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We Got This Covered
We Got This Covered
Fred Onyango

16yo forced to marry Utah teen by a cult, but the ‘marriage’ didn’t last. But fate had other plans

Nineteen years after the end of Warren Jeffs’ cult, something good finally came out of it. A couple of teens who were born into the cult entered a fixed marriage, only to later reconnect after both escaped. Now they’re a shining example that there’s life after cultism.

In 2003, Angela Johnson was a 16-year-old teenager — a little rebellious toward authority, eager to learn more about life, and, much like everyone else at the time, a Britney Spears fan. But unlike most of her peers, she had to do all this in secret because she was in a cult — the notorious Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, to be exact.

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