“Technically, I have 32 brothers.” These are the words of Amanda Rae Grant a 29-year-old American girl who managed to escape one sect religious. In particular, we are talking about the Davis County Cooperative Society – also known by the nickname “The Order” – based in Bountiful, a city in Utah, that is, in America. The sect was founded on the principle of incest, which had now become its main cult, and is a polygamous community.
The polygamous sect
Just last year, in 2022, ten women fled the polygamist sect, accusing members of the community of not only forcing them to marry when they were minors, but also doing so with their relatives to maintain the marriage pure blood. But that’s not all, because the alleged victims also admitted that they had been raped by their husbands and that they had been exploited in the workplace at a young age. Among the accusers was Amanda Rae Grant, who had previously testified on the television show Escaping Polygamy.
In fact, the show gave space to the stories of people who had fled the community in Salt Lake City, the US state capital. Grant specifically revealed at the time that she had been forced from a young age to work in a copy shop that printed wedding announcements and invitations to community members because of “the wedding photos of little girls marrying men in incestuous or pluralistic forms.” , are no longer available “Marriages couldn’t be printed at Walmart,” Amanda revealed to the TV show, referring to the country’s largest supermarket chain.
Amanda’s new revelations
Now the 29-year-old American has returned to talk about the issue through some shocking revelations on the American podcast On the Edge with Andrew Gold. The girl confessed in detail that her father’s current third wife was actually her half-sister and that if she had not escaped and thus continued to live in this cult, she would probably have made it forced to marry a relative“The children were missing ears, but we thought it was normal,” said Amanda, explaining that in the family where she grew up they even tore out the pages of science books to avoid justifying deformities between blood relatives.
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“We’ve only had three leaders so far,” Amanda told Andrew Gold, as also reported by the DailyStar. All three were men from the Kingston family. John Daniel Kingston was one of the sect’s longest-running family members sentenced to prison 1999: He forced his then sixteen-year-old daughter to marry his brother and then beat her with a belt when she rebelled against the incestuous marriage. John Ortell Kingston, on the other hand, was Amanda’s grandfather.
The effects of incest
“They wanted us to believe that it was right to marry brothers or sisters,” said the 29-year-old. He then continued: “I argued with a member of the Order because he thought the government was trying to make us believe that there could be problems at a genetic level.” “I said to him, ‘Don’t you see that boy? He has no ear. And the other? He has mental problems’…But when you’re surrounded by it all your life, you think it’s normal.” Of course, polygamy led to large extended families and that’s why Amanda concluded: “Technically I have 32 brothers in total”.