Abuse of Power
Trauma in Polygamy
Before a woman is married, she has value as property bringing her father influence, power, and prestige within the cult. She is “groomed” for her relationship with the man who will be her husband. Her sole purpose is to please her husband by doing what gives him pleasure or satisfaction. She has no right to complain about abuse or injustice. Within the polygamous cult, a woman is an object. The author has been told that “when a woman reaches the age of 40 her husband will replace her with two women who are 20.” After a woman is married she...
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Human Trafficking

Human Trafficking is the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring or receipt of persons, by means of the threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of deception, of the abuse of power or of a position of vulnerability or of the giving or receiving of payments or benefits to achieve the consent of a person having control over another person, for the purpose of exploitation.

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