I knew I wanted to obey and submit because I didn't want to get in trouble, But I didn't fully grasp for the rest of my life what that meant.
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And then he put the rings on our hands to be worn on our ring fingers. Doesn't fit anymore. This is all goes on now.
It doesn't even pass your second knuckle now.
Nope, so tiny. Yeah, I was just a kid.
In the early two thousands in rural Minnesota, Lindsay became one of the maidens of River Road Fellowship. She was thirteen years old. A ritualistic ceremony married her and nine other girls to their adult leader, and for years they all endured a secret life of physical and mental abuse. It all happened in their community of a hunh hundred and fifty people, believers on a commune who saw their leader as an apostle, like God in the flesh. They followed his command for decades.
Why did I think that way? Why did I allow myself to get so sucked in by this man and thinking to the point that if I died for him, that would be the greatest honor.
I don't care what happens when Jesus Christ comes back, whatever happens to me, it cannot possibly be worse than this.
But in twenty fourteen, Lindsay and a friend, the youngest Maidens, made the daring decision to escape. They sparked an international man hunt for the cult leader who had controlled their world for.
All those years. You know, he was the predator and I was the prey, and then he became the prey. Listened to The Turning River Road starting on July eighth on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts