to his family in two years, didn't get along with any of his co-workers, and hadn't been paid in months. Feeling "super alone," on 10 February 2014 he left the FLDS by running off of the job site. He purchased a one-way bus ticket to Salt Lake City. Jeffs was the first of Warren Jeffs’ children to leave his father's church. Post-FLDS Jeffs had dismissed the accusations of sexual abuse leveled against his father, until three of his sisters left the church and told him what they had experienced. Jeffs said his father also had sexually abused him before he was six years old, but hadn't thought of it that way until after hearing his sisters' experiences. "Basically, he was like 'Don't ever do this,' then he touched me." Jeffs started a new life for himself, exploring the secular world as an adult. Discovering a love for Disney movies, Taylor Swift, and Friends. Jeffs was a member of the LGBT community. At the time of his death, his mother was in hiding and Roy had not seen her in six years. Death Jeffs died by suicide at his home in Salt Lake City. Funeral services were scheduled for 8 June 2019 at Larkin Sunset Gardens Mortuary in Sandy, Utah. His family established a Go Fund Me account to help pay for funeral costs. See also Current state of polygamy in the Latter Day Saint movement Mormon fundamentalism List of former Mormon fundamentalists Lost boys (Mormon fundamentalism) References External links Autobiographical talk given by Roy Jeffs at the Sunstone Salt Lake Symposium. Interview with Roy Jeffs, Alina Darger, and Buffy Jessop about disappearing holidays in the FLDS. 1992 births 2019 deaths Former members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints LGBT men LGBT people from Utah LGBT Latter Day Saints People from Salt Lake City People from Sandy, Utah People from Short Creek Community Sexual abuse victim advocates Suicides in Utah 2019 suicides