Out of the Wilderness: Escaping My Father's Prison and My Journey to Forgiveness

Elishaba Doerksen was the oldest of fifteen children born to ex-hippies Robert and Kurina Hale- also known as Papa Pilgrim and Country Rose. Elishaba grew up in a dilapidated 341-square-foot log cabin in the Sangre de Cristo mountains of New Mexico, isolated from civilization by a fundamentalist father intent on keeping his large family cloistered from a godless world. When she was nineteen, Papa Pilgrim began taking liberties with Elishaba in unimaginable ways and beating her-and her sibli...