![]() ![]() Like this year’s Going Clear, another in-depth exploration of the point at which a religion sustained by the will of a single man lapses into the abuses of cult, Prophet’s Prey is a case study covering untold years of sexual, mental, and physical abuse largely protected by the American right to the free demonstration of religious belief. ![]() Where the urge, somewhat understandably, has long been to paint Jeffs’ exploits as a lurid tabloid story of fringe religious sects gone horribly awry, Prophet’s Prey focuses on what it must : on Jeffs, on the things he’s done, and on the continuous revelations that have kept his name in the news, time and again.Īmy Berg, who’s spent much of the past decade analyzing abused youth and the social systems that wrong them from the legal ( West of Memphis ) to the Catholic Church ( Deliver Us From Evil ), focuses here on the (eerily) still-active FLDS. Prophet’s Prey is hardly the first documentary to chronicle the many sins committed by former Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS) leader Warren Jeffs, but it’s among the most comprehensive and disturbing. ![]()
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