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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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0:48.2 | From the Times and the Sunday Times, this is the story on Sunday. I'm Manvine Rana. On Sunday, the 22nd of June, Elizabeth Roundy, who lives really way out in Idaho, outside of a small town, more like a village called Montaview, took two of her teenage children to an internet cafe. |
1:11.7 | And I say internet cafe, it's really a barn with a computer and Wi-Fi access in the middle of these cornfields. |
1:20.5 | So I told them they could go down there for a little bit to get on the internet. |
1:23.8 | And I thought I was going to be back in about a half hour because I was already late for class. |
1:29.2 | And she went to Bible study class and when she came back her children were gone. |
1:36.7 | I walked in and Shelley's tablet was sitting there and my children were gone. |
1:49.0 | Thank you. sitting there and my children were gone. What went through your mind and had you found in those moments? |
1:53.0 | I felt my stomach fall and I just like, you know, my heart. |
1:59.0 | I was just devastated. |
2:03.2 | I just thought, oh no, they got away with it. |
2:06.3 | And she knew in that moment |
2:09.0 | that the thing that she had been so terrified |
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