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Both Elizabeth [Smart] and Ruby [Jessop] were fourteen when they were kidnapped, raped and kept captive by polygamous fanatics. The main difference in the girls' respective ordeals...is that Elizabeth was brainwashed for nine months, while Ruby had been brainwashed by polygamist fanatics since birth. Despite the similarity of their plights, Elizabeth's abusers were jailed and charged with sexual assault, aggravated burglary, and aggravated kidnapping, while Ruby... was returned to her abusers, no real investigation was done, no charges brought against anyone involved.

Jon Krakauer

Both Elizabeth [Smart] and Ruby [Jessop] were fourteen when they were kidnapped, raped and kept captive by polygamous fanatics. The main difference in the girls' respective ordeals...is that Elizabeth was brainwashed for nine months, while Ruby had been brainwashed by polygamist fanatics since birth. Despite the similarity of their plights, Elizabeth's abusers were jailed and charged with sexual assault, aggravated burglary, and aggravated kidnapping, while Ruby... was returned to her abusers, no real investigation was done, no charges brought against anyone involved.

Tags: mormonism, polygamy, religion, religion and children, women s rights

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About Jon Krakauer

Jon Krakauer (born April 12, 1954) is an American writer and mountaineer. He is the author of bestselling non-fiction books—Into the Wild; Into Thin Air; Under the Banner of Heaven; and Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman—as well as numerous magazine articles. He was a member of an ill-fated expedition to summit Mount Everest in 1996, one of the deadliest disasters in the history of climbing Everest.