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Where Is Briell Decker Now After Escaping the FLDS Chugrch?

Where is Briell Decker now? The former spouse of FLDS church founder Warren Jeffs is in the highlight with Discovery's 'Prisoner of the Prophet.'

Chris Barilla - Author

Content caution: This article incorporates transient mentions of sexual abuse.

It goes with out saying that Briell Decker experienced some unspeakable trauma all through her time affiliated with the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. As a wife of Warren Jeffs, president of the religion and noted intercourse culprit, Briell was once at the middle of one among America's most famous polygamous sects and witnessed life-altering horrors at Jeffs's hand.

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Thankfully, the ones days have come to an end for Briell, and she or he leads quite a unique life at the present time. With that being mentioned, where is Briell now? Keep reading to find out.

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Where is Briell Decker now?

It goes without announcing that Briell has achieved a total one hundred eighty along with her existence since escaping from the FLDS church. According to her website, she used to be made to be Jeffs's sixty fifth wife at just 18 years previous. After enduring years of torment in that precarious scenario, Briell controlled to escape by way of climbing out of a window and working barefoot till she reached protection.

Her break out was once the get started of a brand new existence, as Briell applied and was granted ownership of Jeffs's large Colorado City home where she once lived as his wife. Alongside the Phoenix Dream Center, Briell reimagined the assets as a refuge heart — now known as Short Creek Dream Center — for other people escaping the FLDS church.

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Per her site bio, Briell works as an "activist and a Certified Peer Support Specialist From Mental Health America of Utah. She is happy, healthy, and saving hundreds of women through her Dream Center." She works as a peer counselor at the Short Creek Dream Center as of late.

Briell is married to her husband, Steven, and resides in Hildale, Utah.

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Briell's story is being spotlighted on 'Prisoner of the Prophet.'

Briell's transformation from sufferer of Jeffs and the FLDS church to staunch advocate operating against those forces is no doubt one for the history books. As such, her exceptional story has been captured by way of Discovery Plus, who created Prisoner of the Prophet, a new documentary series that, consistent with their website, "details her time living — and surviving — in the FLDS Church. From being imprisoned to witnessing the abuse of young brides, Briell's story exposes the darkest secrets of the polygamist cult."

Viewers can be expecting a candid retelling of Briell's life in the FLDS church, together with emotional testimony about Jeffs's movements as well as how Briell courageously escaped and became her existence round for the better. The new collection is to be had to movement on Discovery Plus now.

If you wish to have toughen, call the National Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-656-4673 or visit RAINN.org to talk on-line one-on-one with a strengthen specialist at any time.

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