Keep Sweet on Netflix: Did the Polygamist Guru Marry His Own Mother?

Incredible and yet very real story. Netflix watches Warren Jeffs’s case in its documentary series Keep Sweet: Pray and be ues. This American has for several years led the Fundamentalist Church of The Last Day Saints of Jesus Christ, an isolated Mormon community in Utah.

At the head of this movement it had a physical and psychological impact on its members, but mainly on women. To enter heaven, a man must be married to at least three wives. Warren Jeffs had 78. Twenty-four of them were minors.

In the 4-episode documentary available on the platform, the most curious will discover this disgusting case that shook America in the early 2000s. The series is a wealth of information and some of them are surprising.

Keep it sweet In particular, he explains that Warren Jeffs led the movement after the death of his father, Rollon Jeffs. In addition to taking control of society, he also married his parents’s wives. What about your own mother, Marilyn Stead?

Cases of incest within the fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints abound. The guru did not marry his biological mother, but his father’s 29 ex-wives – who are, in theory, his stepmother.

Among his many victims were 56 sisters. In 2006, Warren Jeffs was charged with rape and complicity in pedophilia. When he escaped, he hit the FBI wanted list. He was finally arrested in 2007 and sentenced to life in prison in 2011. Even beyond the bars, the guru continues to enjoy his power over his followers. Many of them still visit him.

Be sweet: Pray and be silent Available on Netflix.