Sarah Kellen Opening Statements
https://oversight.house.gov/?s=Sarah+Kellen+ The Oversight commity released Sarah Kellens Opening Statements..."I was raised in a religious cult of Jehovah’s Witnesses in a small community in North Carolina, in a faith where women did not speak unless spoken to. We were not allowed to question men; in fact, we were required to submit to and obey men. We were discouraged from thinking for ourselves. At the age of 13, an 18 year old man began pursuing me. At the time, I was flattered. I thought I was falling in love with him. Only now do I understand what was happening. I was being groomed. I dropped out of high school at the age of 15 to prepare to marry this man, which I did at the age of 17. To me, I had no other choice. It was the only way to reconcile the fact that we were having sx outside of wedlock, a grave sin in the eyes of Jehovah. At the time, I thought it was love. Only much much later did I come to undrtstand what happened to me was wrong. My husband took me to Hawaii, thousands of miles from family and friends."