[Announcer:] Tonight on CNN PRESENTS. "Addicted at Birth."
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[Announcer:] America's pain pill epidemic. It's the youngest generation.
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[Announcer:] "Beasts of War."
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[Announcer:] A once top-secret military program that's enlisting animals to protect the country. But first, inside a polygamous sect.
[Dan Moskaluk, Royal Canadian Mounted Police:] We're dealing with the exploitation of children of young girls for sexual purposes.
[Announcer:] Gary Tuchman takes you where most people never go. Exposing "Polygamy's Dirty Secrets."
[Gary Tuchman, Cnn Presents:] The scenery is spectacular and the polygamist families who live here along the Utah-Arizona border have been able to live their lives with little interference from the outside world for generations. Stepping into their world is both jarring and surreal. [On Camera] How many brothers and sisters do you have in all?
[Unidentified Female:] I have 18.
[Tuchman:] And Albert, how many brothers and sisters do you have?
[Unidentified Male:] Twenty-two.
[Unidentified Female:] I am the oldest of 32.
[Tuchman:] These are not members of the Salt Lake City- Based Mormon Church known as the Church of Latter Day Saints. They belong instead to a splinter group who believe in polygamy and call themselves the Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints, or
[Flds:] Mr. Jeffs, do you think you can win this case? [Voice-over] The spiritual leader, Warren Jeffs, has been jailed now for nearly five years and faces trial on three charges including aggravated sexual assault on a child, charges to which he's pled not guilty. [On Camera] The people of the FLDS are convinced that there is nobody on earth closer to god than warren Jeffs. They believe that Jeffs, even behind bars, is the mouthpiece of god, that words he utters are divinely inspired. Law enforcement authorities have long been worried what would happy if Jeffs told his followers to do something violent and dangerous.
[Sam Brower, Private Investigator:] I've never seen it like this before. I've been here for seven years. I've never seen things so unstable and so lawless. I consider this the most lawless town in the country.
[Tuchman:] Sam Brower is a private investigator and writer who's been following the polygamous sect closely for nearly a decade and who's written a book about the FLDS called "Prophet's Prey." [On Camera] Do you think there are comparisons to be made like to the Taliban or the mafia?
[Brower:] Absolutely. I mean even the Utah attorney general has stated that the FLDS in this community is run Taliban-style and that's really all the FLDS church is, in my opinion, is an organized crime family.
[Tuchman:] Attorneys for the break-away sect say that kind of assertion is nonsense, that the polygamist leaders and their followers who live here simply want to be left alone to practice their religion the way they see fit. But real violence, according to some neighbors, has crept into the community. This burned down patch of grass in the town of Colorado City, Arizona, is evidence of what authorities say is a very disturbing example. Arizona state investigators say FLDS leaders burned dozens of books here, rather than let an open library be built, because they believe those books were collected by infidels.
[Stefanie Colgrove, Library Organizer:] They burnt things that didn't belong to them. And they broke and entered the building.
[Tuchman:] Former FLDS member Stefanie Colgrove says she worked for more than two years to collect books for the library, a library independent of the church. [On Camera] And what do they do with the books?
[Colgrove:] They hauled them out of the building.
[Tuchman:] Then what did they do with them?
[Colgrove:] We assumed that they were burnt. We saw a massive bonfire and assumed all of this was on the pile because we saw books in the burning pile.
[Tuchman:] This is the remnants of one of the charred books. Looks like a medical textbook. [Voice-over] County investigators say the local police in Colorado City are all members of the FLDS and have ignored the arson. Those local police have not returned our calls. It's the county authorities who have worked to crack down on the church. [On Camera] And so you're with the county and they're the local police, and normally 99.9 percent of the time, police all work together. You don't work with these guys, do you?
[Gary Engels, Mohave County  District Attorney's Office:] Not at all. I can't even get them to talk to me most of the time.
[Tuchman:] That's because, according to Mohave County chief investigator Gary Engels, police here obey the religious leaders first, civilian leaders second. [On Camera] In your eyes, is their allegiance more to the Constitution of the United States or to Warren Jeffs, their prophet?
[Engels:] I believe that their allegiance is probably more to the church. I know they are required to swear allegiance to Warren in one of their church meetings here not to long ago.
[Tuchman:] Some say if you do not side with Warren Jeffs, there can be trouble. [On Camera] So are you afraid for your safety sometimes?
[Isaac Wyler, Warren Jeffs Opponent:] Well, yes, sometimes you get a little worried. They've killed some of my animals.
[Tuchman:] Isaac Wyler has lived here for years, and until he split from Warren Jeffs, life was more or less tranquil. Not now.
[Wyler:] At one time there was, like, six dead cats in my window wells. They're thrown in there. A lot of times you go out and there'll be a dead cat or dead pigeon or dead duck or something.
[Tuchman:] You feel that's a threat to you, though? To intimidate you?
[Wyler:] Yes, definitely for intimidation. But I don't intimidate that easy.
[Tuchman:] Attorneys for the FLDS did not return calls for comment on either the book burning or the alleged intimidation.
[Warren Jeffs, Flds Leader:] Do not video our
[Tuchman:] During my frequent reporting trips to Colorado City, we were often made to feel unwelcome.
[Unidentified Male:] No cameras allowed here. Sorry, this is private property.
[Tuchman:] And there's still a great deal of allegiance to the leader who's long been in jail. But that may be changing. Just ahead, a man who was once one of Warren Jeffs' most loyal followers now tells a very different story.
[Willie E. Jessop, Warren Jeffs Opponent:] He in his own words has admitted to what he is, and he said he's a very wicked man and he confessed to doing some very terrible things.