Flora Jessop
Author of Church of Lies
About the Author
Image credit: Flora Jessop
Works by Flora Jessop
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Common Knowledge
- Legal name
- Jessop, Flora Mae
- Birthdate
- 1969-06-12
- Gender
- female
- Nationality
- USA
- Places of residence
- Colorado City, Arizona, USA (birth & childhood)
Hildale, Colorado, USA (birth)
Phoenix, Arizona, USA - Education
- G.E.D.
- Occupations
- topless dancer
activist - Relationships
- Jessop, Fred (Flora's uncle)
Jessop, Carolyn (Flora's cousin by marriage) - Organizations
- Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints
Help the Child Brides
Child Protection Project - Agent
- Craig Wiley
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Cults (1)
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Statistics
- Works
- 1
- Members
- 181
- Popularity
- #119,336
- Rating
- 3.7
- Reviews
- 10
- ISBNs
- 8
I had a really, really hard time liking Flora Jessop, though naturally I felt sympathy for what she went through. But she's awfully big on martyrdom, the "poor me" syndrome (which I can't get, because I can't imagine what she went through), but she also constantly praises herself for how awesome she is, even when she's doing drugs and stripping. I understand that, too - lack of self confidence usually turns into a "look at me, look at how great I am!"
The big thing that really bugged me about the whole book, and made me doubt a lot of what Flora said, was the one line she devotes to quitting drugs - she basically just says "I decided to stop, so I did". I've never done drugs, never even smoked a cigarette, but I've never heard of anyone quitting drugs by just deciding to. You're telling me she never once looked back? She never once struggled with her addiction? I get that her drug abuse wasn't the story here - saving the kids from abuse is - but it really bugged me that she just casually mentions quitting drugs & never mentions it again. What else was she over simplifying?
She also makes out that she's the only person ever who tries to rescue the kids and she's the only one ever in the whole world who could possibly actually rescue a child - and that's just not true. She likes to paint CPS as the bad guys, but that's discrimination - claiming everyone who works there is a bad guy is as bad as any other discrimination/racism/etc. CPS is trying to work within the laws of our country - for better or for worse. I'm not saying that they are actually helping the kids - clearly, they aren't - but they are trying to follow the law, and that doesn't make someone working for CPS as evil, just someone who's trying to follow the law.… (more)