and that s something i ll never forget. reporter: it was exactly what rebecca feared when she saw those beds in the temple. not only had warren been the perpetrator and the predator on these young girls, but he had in a very twisted sense taken the thought, the idea, and called it holy. reporter: warren jeffs and nine other members of the flds were indicted on a variety of sexual assault charges involving underage girls. the prophet, who had once been accountable to no one, would again have to answer in court, this time facing life in prison. and once again the woman he once warned would be destroyed in the flesh would be the star witness against him. and if the stakes weren t high enough, they were about to go up. in 2010, just before his texas trial was to start back in utah,
wouldn t speak to her. her father, too. believed the teachers of the flds, though he no longer believed warren jeffs was the prophet. the woman once known as sister becky wrote a book about her experiences calling the witness wore red. she s helped counsel former flds members. the power of words means breaking your silence. to be silent is to be enslaved. and there s this amazing thing called choice and that is freedom. reporter: and sometimes when she is playing her violin one of those classic hymns she learned when practicing the work, she thinks about her days in the flds, thinks about that moment when warren jeffs demanded her obedience. the moment he threatened he would break her. he didn t break you. you broke him. i didn t set out to break him. i think he broke himself. but he most certainly did not
experience, because it gave me a very clear understanding that there is a possibility that i feel okay. seeing my family again after the pain of them leaving, interesting lena, it was just joy. there is no judgment, there was no how dare you. i was so happy to see them again. and to realize that i love them no matter what the religion sat, or warren, for my teachings told me. but back in the correct, things were not going okay for warren jeff s, he was suddenly facing lawsuits, two of them. attorney read park was hired by the flds, that we no longer represents them. one was called the lost boy s case, the boys claim to have been thrown out of the community, and then the other one was a young man who alleged that he had been sexually assaulted by one at savoie.
profit and self, profit rulon jeffs. rebecca was his 19th wife. in the flds his age doesn t matter, it s his standing with the profit, how pure, or how obedient, how honorable he is. and in my case, this faithful man was profit him self. rebecca s profit has told us that she believed he wanted to marry him. but oh no rebecca said, it was more like a horror. i did not want to marry him. he was 85, and i was 19. they held the wedding in the living room of rwanda s sprawling house, september 17th 1985. i just resign myself to the fact that that was my faith. just to surrender to it. this is my prince charming this 85-year-old man. i, my prince charming. i just remember walking in and feeling like, just stand up and
former flds attorney rod parker. what the state did was in traumatizing that entire community and all those children, that was wrong. what texas should have done is taken a more targeted approach, not just sweep up everybody. we didn t particularly enjoy it either. nobody likes taking a child out of his environment. even in the worst of circumstances. but the law s the law and the courts spoke and said, these kids are in danger and so we had to do what we had to do. reporter: mind you, there was still no sign of the mysterious sarah barlow whose call had prompted the raid and all that followed. rangers did, however, find files of birth records. but untangling the web of names and bloodlines was overwhelming, if not impossible. you were essentially learning an entire network or community of people. and they all had similar last