{"id":80192,"date":"2023-10-20T21:11:26","date_gmt":"2023-10-20T21:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/posterboyedit.com\/?p=80192"},"modified":"2023-10-20T21:11:26","modified_gmt":"2023-10-20T21:11:26","slug":"i-grew-up-in-an-incest-cult-kids-were-missing-ears-but-it-was-normal-to-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/posterboyedit.com\/lifestyle\/i-grew-up-in-an-incest-cult-kids-were-missing-ears-but-it-was-normal-to-us\/","title":{"rendered":"I grew up in an incest cult \u2013 kids were missing ears but it was normal to us"},"content":{"rendered":"
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    A young woman who managed to escape from a bizarre religious cult where children would often be born \u201cmissing an ear\u201d due to inbreeding says teachers would rip out pages of science books that warned about the dangers of incest.<\/p>\n

    Amanda Rae was brought up in the Davis County Cooperative Society, a polygamist sect also known as the Kingston Group or The Order. She says her dad\u2019s third wife is also his half-sister and if she had stayed in the community she would have been forced to marry a relative.<\/p>\n

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    The Kingston cult split from the mainstream Mormon religion in the 1920s after it abandoned polygamy. Through its hundred-year history the church has been plagued by scandals about incest and underaged marriage as well as numerous financial irregularities.<\/p>\n

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    One of the cult's ruling family, John Daniel Kingston was sentenced to prison in 1999, after forcing his then 16-year-old daughter to marry his brother, and then beating her with a belt when she escaped the polygamist marriage<\/p>\n

    \u201cWe've only have have had three leaders so far,\u201d Amanda explained to podcaster Andrew Gold. All of them have been men from the Kingston family. The second \u2013 John Ortell Kingston \u2013 was Amanda\u2019s grandfather.<\/p>\n

    \u201cFor some reason as the second leader he decided that he was going to marry his nieces,\u201d she said. \u201cSo he married multiple nieces, but actually he could only have kids with I believe one of them. The rest of them for some reason they they would be like carrying them to full term and the baby would be like very weak and they would either die like within hours of being born or they would be stillborn.<\/p>\n

    She says that it\u2019s really obvious when a child was born of incest: \u201cWhen I was at the church I was a teacher at the school \u2026 I saw kids with missing ears and there was a lot of internal issues too with the kids.<\/p>\n

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