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🗓️ 26 July 2025
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Elizabeth Roundy left a polygamous church rife with abuse in 2020, taking her children with her. Four of them have since disappeared. Who is to blame? And can she track them down?
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0:44.3 | On Sunday the 22nd of June, Elizabeth Roundie, who lives really way out in Idaho, outside of a small town, more like a village |
0:56.7 | called Montaview, took two of her teenage children to an internet cafe. And I say internet |
1:05.1 | cafe, it's really a barn with a computer and Wi-Fi access in the middle of these cornfields. |
1:12.2 | So I told them they could go down there for a little bit to get on the internet, |
1:15.5 | and I thought I was going to be back in about a half hour because I was already late for class. |
1:21.0 | And she went to Bible study class, and when she came back back her children were gone. |
1:28.4 | I walked in and Shelley's tablet was sitting there and my children were gone. |
1:40.2 | What went through your mind and had you found in those moments? |
1:45.0 | I felt my stomach fall and I just like, you know, my heart. |
1:51.6 | I was just devastated. |
1:54.8 | I just thought, oh no, they got away with it. |
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