Woman describes life in polygamous sect.

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Woman describes life in polygamous sect.

LAS VEGAS (UPI) -- A woman who grew up in the Utah-based polygamous sect headed by Warren Jeffs tells CNN that she fled 20 years ago to escape a polygamous marriage.

Sara Hammon said that her father, who had 19 wives and 75 children, molested her for years -- but he could not remember her name.

Hammon grew up in the twin towns of Hilldale, Utah, and Colorado City, Ariz., where most members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-Day Saints live. The sect split from the Mormons more than a century ago.

"Probably the worst part of the whole theology," she said, "is the treatment of women and teaching women that they are not equal to men."

Hammon told CNN that she thinks too much attention is paid to Jeffs, now on trial for arranging the marriage of a 14-year-old girl to a cousin.

"Warren Jeffs is just a person to focus on," she said. "This system is a well-oiled machine, there's always going to be somebody to step up and take his place. What he has done is terrible ... but I know a lot of other men who were out there and in charge who did some pretty terrible things too."
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