He was taking off his belt. Young declined to comment when asked if he practices polygamy. By subscribing, you acknowledge and agree to KSL.com's, Crews searching for woman caught in Weber River, Man taking family camping near Utah Lake hit and killed; driver criminally charged, Westbound I-80 closed due to vehicle fire in Salt Lake City, Utah-based Extra Space Storage to merge with Life Storage in nearly $13B deal, Utah launches statewide turf grass buyback program as it seeks water-use reformation, Have You Seen This? Obsessed with the purity of their bloodline and empowered by a sense of entitlement on par with the divine right of kings, the Kingstons have made incest the cornerstone of a self-serving theology that loathes non whites, fosters homophobia and abhors government authority. Snow and her mother, Shirley Hansen, have differing stories on what the moms role was in her daughters marriage. Snow began dating men when he was 22. There is also some overlap with Sovereign citizens, he contends. (Photo courtesy Shanell DeRieux) Shanell DeRieux, then called Shanell Snow, center, stands with her mother, Shirley Hansen, right, and her father, John Daniel Kingston, in this photo from her legal wedding day, July 3, 2008, in Grand Junction, Colo. Also pictured are DeRiux's now-ex-husband and ex-mother-in-law. Prosecutors have alleged the fraud amounted to almost $511 million, with the money going to the purchase of property in Turkey, among other things. Reading or replaying the story in its While the sect is headquartered in Utah, members will travel to Colorado to wed because cousin marriages are legal there. Sally Kingston is charged with one count of conspiracy to commit mail fraud and one count of money laundering. My 4-year-old comes to me and says she has to find out her No. Her top choice the one whom she felt God told her to marry was a man five years older than she and to whom she was related on both sides of her family tree. The teacher was like, You can never get that out, that is always there now, recalled Jessica, now 29. But attorney Kristen Brewer, director of the Guardian Ad Litems office, described the 13-year-old as a battered child and the older teen as in a precarious position because of her family loyalty and experiences with the state system. And that's the hardest thing to accept.". But The Order saves most of its bile for blacks and other non whites. Similarly, his older brother John Daniel Kingston has had 14 wives, four of them his half-sisters. The Kingston Group is believed to have a few thousand members, mostly in Utah and Idaho. Stephanie Mattingly is the daughter of John Daniel Kingston and Heidi Mattingly. 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 the Idaho line. More troubling, during a contentious 2004 custody case that ensued when Jessica and her sister Andrea fled Daniel Kingstons household, a judge in the case reportedly was the subject of a death threat, allegedly from Kingston clan members. Lu Ann Kingston was 15 when she married her first cousin Jeremy Kingston in a hush-hush 1995 wedding in Bountiful, Utah. only for your personal, non-commercial use. (Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune) New indictments were not a surprise. But anti-polygamy activists and lawyers for the accused question if it's revenge for speaking out against the Kingstons. He even had charts showing who were the higher families in the sect so his daughters knew where to look for a mate. The girl said she did not remember leaving the barn, but woke up the next morning on a couch in the living room of a woman who former members say is one of John Daniel Kingston's 20-plus wives. From Hansens perspective, the entire Kingston Group marriage process is like being told you can have anything to eat as long as it comes from a certain table. If God gives him direction on whom to marry, he goes to his dad. The Tuckers think this is all hogwash now, though they were programmed to believe it at the time. Recordings of church testimony given by various Kingstons serve as further evidence of the cults bigoted teachings. The memorial was held in Maxwell Park in Hildale, Saturday, Sept. 26, 2015. But age alone wont determine her answer. John Daniel Kingston did not return messages seeking comment Tuesday. It was just the best choice, some say, among their bad options. Centered on the trial of John Daniel Kingston, who was tried for assault on his 16-year-old daughter. If Paul Kingston or the designee signs off, the groom next goes to the girls father. Her disobedience incurred the wrath of her father Daniel, who took her to a family ranch near the Idaho border and savagely beat her. Valdez allowed both girls to address their parents after his ruling. 1 choice [of whom to marry] in The Order, Jessica Kingston said. They believe were Gods chosen people, Snow said of the Kingston Group followers, so you should start having kids as soon as possible.. That daughter was born with a form of heart disease and had long acted responsibly in caring for it, Hansen said. Paul Kingston told her congratulations. Three of his wives are his half-sisters. Stephanie told our Sandra Yi she doesn't want to go back. Hansen, Fosters attorney, said he would explore an appeal. What he told me was, Hansen said, Get her married so we dont have to take care of her anymore.. As part of a plea bargain, Jeremy spent just one year in prison. DeRieux says the other two girls were her half-sisters, both age 16. At 15, Snow ran away from home, wound up in a foster home and later was returned to her mother. No child deserves to be beaten or threatened with being beaten, and when they do, they deserve the help of our court, said 3rd District Judge Andrew Valdez. Daniel Irvin, Kingstons defense attorney, had characterized the case as about a stupid pair of earrings, kids who want one thing and parents who want another in his closing arguments. New allegations of abuse in the polygamous Kingston family In Utah, Rep. Angela Romero, D-Salt Lake City, plans a bill that would raise the minimum marriage age to 18. An account controlled by the sect then returned $4.5 million to Washakie. So, all five young ladies are cousins to the late Carolyn Yvonne Kingston. For a stretch in 2014 and 2015, Washakie was one of Utahs highest-profile businesses. But for their part, The Order and other fundamentalist sects believe the LDS church exists in a state of apostasy for abandoning what they see as a bedrock principle of their faith. Over the years, state law enforcement and the courts have sporadically addressed the incest in the Kingston ranks. Why is Frank McCourt really pushing it? (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. rules, Utes seeing transfer portals impact on college gymnastics. Finding one wasnt difficult. Keri Russell: I won't Cruise into scientology, Court documents claim man killed step-daughters in Satanic ritual, Joyce Meyer ministry is selling posh homes, Research Cults, Abusive Churches, Spiritual Abuse, Undue Influence, and More, Pentagon paid $1.7 million to firms of polygamy bosses, AG: Polygamy conviction is the beginning of more prosecutions. For fun he and other Order men would go to a park frequented by gay males, looking for victims. The younger girl will see her mother during counseling sessions and have supervised visits with her siblings. Once free of the cult, Lu Ann, Allison and other ex-Order members have had to unlearn the hatred that was drilled into their heads. Thats what happened with Ron Tuckers family. Former and current members of the Kingston Group say that kids are taught from a young age they one day will need to pray about whom to marry. He was jailed for beating his daughter into unconsciousness in 1998 after the girl, then 16, ran away from an arranged marriage to her uncle. "He said, `You can leave, but you can never come back.' But Thursday, the younger girl recounted two instances last year when she was spanked or thrown down the stairs by her father. They should refrain from this decision until they can be well informed to make a mature and thoughtful decision before entering into marriage.. Similarly, his older brother John Daniel Kingston has had 14 wives, four of them his half-sisters. Depending on ones view, members of the Kingston Group either take care to follow marriage laws, or work to circumvent them. 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.. There was also testimony, during one hearing, that someone in the Kingston clan wanted to blow up the courthouse. For now, the five defendants are the three men charged in August: brothers Jacob and Isaiah Kingston, the chief executive officer and chief financial officer, respectively, of Washakie Renewable Energy; one of the business associates, Lev Dermen; and the two women whose indictments were unsealed Tuesday, Rachel Kingston, 63, and Sally Louise Kingston, the 41-year-old wife of Jacob Kingston. deductible, Report a missed paper by emailingsubscribe@sltrib.comor calling801-237-2900, For e-edition questions or comments, contact customer support801-237-2900or emailsubscribe@sltrib.com. Jessica Kingston said she has heard males talking to one another about a girl and say, If youre going to marry that girl, shes going to have to be a first wife because she wont live polygamy.. When this got around to his dad, his father packed up Snows belongings and left them in the room of a hotel owned by The Order. John Daniel Kingston regularly subjected two of his teenage daughters to abuse and neglect, and the girls' mother Heidi Foster, one of Kingston's estimated 14 wives failed to protect them, a juvenile judge ruled Thursday. If gay men stay in the closet, they are allowed to remain in the cult as worker bees.. When they arrived in Grand Junction, all three couples filled out the papers for a marriage license. During the two-hour preliminary hearing, the girl said she had run away twice, most recently two days before the alleged beating.