Warren Jeffs’ sexual appetite for underage girls knew no bounds.
One of the polygamist cult leader’s daughters revealed Friday that she was molested by her father for several years starting at the age of eight.
Rachel Jeffs told Megyn Kelly that it all started when her father called her into his office one day and exposed himself to her.
‘Very shockingly, father started abusing me sexually. First, presenting what a man looked like… And then, he started sexually abusing me, as a young child.
‘It was so against his teachings, so against what he had taught us, I didn’t know what to think. And I felt terrible. I didn’t know why he was doing it, she said.
Rachel Jeffs, the daughter of FLDS leader Warren Jeffs, revealed to Megyn Kelly on Friday that her father molested her for several years
Warren Jeffs has been in prison since 2006 for molestation, in connection to one of his marriages to an underage girl. He continues to run the church from behind bars, where he is serving a life sentence
Rachel says she told her mother about the abuse when she was 10 years old, and that her mom confronted the so-called ‘prophet’.
But the abuse continued, and Rachel says her father would even take her to book stores to look at pornography.
‘As a very young child, he would take me in there and sit me in the children’s section and bring a book over and force me to look at pictures of pornography,’ she said.
Rachel says she finally got him to stop molesting her when she was 16, and wrote him a letter detailing how he had hurt her.
‘After I confronted him and let him know how I felt about it, I was shocked because the reaction was one of defeat. I’m sorry, you know? That’s what he said.
‘It was a different father than I ever knew,’ she said.
Rachel left the cult in 2015, and has since written a book about her experience.
Breaking Free: How I Escaped Polygamy, the FLDS Cult and My Father Warren Jeffs is due out Tuesday.