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http://www.sltrib.com/blogs/polygamy/2883629-155/former-polygamous-sect-member-to-walk
Information like this is needed to create more cracks in the wall of denial among those who insist that only one or two of the "fundamentalist Mormon sects" are rife with sexual abuse of women and young girls.
And everyone please note, the last name is Blackmore...
>Blackmore plans to begin walking Tuesday. It's all to raise awareness about sex abuse within the FLDS.
>"My goal is to helpfully give some of these girls a voice," Blackmore, 24, said in a telephone interview Thursday.
>Blackmore said she was taken out of the FLDS schools and home-schooled for the eighth grade. She didn't like it, she said. When she was placed in public schools, that was hard, too. The other kids didn't like the children from Bountiful.
>"People were mean," Blackmore said. "There was a lot of bullying."
>At age 14, Blackmore contacted the Hope Organization, a St. George based group that helped people wanting to leave polygamy.
>Blackmore finished high school and went on to college. She married, had two children and later divorced. She said she became a police officer in Washington state and then in Nevada. She said her parents are out of the FLDS, but at least one older brother remains loyal to Jeffs.
Information like this is needed to create more cracks in the wall of denial among those who insist that only one or two of the "fundamentalist Mormon sects" are rife with sexual abuse of women and young girls.
And everyone please note, the last name is Blackmore...
>Blackmore plans to begin walking Tuesday. It's all to raise awareness about sex abuse within the FLDS.
>"My goal is to helpfully give some of these girls a voice," Blackmore, 24, said in a telephone interview Thursday.
>Blackmore said she was taken out of the FLDS schools and home-schooled for the eighth grade. She didn't like it, she said. When she was placed in public schools, that was hard, too. The other kids didn't like the children from Bountiful.
>"People were mean," Blackmore said. "There was a lot of bullying."
>At age 14, Blackmore contacted the Hope Organization, a St. George based group that helped people wanting to leave polygamy.
>Blackmore finished high school and went on to college. She married, had two children and later divorced. She said she became a police officer in Washington state and then in Nevada. She said her parents are out of the FLDS, but at least one older brother remains loyal to Jeffs.