Destroying Their God: How I Fought My Evil Half-Brother to Save My Children

In 1991 Wallace Jeffs was coerced to become an FLDS polygamist. In 2011 Wallace rebelled against the sect and the FBI helped him reclaim his kidnapped children.Then an accident put Wallace into a forty-five-day coma. Growing up as half-brother to future Fundamentalist Latter-Day Saint prophet Warren Jeffs Wallace tried to follow FLDS teachings. After he built a successful business the church required him to marry a second wife. Wallace fathered twenty children but he never felt comfortable with polygamy or many other FLDS beliefs.As his prophet-brother increasingly manipulated him Wallace started hearing about FLDS atrocities. On the day the FBI arrested Warren Jeffs for child rape the prophet was en route to reclaim Wallaces second wife for himself. Wallace defied the prophet and soon ended up in a coma. Though Wallace feared FLDS sabotage caused his car crash he kept fighting the sect.With todays movement against male abusers Wallaces story reminds us that power and position dont corrupt all men. In 2018 Wallace found resolution by marrying an LDS woman in the Salt Lake Temple. At the same time he renews our concern for the thousands who still live under FLDS control including some of Wallaces own children.