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Cults to Consciousness

I Was “Turned In” to FLDS Cult Leader Warren Jeffs at 17

Cults to Consciousness

Shelise Ann Sola, Jonathan C Rosales

Society & Culture

4.8570 Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2026

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Layla Matson was born into a deeply entrenched, multi-generational polygamist FLDS family with direct ties to church leadership. From a young age, her life was shaped by strict religious expectations, economic hardship, and normalized control, ranging from modesty rules and limited education to chiId labor and rigid gender roles. Sacrifice was emphasized, while serious issues like infant de*ths, lack of medical care, and emotional suppression were widespread but rarely questioned.  Layla’s  her story took a dark turn at 17 years old when her father “turned her in” to Warren Jeffs, leading to her forced marriage within 24 hours to the “prophet”. She reflects on the grooming process that began in her early teens, illustrating how young women were coerced into marriages and stripped of autonomy under the guise of faith.

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Warren sat up at the pulpit and he basically reprimanded the fathers. Like he straight up, tore them a new one in church about how they were withholding

0:40.5

their blessings from the prophet, withholding everything that they had. And we knew what he was talking

0:46.3

about. My father tried calling to get an appointment with Warren for three days and he could not get

0:53.1

in. It was like the phone was ringing nonstop. And I remember

0:57.2

driving back and forth past Rueh and Jeff's home and watching father and daughter after

1:03.6

father and daughter, like getting out of their vehicles and going into Ruel and Jeff's home

1:07.9

where his office was. Everyone knew. Being daughter and granddaughter and great-granddaughter of the prophet, I had like all these expectations. And then Warren got on the phone with my father. And he said, you want to turn in your daughters. You have more than one. And he said, yes, I have two. And he said, we will see you tomorrow morning.

1:29.7

I was married within 24 hours of being turned into the prophet.

1:35.2

We went outside.

1:36.3

We were looking around.

1:38.0

And I was so scared.

1:39.6

So scared.

1:40.8

I mean, I'm 17.

1:41.8

He's 46.

1:43.0

And he turned to me and he said, do you know what to call me?

1:47.3

And I said, Uncle Warren. He said, I'm not your uncle. So you call me Warren. I felt a little bit

1:55.0

of betrayal for my father. And it took me clear until 2022 to have this conversation with him and have him say,

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