Former members of a polygamous cult have revealed shocking truths about the depths of incest in their family life.
YouTube host Amanda Rae spoke with Joe Robinsonwhose parents were half-siblings, shared the incredible truth about growing up as members of the Kingston Group, known as The Order.
The Kingston Group, a Mormon sect whose members live in Salt Lake City, Utah, practices polygamy, and Joe revealed that members underwent a blood test to see which relatives they could marry and procreate with.
The couple has different parents, but similar experiences, as both parents have multiple wives.
YouTube host Amanda Rae spoke with Joe Robinson, whose parents were half-siblings.
The couple grew up as members of the Kingston Group, an incestuous Mormon sect whose members live in Salt Lake City, Utah. The cult practices polygamy.
The couple said one of the most frequently asked questions was about incest and deformities, something that was particularly prevalent in Joe’s family, as his parents were half-siblings and his father also married two of his mother’s sisters. .
“I saw that children were born without ears and things like that, but it was a little strange that I really liked to see [more severe deformities]’ shared Amanda, who also grew up in the sect.
“I feel like a lot of people are attractive.”
Joe added that all members of his family, under patriarch Daniel, who had 14 wives and 157 children, underwent a blood test to see which members of the extended family they could marry.
“I was at my mom’s house, everyone in line got a blood test and then they left,” Joe recalled.
‘[We were] like “why are you doing this?” [and they said] “So we can see who you can marry,” she said, adding that she took a test when she was “very young,” around 10 years old.
“They were just open about it.”
Amanda said she didn’t remember getting tested and wasn’t sure if it was because she was possibly too young, but she remembered her friends getting tested.
Joe added that all members of his family, under patriarch Daniel, who had 14 wives and 157 children, underwent a blood test to see which members of the extended family could marry each other.
While Joe remembered having a blood test, Amanda said she didn’t remember doing it and wasn’t sure if it was because she was possibly too young.
“I remember growing up in the Order and finding out that all my friends were getting tested and I thought something was happening to you guys,” he said.
Amanda added that, as far as she knew, her parents were not related.
Joe left the Order at the age of 20 after being expelled from the Kingston Group for questioning authority and asking why they were negligently treating his mother’s cancer, who passed away just before he left.
He said he grew up knowing his parents were brothers, but he was raised thinking it wasn’t strange, although he questioned it.
‘My dad would do it [hear] There are rumors that we think is strange,” Joe recalled.
“But then he likes to arrange a meeting, [and he’d say] As if this is always going to happen, you guys should stop making fun of it.
‘You know it’s like defending yourself because you married a brother.
Cult leader John Daniel Kingston (front and center), known as Daniel, had 14 wives and 157 children.
“My mother has two other sisters that he also married; they were all from the same family.”
Joe added that another unusual (and unfortunate) byproduct of the cult was that you could never really fall in love with someone, since they were related.
“There was a person I liked in the Order, of course she was my cousin,” he told Amanda.
And he added: “Because everyone you know is someone with which you are related.
“But look at the same thing, I was in love and I didn’t know it was related to them.”
Amanda said she witnessed strange marriages between related people, but felt it had to be “hush.”
‘B“Because my dad was doing it, the leader was doing it,” he explained. ‘Are you really going to question the leaders and then have this bad stamp on your name?’
Amanda, now 28, left the Order in 2013, becoming her father Paul’s first child to leave the sect.