She was raised in a polygamous family, with two mothers and twenty-seven siblings, all members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS).
After many years as a vagabond in Middle and Southwest America, Jessop finally sought legal justice and was awarded $10,000 in a lawsuit against the State of Arizona for failing to protect her from the abuse she suffered.
Jessop finally settled in Galena, Kansas, where she soon met a man named Tim and created a family unit with him and their daughters, Shauna and Megan.
The ceremony, officiated by Warren Jeffs, would be the catalyst that turned Jessop into an advocate against child abuse in the FLDS community.
[4] Flora is the cousin-by-marriage of Carolyn Jessop, another former FLDS member who wrote Escape, an autobiographical account of her upbringing in the polygamist sect and later flight from that community.