The lawsuit describes a patriarchal group and a doctrine known as 'The Law of One Above Another.'
The lawsuit describes a patriarchal group and a doctrine known as "The Law of One Above Another," in which everyone has a rank in the group's hierarchy. Women and girls, after they're married, submit to their husbands and men answer to higher-ranked men.
But women who are disobedient and fail to bear children - including because they miscarry - face ostracism, the lawsuit alleges. Five of the women suing alleged they were coerced into marriage as juveniles and raped by their husbands; three others including Amanda Grant, who alleges that she endured years of sexual abuse by a half brother as a child, said they fled to escape such a fate. Grant would later appear on the television series "Escaping Polygamy." The Associated Press generally does not name people who say they have been sexually assaulted unless they come forward publicly.
The lone man suing said three Order men raped him when he was 16 or 17 and that when he left the group and announced he was gay, was tracked down and severely beaten by a group of boys "acting at the direction of the Order," the lawsuit alleges.John Gustafson, a representative of the Davis County Cooperative Society, an affiliate of the Kingston Group, disputed the lawsuit's claims Friday.
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