "These groups are white supremacists and inbreeding is an essential doctrine in keeping the bloodline pure. 'And is that religion popular in heaven?' . ozpoof Family members attribute the defects to the advanced ages of the mother and father -- he was 64, she was 45. "In 1996, the now 31-year-old Kingston mother of two slow-growing children sought explanations at Primary Children's Medical Center. Five of the women suing alleged they were coerced into marriage as minors and raped by their husbands. 'Right now, we are just looking at the tip of the iceberg.'. "'My mother should not have produced another baby," says Rugg, also Isabell and John Ortell's daughter and the baby's full sister. he says. . Consanguinity also causes rare recessive disorders to mask as dominant. A member of a polygamist clan today was convicted of incest with his 16-year-old niece, who testified that she had been forced to become his 15th wife. "Last year, a 16-year-old daughter of John Daniel Kingston was forced to marry her uncle, David Ortell Kingston, criminal charges allege, . This is inadequate information for purposes of establishing the true incidence of consanguinity within a family or community. . 3, p. 291, "I have noticed that a man who has but one wife, and is inclined to that doctrine, soon begins to wither and dry up, while a man who goes into plurality [of wives] looks fresh, young, and sprightly. Assets are generally estimated to be in the range of $200 million, although one Colorado competitor gave an even more stratospheric guess, pegging the clan's wealth at $11 billion. . "Tarby says the disease could begin to show up in children at Warren Jeffs' new FLDS headquarters . [Mormon] [h]istorian B. H. Roberts, notes an eugenic attitude regarding polygamy: "'It was in the name of a divinely-ordered species of eugenics that Latter-day Saints accepted the revelation which included a plurality of wives. Elden passed away from cancer in 1948 and was succeeded by his brother John Ortell Kingston (commonly known as Ortell). 'Escaping Polygamy' is a docuseries on Lifetime which follows the work of three sisters, who were able to break free from the polygamous Kingston Clan, known as the Order. . Elden clearly claimed to hold the priesthood keys, saying, I have those keys of power.[3]. . Child life is destroyed. . But residents who are aware of fumarase deficiency fear that the number of children afflicted with the disease will indeed increase. . Over the past decades, the Kingston Group has maintained extreme secrecy while developing an extensive cooperative system, with wealth in at least 50 corporations in Utah and scattered across the West. 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. The girl's father and mother, Susan Nelson (one of John Daniel's many wives) are half-sister and brother. Jacob Kingston pleaded guilty to 41 charges, including conspiracy to commit mail fraud, aiding/assistance in filing a false claim, money laundering and obstruction. During the 1920s, hundreds of dissenters from the LDS Church gathered into specific groups across the Wasatch Front. After two years of investigating, they did not find any welfare fraud. 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. [5] Michael Janofsky, Young Brides Stir New Outcry on Utah Polygamy, New York Times, February 27, 2003, Late EditionFinal Section A-1. . A recently created critical website can be viewed atwww.kingstonclan.com. One brother, John Daniel Kingston, was taken to court for neglecting this children. The Cooperative itself was established in 1935. . . One of their daughters married another of the community's founding patriarchs and religious leaders, John Yeates Barlow. . Isaac Wyler, another lifelong Colorado City resident who was excommunicated from the FLDS in January 2004. Naming a father could expose the truth, unveil secrets of paternity and subject the clan to further scrutiny from those who don't approve of incest. . . Despite its on-going public relations effort to convince Americans that Mormons don't really support polygamy (and despite the belief of many devout Mormons that polygamy came from God as revealed church doctrine which will eventually be reinstated when Jesus returns to the Earth), a quarter of Americans surveyed also have expressed the opinion that most Mormons embrace the idea of plural marriage: "A . . A small portion of the funds (less than 6%) were also used to purchase legitimate goods and services from businesses who provided them in "good faith". [18][7], The Cooperative had its birth during the Great Depression when many families struggled immensely to provide for their families. "'They claim to be the chosen people, the chosen few,' Bistline said. "The same right of marriage approval was wielded by John Ortell Kingston, who began the incestuous lineage. [1] Charles William Kingston, Autobiography, 2324; spelling and punctuation standardized. "Tarby says he explained to [a] gathering at [a] Town Hall in Colorado City that the only way to stop fumarase deficiency in the community is to abort fetuses that test positive for the disease and for the community to stop intermarriages between Barlows and Jessops, Barlows and Barlows and Jessops and Jessops. This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks. For instance, Quinn writes, '[O]ver 20 General Authorities were married to such lesser known wives.' "Mormon Prophet Hebrew J. when doctors pronounced us a special and important family. This seemed to apply in my own kindred because those of us who left Mormonism and married outsiders are less riddled with the deleterious genetic legacy than relatives who married within the ancestral Mormon gene pool. on the flat hay fields that stretch from the edge of Woods Cross to the crusty shores of the Great Salt Lake, that John Ortell Kingston studied the genetics of in-line breeding. Men make all decisions affecting her health. [2] Also known as the LDCJC,[3] the Kingston Clan, and The Order,[4][5][6] it is a religious organization created by members of the Davis County Cooperative Society or DCCS in 1977. One nurse confided, 'We see too many trisome l3 and l8 babies.' Connie Rugg, one of Ortells plural wives remembered: [Ortell Kingston] experimented inbreeding with his cattle and then he turned to his children.[4] Ortell desired to perfect his own bloodline and implemented practices that encouraged marriages of close relatives. "Now 16, Rugg's sister was married to and subsequently left one of her half-brother's sons. . . "Of all the arguments against incest, says Jorde, the likelihood that genetic abnormalities will be passed to succeeding generations is the most persuasive. People are always trying to find people who are inferior and brand them as such.' Current scientific knowledge indicates Grants lack of sons resulted from his own genetic defect, since only men carry the male Y chromosome to make a son. One of the most controversial splinter groups of Mormonism, the Latter Day Church of Christ, has been led by members of the Kingston family since it was founded in 1935. "Today, six sons and two daughters of John Ortell and LaDonna have married at least 20 half-sisters, nieces and first cousins, giving birth to a family tree that twists and tangles, and, at times, withers with children born of genetic deficiencies. [1], The Church . It takes maturity to face the truth, especially if the truth is painful and challenges the family tradition and religious belief structure. . . Believing that Elden received lost priesthood keys in 1935 also seems to contradict an 1837 scripture given to Joseph Smith stating that the priesthood had then (in 1837) been restored for the last time: For unto you, the Twelve, and those, the First Presidency, who are appointed with you to be your counselors and your leaders, is the power of this priesthood given, for the last days and for the last time, in the which is the dispensation of the fulness of times (D&C 112:30; see also D&C 27:13). . "'My guess is this man had used some of these inbreeding practices in his herd so he was probably in the camp that believed superior genetics could be propagated in a particular line,' Green says. Not enough of the fumarase enzyme can lead to severe mental retardation and physical deformities.