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So what should we make of
a religious group
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that exists in the shadows?
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[narrator]
When a self-proclaimed profi
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claims a 16-year-old
Carol Dennis as his bride..
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[Carol] I just started
crying hysterically,
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but my mother said,
"This is your calling."
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[narrator]
...it's just the beginning o
her hell on Earth.
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[Carol] He brought in
another wife
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and he would have sex with h
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with me in the bed.
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[narrator] But in a world
where the law of the Lord
trumps the law of the land..
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[man] They were beaten,
assaulted, kicked.
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King was a violent
master manipulator.
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[narrator] ...those in powe
make their own rules
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and escape
is the only option.
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[Carol] He would say,
"Don't ever leave.
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I will track you down
and I will kill you."
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I thought for sure
he would find me.
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I was high-energy.
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From the time I was born,
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I was happy-go-lucky.
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Anything to do with
outdoors brought me joy.
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But my mom thought
the world was evil
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and, one day,
God would destroy it.
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My dad didn't really pay
any attention to any of it.
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He worked all the time.
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He drove a bus and taxi cab
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[narrator] It's the late '60
in Owen Sound, Ontario.
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Carol Dennis' mom takes her
to a new church
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founded by a charismatic
Mormon minister.
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[Daphne Bramham]
Stan King told everyone
that God had spoken to him
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and that this was his destiny
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that he was to be the profit.
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[Carol] And my mother
got all interested in it
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and joined Stan's church,
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the Church of
Jesus Christ Restored.
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And that's how it all starte
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I didn't know all the
hidden secrets at that time.
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As Stan got to trust
my mother a little bit,
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she was brought into
that inner circle
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where some of these secrets
were being shared.
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There was a lot of
whispering going on.
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Mom was receiving phone call
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[narrator] As a sheltered
teen, unexposed to
the outside world,
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Carol is ill-prepared for
the day her mother
sits her down for a talk.
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She said, "God has
a special calling for you.
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He wants you to be
Stan King's wife."
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I looked at her in disbelief.
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I said, "Well,
he already has a wife.
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That's not possible."
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She said, "Well,
this is what God wants.
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This is your calling."
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[Daphne] The doctrine of
polygamy is really based
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in Joseph Smith's teaching
that having many wives
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was important in order to
get to the kingdom of heaven
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So who better to groom
a young girl to
become a polygamist wife
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than her mother?
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If God is speaking
to the man who
wants to marry your daughter
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you give up your daughter
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because your family
gets to go to the
celestial kingdom with you.
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[Carol] She said,
"You are going to give birt
to special children,
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special sons that will do
great work for God."
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I just started
crying hysterically.
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It was just revolting to me
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I said,
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"He's old.
He's double my age."
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I'd be 16, 17.
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From that point on,
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my life was sheer hell.
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She started
giving me medication,
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sedating me to calm me down
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What she gave me,
I don't remember.
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Finally, I was just
a walking zombie.
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I started to lose Carol.
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I had to become somebody else.
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It's a grueling process.
It's a slow process.
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If you don't follow the rule
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you don't get into heaven.
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And those are very, very
powerful ideas.
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[Carol] Finally,
there was a little trial run
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There was a member
that lived in Owen Sound
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and I was to go
to this lady's house.
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And when I got there,
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everybody left.
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Except Stan.
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We joked and chitchatted,
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and the next I knew,
he was on top of me
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and I was horrified.
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And I jumped up
and started screaming.
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So he phoned my mother
and she came and got me.
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A few days later,
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Mom received another call
from the same lady,
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"Bring Carol.
Stan's not here."
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And when I got there,
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she started yelling at me.
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"How dare you? Don't you
reject him like that."
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So Mom took me home
after that episode,
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and things proceeded
from there.
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My mother continued to
manipulate me
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and work with me
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until, eventually, I gave up.
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[narrator] In 1971,
when Carol is of legal age,
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she feels she has
no choice but to move
to Stan King's farm
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where he has established
a commune of about
a dozen followers.
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[man] Owen Sounds about
two and a half hours
north of Toronto.
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So when most people
think of cult,
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they might think of jungles
in South America.
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They might think of
very remote places in
the middle of the desert.
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Not the case.
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Cults take places,
as we've learned, anywhere.
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And they can take place
close to population bases.
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And that's certainly
what happened in this case.
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And it was a surprise,
a shock to a lot of people.
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[narrator] Stan's legal wife
Erna, lives at the farm,
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although she spends
most nights away
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working as a nurse.
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Also part of Carol's
new family
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are Stan and Erna's sons,
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Judd, Joe and Fred,
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one of whom will be
Stan's future heir.
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[Carol]
They were around my age.
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I did like them.
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I knew them from
the young people's group
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at the church.
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But Fred,
he was the youngest son.
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He didn't really like
everybody being there.
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His normal life changed when
Stan took on wives.
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It upset his world
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and there was a resentment.
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[narrator] Carol has been
saving herself for marriage
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I dreamed of the day that
I would find the right fella
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and fall in love.
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[narrator] But now, she wil
be Stan's fourth wife.
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[Carol] A legal wife,
you have the paperwork
to go with it.
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A church wife,
there's no paperwork involve
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It's the sex act that
makes you a spiritual wife.
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I was expected
to sleep with the profit,
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but I just could not do it.
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I would go to bed
with my clothes on.
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And that went on for
the longest time.
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And in the meanwhile,
they were teaching me
things around the farm.
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We had a lot of company
coming and going
all the time.
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So there were a
lot of people to feed
and a lot of dishes to do
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and a lot of cleaning to do
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I didn't drive, but I was
allowed to go for walks.
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I could go
and sit by the river
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and just enjoy the peace.
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Those are the things
that kept me going.
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But I was always frightened
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especially at bedtime.
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One of the paradoxes in
these polygamist groups
is that
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they don't teach them
anything about sex.
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Most of them don't know.
It's all very hush-hush.
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[narrator] Finally,
the day comes
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when the profit grows tired
of Carol's resistance.
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[Carol] I was ordered
into the bed
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and he was having sex with me
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and that's
all there was to it.
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I didn't wanna go.
I was terrified.
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[narrator] This sexual assau
is just the beginning
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of Carol's
unrelenting nightmare.
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[Daphne] Pedophiles will
charm the parents
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and then they
give up their children.
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Stan King followed
the playbook.
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[Carol] He brought in a wife
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She was 14 at the time.
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[Daphne] They are expected
to do what the profit
wants them to do.
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[Carol] It was horrible,
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absolutely horrible.
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[narrator] A few months afte
Carol Dennis moves
onto his farm commune,
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Stan King makes her
his church wife
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by taking her virginity.
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[Carol] I guess you could
call it rape.
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And from that time on,
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I was his wife and expected
to perform like a wife.
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There was a lot of
psychological control.
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You had to make
the profit happy.
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Eventually,
he brought in a wife,
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a young girl,
and she stayed with us.
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And he would have sex with her
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with me in the bed.
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Her name was Lollie.
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She became Stan's wife
when she was ten years old.
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So she was quite comfortabl
with that life.
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[Daphne] The expectation
when you're a polygamist wif
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is that you will do
whatever you're told.
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If your husband says to you,
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"You must come
to my bed tonight,"
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and he asks two other wives,
or three other wives,
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they all must show up.
And when they show up,
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they are expected to do what
the profit wants them to do.
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[Carol] You just learn
to be obedient.
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If you didn't please
the profit
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or showed any kind
of resistance,
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nobody in the house
would talk to you.
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That was a very lonely world.
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[Daphne] Everything in
polygamy comes down to
arithmetic.
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If one man has five wives,
it means four men have none.
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It's not good for anybody
unless you're the leader.
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Eventually,
there would be group sex.
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And certainly that was
even worse than one wife
in bed with you.
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It was horrifying,
but it made him happy
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and that was life.
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[Daphne]
While Carol's night duties
are in the bedroom,
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her days offer little respit
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[Carol]
It was a busy, busy life.
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We raised turkeys and pigs
on a large scale.
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[Tamming]
To keep a cult going,
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it needs income.
It needs financing.
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And it's really easy
to make money
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when you don't
pay your employees.
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They were working
long hard hours.
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He started
a health food business.
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I became very involved
with all of that.
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I've always had somewhat
of a business mind anyway.
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[narrator] Carol's involveme
in the cult's business
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helps compensate for
a lack of family contact.
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Her mother moves to Missour
on behalf of the cult
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while her father remains
in Ontario
and rejects the religion.
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[Carol] Stan didn't want
my father around
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to influence me in any way.
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[phone ringing]
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He would phone to the farm,
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but he was told
I wasn't there.
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[phone continues ringing]
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[narrator] In 1976,
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Carol finally makes good
on her most important job.
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[Carol] When I was about 23
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I had a large cyst on my ovary
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which was removed.
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Three months after surgery,
I was pregnant.
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My father didn't know
anything about it.
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But about six weeks
before my son was born,
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he worried for my safety.
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He didn't always
understand everything
that was going on,
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but he loved me
and he couldn't understand
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why I couldn't
pick up the phone
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and just call him and say,
"Hi, Dad,
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I'm okay."
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So he contacted the police.
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[narrator] This presents
the opportunity that
Carol had been hoping for.
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Police intervention.
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I wanted to leave.
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I wanted to be saved.
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But when police
arrive at the farm,
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Stan orders Carol to hide.
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[Carol] Stan went outside
and we could hear everything
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They were just chitchatting
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and Stan reassured them
that I was fine.
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He suggested
that perhaps my father
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had mental issues.
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After all, Carol's an adult,
24 years old.
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So everything was dropped
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and the police were pleasan
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and they drove away.
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[narrator] Now, Stan takes
action to embed Carol even
more deeply into the cult.
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After that episode,
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they made me marry his
eldest son, Joe King,
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to protect my unborn child.
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Stan, being the father,
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they didn't want that reveal
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that he had
a polygamist wife,
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let alone many
polygamist wives.
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So the marriage to Joe
was a sham marriage,
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on paper only.
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He never touched me.
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[narrator] On July 2nd, 1977
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Carol gives birth to
a baby boy.
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It was...
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[voice breaking]
It was amazing.
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It brought me
so much happiness.
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So much.
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And then 18 months
after he was born,
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I had my second son.
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Two bundles of joy.
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It gave me reason to...
to live.
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Stan would beam
when he was around them.
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He just loved them.
He adored them.
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And my sons adored him, too.
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They loved him so much.
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[narrator] For the first tim
in five years,
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Carol feels some contentmen
in her life.
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But Stan's youngest son, Fre
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doesn't share the sentiment
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[Carol] Fred King showed
episodes of jealousy
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towards my sons.
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He would torment them.
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"Here's a candy," and would
almost be in their hand,
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and he'd take it away
and put it in his own mouth.
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He was just mean to them.
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[narrator] By 1982,
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Stan's cult has grown
to include 80 congregants
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in the surrounding area.
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[Carol]
There was a lot happening.
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Stan eventually bought
a printing company,
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which still exists to this day
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and is very successful.
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[narrator] Stan also buys
a former ski lodge
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just outside Owen Sound
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to accommodate
his growing flock.
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There was a lot of
heavy-duty renovation
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and everybody was
working at it to help.
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We had a church branch
in India.
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We supported
an orphanage there.
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[narrator] By 1986,
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Stan has seven wives
and ten children.
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He has fulfilled his dream
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and Carol has come to terms
with her role
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when tragedy strikes.
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[phone ringing]
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[Carol] One day one of
his wives phoned me and said
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"I think Stan
has had a stroke.
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He wants you here. Now."
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They did some testing
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and said he had
two aneurysms on his brain.
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And the doctor said
he would need surgery.
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So the decision was his
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and he said no.
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So he went back home to die
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And the last day came.
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I was with him and I did
see him take his last breat
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and I felt his last heartbeat.
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Fred was really angry
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and he blamed Stan's death
on the members,
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on all of us.
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And then he decided
to resuscitate him.
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Fred did
the heart compressions
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and then I was told
I would do the mouth-to-mout
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He would swear at me,
"Keep going, bitch.
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Keep going."
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[narrator]
Stan is unresponsive.
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But Fred will not be deterre
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[Daphne] She has to try
and wash the body
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and try and
keep the body clean.
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Even as it's decomposing.
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[Carol] It is the worst smel
I have ever smelled.
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I still have
a nightmare about it.
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[narrator] Carol will soon
learn that Fred's wrath
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has only just begun.
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[narrator]
Hours after the death,
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Fred King remains convinced
that his father
will rise from the dead
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and insists that Carol
continue to care for him.
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[Carol] It was unbelievable
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I knew he was gone,
and I did not believe
he was coming back.
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But I had to
bathe the body every day.
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And I would have to
tie a scarf around my mouth
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so I didn't breathe it in
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because it would make you
feel so nauseated.
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But also his body was going
puffy and distorted.
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It was horrible,
absolutely horrible.
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After almost a week,
a priesthood member said,
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"Look, this body
needs to be buried."
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And Fred agreed.
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So the ambulance,
the coroner were all called
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The police were there.
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We had to write out
what happened.
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We were to say that
his wife, Erna,
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just could not
give up the body.
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And that reason was
accepted by the police.
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And no charges were laid.
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I eventually
had to tell my children
that their father died.
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That was hard.
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Some years before,
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Stan said that Fred would
take over his position.
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But I worried about Fred
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because I knew
he didn't like me.
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And I thought, "Will Fred
be able to lead this church?
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00:21:25,660 --> 00:21:27,868
Or will we all go to hell?"
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When Fred took over,
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he kicked myself and
my two sons out of the farm
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and I was supposed
to move to Guelph with
another church wife,
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Angie, and her children.
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[narrator] Although Carol
continues to attend church
every weekend,
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her new home
is two hours away.
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[Carol] It was a really
big deal for my children.
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They were country boys
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and, suddenly, we had
neighbors all around us.
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00:22:00,361 --> 00:22:03,779
And Angie didn't
really like me.
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But at least the church wif
thing would be over with.
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And I was looking forward
to that part of it.
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I was told to pick up
a cleaning job
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and every cent I made was
handed over to Angie
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because I wasn't trustworthy
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It was a new chapter,
a very different chapter.
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[narrator] A year later,
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one of Carol's main
assumptions about her new li
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is shattered.
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It was conveyed to Angie
to tell me
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that Fred would be taking over
all the wives.
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And so I would
be married to Fred.
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The horror to me was
being married to someone
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that I did not want
to be with.
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I thought I would not be
that type of a slave anymore.
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I was overcome with
the shock of it all.
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[Daphne] It's like property
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The new profit will quite
often take
the previous profit's wives
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And in this case,
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it was a toxic mixture of
Fred with Carol.
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[Carol] He showed up
at my house
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and he said,
"Take your pants off
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and get on the bed."
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00:23:21,067 --> 00:23:23,526
And he had sex with me.
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00:23:24,654 --> 00:23:28,364
I felt degraded.
I found him revolting.
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00:23:29,200 --> 00:23:31,826
He was considered
my stepson
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and half brother
to my own children.
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00:23:35,248 --> 00:23:36,956
But I had no choice.
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00:23:38,418 --> 00:23:42,044
And I was in the same
situation all over again.
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00:23:42,880 --> 00:23:44,755
It was so depressing.
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00:23:51,305 --> 00:23:53,305
Fred just didn't preach.
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He started pointing out
how sinful everyone was.
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In the church, there was
an 80-year-old lady.
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We called her Nana.
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00:24:04,935 --> 00:24:07,570
One night
during a night service,
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she dozed off.
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00:24:09,449 --> 00:24:11,115
Fred rose his voice
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00:24:11,192 --> 00:24:14,160
and preceded to chastise her.
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00:24:14,162 --> 00:24:16,871
She was forced to stand up
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00:24:16,906 --> 00:24:20,499
and pull her pants down
to her ankles
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for the rest of the night.
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When chastisement started,
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you would just see
every head in the room
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00:24:32,296 --> 00:24:34,597
just immediately...
[makes shooting sound]
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If anyone ever intervened,
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00:24:39,145 --> 00:24:41,103
they would be dead meat.
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00:24:42,064 --> 00:24:45,399
Various people
were physically assaulted.
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[Daphne]
Many of these profits,
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00:24:47,987 --> 00:24:50,863
it depends where they come
in the lineage.
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00:24:51,657 --> 00:24:54,074
Stan King had to be
a charming guy
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00:24:54,076 --> 00:24:56,577
in order to get people
to follow him.
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00:24:56,579 --> 00:24:58,496
Fred doesn't have
to be charming.
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00:24:58,498 --> 00:25:00,331
He has inherited this.
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00:25:00,333 --> 00:25:03,667
As a mother,
seeing my sons assaulted,
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00:25:03,744 --> 00:25:06,045
it just shattered me inside
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00:25:06,121 --> 00:25:10,132
I would think to myself
horrible things about Fred.
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00:25:10,134 --> 00:25:12,009
Like "Should I get
his butcher knife
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00:25:12,086 --> 00:25:13,719
and slit his throat?"
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00:25:15,765 --> 00:25:20,184
You were a work slave.
You were a sex slave.
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00:25:20,186 --> 00:25:23,020
He took his frustration out
on all of us.
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00:25:26,776 --> 00:25:29,151
One time, my son and I
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00:25:29,153 --> 00:25:34,323
wanted to buy a couple of
books for Fred's sons
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00:25:34,325 --> 00:25:36,450
who were having a birthday.
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00:25:36,452 --> 00:25:38,160
But we didn't have
the money
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00:25:38,162 --> 00:25:42,540
so we knew if you went
picking raspberries,
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00:25:42,542 --> 00:25:44,124
you could get paid.
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00:25:45,628 --> 00:25:51,006
So we did this,
and within a few days,
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00:25:51,092 --> 00:25:53,926
Angie went to Fred
and tattled on us.
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00:25:55,888 --> 00:25:57,888
[narrator] The following
Sunday at church,
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00:25:57,890 --> 00:26:01,183
Fred asked Carol
to step outside.
449
00:26:01,185 --> 00:26:03,394
[Carol]
I tried to explain to him
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00:26:03,396 --> 00:26:08,482
that we were going
to buy a couple presents
for his two sons.
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00:26:08,559 --> 00:26:10,484
But he just roared at me.
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00:26:10,486 --> 00:26:13,445
I was "evil." I was a "pig.
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00:26:13,447 --> 00:26:18,033
And he started
throwing me against
the pillar on the porch.
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I lost track of
how many times he slammed me
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00:26:22,331 --> 00:26:26,208
And then I was
on the cement ground.
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00:26:26,210 --> 00:26:28,794
Obviously,
I had been unconscious.
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00:26:28,796 --> 00:26:31,463
But he was
still screaming at me.
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00:26:31,540 --> 00:26:36,135
Finally, he informed one of
his other church wives,
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00:26:36,211 --> 00:26:38,929
"Get her something to wear.
And he left.
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00:26:39,432 --> 00:26:41,432
My clothes were ripped,
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00:26:41,508 --> 00:26:44,476
my nose was bleeding,
my mouth was bleeding.
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00:26:44,478 --> 00:26:45,811
And she looked at me
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00:26:45,813 --> 00:26:47,980
and filled with tears.
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00:26:48,057 --> 00:26:51,317
He didn't know it,
but she gave me a hug.
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00:26:51,777 --> 00:26:55,029
To this day, I am in pain
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00:26:55,656 --> 00:26:57,448
because of that beating.
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00:27:01,662 --> 00:27:03,028
[narrator] Five years later
468
00:27:03,030 --> 00:27:05,831
when Carol's eldest son
is 30 years old,
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00:27:05,833 --> 00:27:09,627
he wakes her up one day
with some life-changing news
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00:27:11,213 --> 00:27:13,505
He said that I have
someone picking me up
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00:27:14,425 --> 00:27:15,716
and I'm leaving.
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00:27:17,094 --> 00:27:18,344
I was shocked.
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00:27:18,346 --> 00:27:21,138
He didn't want
to leave us behind.
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00:27:21,256 --> 00:27:24,683
But his chastisements were
getting so severe.
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00:27:24,685 --> 00:27:29,396
He said, "I know you two
are not ready to leave yet.
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00:27:29,398 --> 00:27:31,732
But I just can't do it.
I can't take any more."
477
00:27:33,402 --> 00:27:36,153
So I stayed
for my youngest son.
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00:27:36,230 --> 00:27:38,280
But I couldn't quit crying.
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00:27:38,324 --> 00:27:40,366
I was falling apart.
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00:27:40,368 --> 00:27:44,578
I was in so much trouble
because my eldest son left.
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00:27:44,580 --> 00:27:50,000
My life was just even worse,
if you can imagine that.
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00:27:50,002 --> 00:27:53,962
I was chastised because
I was an "unfit mother."
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00:27:58,052 --> 00:28:01,512
[narrator] A year later,
the pain becomes unbearable
484
00:28:02,556 --> 00:28:04,682
[Carol] And I thought then,
485
00:28:04,684 --> 00:28:07,518
"Look around at
all the people you love.
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00:28:07,520 --> 00:28:10,396
Because you'll never
see them again."
487
00:28:10,398 --> 00:28:15,359
Monday morning when I get home
and everybody's gone to work,
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00:28:15,361 --> 00:28:19,571
I will sneak out
and phone my eldest son.
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00:28:19,573 --> 00:28:22,116
I made all the
arrangements to leave
490
00:28:22,118 --> 00:28:24,660
and a time was set.
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00:28:24,704 --> 00:28:28,580
When my youngest son
came home, he said to me,
492
00:28:28,582 --> 00:28:32,209
"I'm too afraid
I will go to hell."
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00:28:32,211 --> 00:28:34,628
I said,
"He's going to kill me."
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00:28:34,630 --> 00:28:37,005
But he didn't
want me to leave.
495
00:28:37,007 --> 00:28:38,623
He blocked the door.
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00:28:42,680 --> 00:28:44,346
[narrator] Carol King has
finally mustered the courag
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00:28:44,348 --> 00:28:46,724
to escape Fred King's tyrann
498
00:28:46,726 --> 00:28:49,768
But she's faced with
an impossible dilemma.
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00:28:49,803 --> 00:28:53,522
Her 29-year-old son
refuses to leave.
500
00:28:53,524 --> 00:28:57,901
Finally, my youngest son
moved away from the door
501
00:28:57,903 --> 00:28:59,445
and let me leave.
502
00:28:59,447 --> 00:29:01,238
I said, "I love you,"
503
00:29:01,240 --> 00:29:03,615
and grabbed my belongings.
504
00:29:03,692 --> 00:29:08,078
Everything I had in the world
was in two garbage bags.
505
00:29:08,080 --> 00:29:10,581
My eldest son arrived
with a vehicle
506
00:29:10,657 --> 00:29:12,958
and I was out of there.
507
00:29:14,587 --> 00:29:20,174
Leaving my youngest son
behind was torture to me.
508
00:29:20,176 --> 00:29:24,136
But he knew
if he wanted to leave,
509
00:29:24,213 --> 00:29:26,472
he could reach out to me.
510
00:29:26,474 --> 00:29:28,766
Maybe someday he would.
511
00:29:28,768 --> 00:29:32,394
[narrator] Carol has been
with the cult for 37 years.
512
00:29:32,438 --> 00:29:34,313
It's all she's ever known.
513
00:29:38,277 --> 00:29:41,361
[Carol] Eventually,
my eldest son and I
514
00:29:41,363 --> 00:29:43,822
landed back in Owen Sound
515
00:29:44,825 --> 00:29:47,451
and we started a new life.
516
00:29:48,788 --> 00:29:51,705
I landed a job
cleaning offices.
517
00:29:52,666 --> 00:29:55,000
Things were difficult.
518
00:29:55,002 --> 00:29:56,710
I didn't always have
enough food.
519
00:29:56,712 --> 00:29:59,171
I had to walk everywhere.
520
00:29:59,173 --> 00:30:02,132
I worked all day
and most evenings.
521
00:30:03,594 --> 00:30:04,968
[Daphne] Carol was lucky.
522
00:30:04,970 --> 00:30:07,763
She was lucky that
her son chose to leave
523
00:30:07,765 --> 00:30:10,390
and was the catalyst
to her leaving.
524
00:30:10,467 --> 00:30:12,893
She was lucky that
she was resilient.
525
00:30:12,895 --> 00:30:15,437
And she was
extraordinarily lucky
526
00:30:15,439 --> 00:30:18,941
that one of the people
she met while she was cleaning
was John.
527
00:30:20,027 --> 00:30:21,376
[John Christie]
When I met Carol,
528
00:30:21,378 --> 00:30:24,780
I was a city councilor
in Owen Sound.
529
00:30:24,782 --> 00:30:28,909
I was also doing some
contract work
at Bayshore Broadcasting.
530
00:30:28,986 --> 00:30:32,538
This lady named Carol
started to appear
531
00:30:32,540 --> 00:30:34,206
at the radio station.
532
00:30:35,084 --> 00:30:40,504
He introduced himself
and a friendship blossomed.
533
00:30:40,506 --> 00:30:42,422
He could make me laugh.
534
00:30:42,424 --> 00:30:44,967
And it really
felt good to laugh
535
00:30:44,969 --> 00:30:50,264
because I had lost my
sense of humor over the years.
536
00:30:50,340 --> 00:30:53,684
Eventually, he did
ask me out to dinner
537
00:30:53,686 --> 00:30:57,938
and I said yes,
which shocked me.
538
00:30:59,483 --> 00:31:04,403
And our friendship grew
into a romantic situation.
539
00:31:05,656 --> 00:31:10,659
It was the first time
I had ever been in love.
540
00:31:10,703 --> 00:31:12,202
This is what it's like.
541
00:31:13,289 --> 00:31:14,997
I was totally smitten.
542
00:31:14,999 --> 00:31:17,040
[laughs] Just totally.
543
00:31:21,881 --> 00:31:25,007
Three or four months
into our relationship,
544
00:31:25,009 --> 00:31:26,884
she decided to sit me down
545
00:31:26,886 --> 00:31:29,094
and tell me what her past wa
546
00:31:30,890 --> 00:31:33,473
When she finished that
she said,
547
00:31:33,475 --> 00:31:35,684
"If you decide to walk away,
548
00:31:35,686 --> 00:31:37,102
I will understand."
549
00:31:37,104 --> 00:31:39,605
And I said, "Well,
what do you want me to do?"
550
00:31:39,607 --> 00:31:41,648
And she said,
"I want you to stay."
551
00:31:42,693 --> 00:31:45,694
And so, here we are.
552
00:31:48,991 --> 00:31:52,284
I couldn't propose to Carol
until her divorce came throu
553
00:31:52,286 --> 00:31:55,412
from the sham marriage
to Joe King.
554
00:31:55,998 --> 00:31:59,625
It was essentially
uncontested.
555
00:31:59,627 --> 00:32:02,836
And then it was time to
propose to her, because now
556
00:32:02,913 --> 00:32:05,631
she's legally
available material.
557
00:32:06,800 --> 00:32:09,051
[Carol]
We were married in October.
558
00:32:09,094 --> 00:32:10,928
It was such a happy day.
559
00:32:11,004 --> 00:32:12,379
Very small wedding
560
00:32:12,381 --> 00:32:16,725
and a new chapter
on that path of freedom.
561
00:32:18,687 --> 00:32:20,604
[narrator] But despite
Carol's happy ending,
562
00:32:20,681 --> 00:32:22,981
she hasn't yet dealt
with her own demons.
563
00:32:23,058 --> 00:32:25,609
And the trauma she suffered
for so many years
564
00:32:25,611 --> 00:32:27,402
was brimming
under the surface.
565
00:32:29,406 --> 00:32:31,615
A winter coat
that John had bought me
566
00:32:31,617 --> 00:32:33,700
that meant so much to me
567
00:32:34,119 --> 00:32:35,285
was stolen.
568
00:32:35,362 --> 00:32:39,289
For someone to steal that
off a coat rack,
569
00:32:39,366 --> 00:32:41,625
I just could
not get over that.
570
00:32:41,627 --> 00:32:46,672
And that's when I said,
"I'm tired of being a victim."
571
00:32:46,674 --> 00:32:51,426
I want to do something
about Fred.
572
00:32:51,428 --> 00:32:56,932
He caused so much
pain and agony,
573
00:32:56,934 --> 00:33:01,436
he needed to lose all
his pleasures and privileges
574
00:33:02,982 --> 00:33:06,692
And that's when
legal actions were started.
575
00:33:11,115 --> 00:33:13,031
[John Tamming] So many time
I've interviewed clients
576
00:33:13,033 --> 00:33:15,701
that have suffered deep
sexual abuse.
577
00:33:17,162 --> 00:33:20,831
And it's incredibly painful
to go through those memories.
578
00:33:20,907 --> 00:33:22,249
It just is.
579
00:33:22,251 --> 00:33:25,919
And many of them are
very busted-up human beings.
580
00:33:26,588 --> 00:33:28,547
But Carol, from somewhere,
581
00:33:28,549 --> 00:33:31,925
was just like
a Rock of Gibraltar.
582
00:33:31,927 --> 00:33:35,846
And I remember just
being gobsmacked
by what I was being told.
583
00:33:35,848 --> 00:33:37,347
And I just let Carol talk
584
00:33:37,349 --> 00:33:39,808
and talk and talk.
585
00:33:39,852 --> 00:33:42,853
We knew that
the criminal justice system
in this country,
586
00:33:42,929 --> 00:33:45,772
the sentences for
even some of
the worst sexual abuse
587
00:33:45,849 --> 00:33:48,692
just often are not
very meaningful.
588
00:33:48,694 --> 00:33:50,510
Let's be blunt.
589
00:33:50,512 --> 00:33:53,196
If you want to get
to somebody like Fred,
you get his pocketbook.
590
00:33:55,701 --> 00:33:57,659
[John] We filed a civil sui
591
00:33:57,661 --> 00:34:00,829
which spelled out
a number of abuses,
592
00:34:02,374 --> 00:34:05,083
including physical, sexual,
593
00:34:05,085 --> 00:34:07,836
financial and psychological
594
00:34:07,838 --> 00:34:11,465
And there was a price put
on each of those things.
595
00:34:12,968 --> 00:34:15,844
And early February of 2010,
596
00:34:15,846 --> 00:34:19,097
Fred King was served
with the papers.
597
00:34:19,174 --> 00:34:24,478
It was the first time
Fred had ever been sued
598
00:34:24,554 --> 00:34:27,064
over anything
or taken to court.
599
00:34:27,140 --> 00:34:29,733
I can imagine
he didn't like it.
600
00:34:30,444 --> 00:34:32,402
[Tamming]
When I first met Fred,
601
00:34:32,404 --> 00:34:34,404
I just felt like I was
in the presence of evil.
602
00:34:34,481 --> 00:34:36,464
His eyes were dead.
603
00:34:36,466 --> 00:34:39,117
And it occurred to me
that this was one of
the first times
604
00:34:39,119 --> 00:34:40,635
in his life
605
00:34:40,637 --> 00:34:45,373
that somebody was not really
that intimidated by him.
606
00:34:45,375 --> 00:34:48,668
I get to probe about,
"What did you think
the beating of her sons?"
607
00:34:48,670 --> 00:34:50,587
In front of Carol.
608
00:34:50,664 --> 00:34:53,006
"What did you think, Fred,
that would do to the group?"
609
00:34:53,083 --> 00:34:55,592
It was not a good day
for Fred.
610
00:34:59,848 --> 00:35:02,015
[narrator] Immediately
following the interview,
611
00:35:02,017 --> 00:35:05,143
Fred's lawyer settles
with one stipulation.
612
00:35:05,145 --> 00:35:08,105
Carol may not go public
with the dollar value.
613
00:35:09,358 --> 00:35:11,149
I was quite happy about it.
614
00:35:11,151 --> 00:35:14,069
It helped me out a lot.
615
00:35:14,071 --> 00:35:16,279
The bank teller said
it was the largest check
616
00:35:16,281 --> 00:35:18,907
she had ever deposited
in her career,
617
00:35:19,326 --> 00:35:20,951
which was a lengthy career.
618
00:35:21,027 --> 00:35:24,204
A couple of days after
we deposited the check,
619
00:35:25,332 --> 00:35:27,374
we met for lunch,
a celebratory lunch,
620
00:35:27,376 --> 00:35:28,917
with John Tamming.
621
00:35:28,961 --> 00:35:31,628
And he said to us,
622
00:35:31,705 --> 00:35:34,172
"You're free to
do whatever you want,
623
00:35:34,174 --> 00:35:36,091
as long as you don't
disclose the amount.
624
00:35:36,093 --> 00:35:37,425
You could write a book.
625
00:35:37,469 --> 00:35:39,052
You can go to the media."
626
00:35:39,054 --> 00:35:40,804
So we decided to do both.
627
00:35:42,057 --> 00:35:44,474
[TV show host]
A secretive sect,
a dominating leader,
628
00:35:44,551 --> 00:35:46,852
young brides taken on faith
629
00:35:46,854 --> 00:35:48,478
-Ten was the youngest.
-Ten?
630
00:35:48,555 --> 00:35:51,898
[Carol] He would scream,
"If you leave this church,
631
00:35:51,900 --> 00:35:55,193
I will hunt you down
and kill you."
632
00:35:55,195 --> 00:35:57,612
[narrator] Carol's bold choi
to tell her story
633
00:35:57,614 --> 00:36:00,532
will have
unexpected consequences.
634
00:36:01,368 --> 00:36:03,577
As I first watched this
on television,
635
00:36:03,653 --> 00:36:05,412
I was, uh, very surprised
636
00:36:05,414 --> 00:36:08,707
that this was happening
right under our noses.
637
00:36:08,783 --> 00:36:10,625
I was anxious to
get him into custody.
638
00:36:15,841 --> 00:36:18,633
[narrator] Grey County Polic
are launching an investigati
639
00:36:18,677 --> 00:36:21,595
into Fred King's
polygamous cult.
640
00:36:22,890 --> 00:36:26,308
First step was to go
and meet Carol Christie.
641
00:36:26,310 --> 00:36:29,102
The whole story is
so bizarre
642
00:36:29,179 --> 00:36:32,480
that it is
somewhat unbelievable.
643
00:36:32,482 --> 00:36:34,399
But they believed me.
644
00:36:35,777 --> 00:36:38,820
[Peter] We're trying to put
together enough evidence
645
00:36:38,822 --> 00:36:41,948
to have a formal interview
with Fred King
646
00:36:41,950 --> 00:36:44,201
and his legal wife
Linda King.
647
00:36:49,208 --> 00:36:50,624
So we have to get
the interviews done
648
00:36:50,626 --> 00:36:52,959
of all the other people first.
649
00:36:52,961 --> 00:36:55,629
I did find it odd that
the different church wives
650
00:36:55,705 --> 00:36:58,506
would actually give
the same answers
651
00:36:58,592 --> 00:37:02,344
and, particularly, as far as
"Who's the father of
your children?"
652
00:37:02,346 --> 00:37:04,930
Their answer being
"I don't know,"
653
00:37:04,932 --> 00:37:06,306
was somewhat scripted.
654
00:37:06,308 --> 00:37:08,132
I heard that over and over.
655
00:37:08,134 --> 00:37:12,103
[narrator]
Police also tracked down
a few other cult escapees.
656
00:37:12,180 --> 00:37:14,981
They told us a number of cases
where they were physically
657
00:37:14,983 --> 00:37:17,400
beaten, assaulted, kicked,
658
00:37:17,402 --> 00:37:21,488
or the allegation of Fred
grooming a very young girl,
659
00:37:21,490 --> 00:37:24,366
eleven to thirteen
years of age.
660
00:37:24,368 --> 00:37:27,327
Fred King was a violent
master manipulator.
661
00:37:32,376 --> 00:37:35,001
[Carol] When Fred
got wind of it all,
662
00:37:35,003 --> 00:37:37,161
he disappeared.
663
00:37:37,163 --> 00:37:40,131
[reporter] Police are still
looking for 55-year-old
Frederick King.
664
00:37:40,133 --> 00:37:43,343
He has been charged with
assault, sexual exploitation
665
00:37:43,345 --> 00:37:45,086
assault causing bodily harm
666
00:37:45,097 --> 00:37:48,139
uttering death threats and
assault with a deadly weapon
667
00:37:48,216 --> 00:37:53,019
[narrator] Weeks pass
and finally there is a brea
in the investigation.
668
00:37:53,021 --> 00:37:55,939
A license plate
associated to Mr. King
669
00:37:55,974 --> 00:37:59,609
had been run by an officer
in front of a motel.
670
00:38:01,697 --> 00:38:03,947
And he advised me that
a woman had booked in
671
00:38:04,024 --> 00:38:05,598
by the name of Linda King.
672
00:38:06,910 --> 00:38:08,994
[narrator] Detective Ridgewa
sets up surveillance
673
00:38:08,996 --> 00:38:11,288
outside the motel.
674
00:38:11,290 --> 00:38:13,832
Hours later,
he observes Linda King
675
00:38:13,834 --> 00:38:15,625
heading towards
the parking lot
676
00:38:15,627 --> 00:38:17,711
where she gets
inside a van.
677
00:38:19,131 --> 00:38:24,092
And sure enough Mr. King
emerged from the motel room.
678
00:38:24,094 --> 00:38:28,305
And, uh, went straight
into the passenger side
of the van.
679
00:38:29,474 --> 00:38:31,850
I got out of the police unit,
680
00:38:31,852 --> 00:38:33,768
opened the passenger side
of the van
681
00:38:33,770 --> 00:38:38,231
and I advised Mr. King that
was under arrest for assault
682
00:38:46,074 --> 00:38:49,951
[Carol] Detective Ridgeway
phoned me,
683
00:38:49,995 --> 00:38:54,080
he said, "Hi, Carol.
We got him."
684
00:38:54,082 --> 00:38:56,124
"You did?" [laughs]
685
00:38:57,461 --> 00:38:58,793
[John] I felt elated.
686
00:38:59,546 --> 00:39:02,672
This was a 16-month
investigation
687
00:39:02,674 --> 00:39:04,924
and now we've come to this.
688
00:39:04,926 --> 00:39:06,259
That was a great feeling.
689
00:39:11,808 --> 00:39:14,059
[Carol]
There was a plea bargain.
690
00:39:14,936 --> 00:39:17,479
The crown attorney felt
691
00:39:17,522 --> 00:39:19,356
if we accepted it,
692
00:39:19,358 --> 00:39:21,316
Fred would get some
jail time.
693
00:39:22,486 --> 00:39:25,737
Our witnesses were escapees
694
00:39:25,739 --> 00:39:27,405
They had their fears.
695
00:39:27,407 --> 00:39:31,159
We were afraid we were
gonna lose them.
696
00:39:31,161 --> 00:39:35,330
The advice was that we shoul
accept the plea bargain.
697
00:39:36,291 --> 00:39:38,375
So we did.
698
00:39:38,410 --> 00:39:42,003
[narrator]
Prosecutors decide to drop
the sexual offence charges.
699
00:39:42,047 --> 00:39:44,714
Fred King pleads to
nine counts of assault.
700
00:39:44,791 --> 00:39:47,634
And on September 14,
2016,
701
00:39:47,710 --> 00:39:50,637
he is sentenced to
18 months in prison.
702
00:39:51,973 --> 00:39:55,475
When I heard Fred was
actually going to jail,
703
00:39:55,477 --> 00:39:58,978
I rejoiced. I was happy.
704
00:39:58,980 --> 00:40:01,064
But not totally satisfied.
705
00:40:02,275 --> 00:40:05,068
He received 18 months,
706
00:40:05,070 --> 00:40:08,822
but he only had to serve
12 months in jail
707
00:40:08,898 --> 00:40:11,366
and go on his merry way.
708
00:40:11,410 --> 00:40:13,993
I think Fred is still
running his cult
709
00:40:13,995 --> 00:40:17,997
because, remember,
this is God's will.
710
00:40:19,709 --> 00:40:21,918
[Daphne]
Neither Fred, nor Stan,
711
00:40:21,920 --> 00:40:24,003
was ever charged
with polygamy.
712
00:40:24,881 --> 00:40:28,508
There's only been
two cases in Canada
713
00:40:28,510 --> 00:40:30,552
in the last 100 years
714
00:40:30,554 --> 00:40:32,011
where polygamy
has been charged
715
00:40:32,013 --> 00:40:34,848
and people
have been convicted.
716
00:40:34,924 --> 00:40:37,100
[Tamming] Is justice done
in a criminal court sense?
717
00:40:37,177 --> 00:40:38,660
I don't know.
718
00:40:41,231 --> 00:40:44,232
What we hand out for sentences
for some of this stuff
719
00:40:44,276 --> 00:40:45,859
is pretty light.
720
00:40:45,861 --> 00:40:48,194
Was justice done
in the civil court?
721
00:40:48,196 --> 00:40:50,780
We inflicted a lot of
financial pain on him.
722
00:40:50,782 --> 00:40:52,699
I hope it was sufficient.
723
00:41:00,083 --> 00:41:03,960
[Carol] I've been able to he
other escapees as well.
724
00:41:06,339 --> 00:41:11,050
We were able to help
five others sue.
725
00:41:11,845 --> 00:41:14,679
And Fred was hit
pretty hard.
726
00:41:14,756 --> 00:41:20,810
Still, I'm hoping to bring
attention to polygamy
727
00:41:20,887 --> 00:41:23,813
will help the whole situatio
728
00:41:25,650 --> 00:41:28,526
Polygamy is
against the law.
729
00:41:28,528 --> 00:41:31,738
And it needs
to be enforced.
730
00:41:31,740 --> 00:41:34,949
[Daphne] I think the
generosity of Carol's spiri
731
00:41:34,951 --> 00:41:38,453
in terms of being able
to share her story
732
00:41:38,497 --> 00:41:42,123
and to not just
be a victim.
733
00:41:42,167 --> 00:41:45,710
She is a victim but
she's so much more than that
734
00:41:45,712 --> 00:41:47,086
And that's inspiring.