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Cry Uncle

Warren Jeffs’ nephew tells tales on the FLDS church

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By Robrt L. Pela

Published on May 27, 2009 at 4:01am

Brent Jeffs knew his destiny from an early age. The son of a prominent family in the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Jeffs expected to have multiple wives and significant power in the 10,000-member polygamous FLDS community. But as he grew older, Brent, nephew of Warren Jeffs, the imprisoned leader of the FLDS, became aware that the group’s pious public image cloaked a dark, nasty world filled with sexual abuse and lies. So he bolted, later filing a sexual-abuse lawsuit against his uncle and writing Lost Boys, a book about his childhood and the fate of many other “lost boys” who’ve left or been expelled from FLDS.

Jeffs reads from and signs his memoir at Changing Hands Bookstore.


Mon., June 1, 7 p.m., 2009