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A native of Northern California, Trent Nelson is currently Chief Photographer at The Salt Lake Tribune. He has covered three Olympics, a pair of NBA Finals, and the Final Four for the Tribune, and since 2005 has traveled throughout North America covering polygamy. Assignments for the Tribune have taken him across the United States, Africa, Europe and Central America.

His work has won a number of awards including three Utah News Photographer of the Year titles as well as the Worst Photo of the Year Award from the Utah News Photographers Association.

His 2003 composite photograph of Utah Jazz point guard John Stockton was published over six pages in Sports Illustrated, the largest photograph in the history of the magazine.

In 1985 Trent was a founding member of the Bay Area hardcore punk band Rabid Lassie and self-published zines from 1985-1996.

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- Anna, Betty’s brain may have been PHYSICALLY re-wired by the brainwashing of that system – not just emotionally. And she’s either the oldest or second oldest of Carolyn’s children at the time of the Escape. The signficance is that the “cement” of Betty’s brain is the most “set” in the FLDS ways. The younger kids were still malleable in the head and they were gotten out of this “church” before...
  — Encer on Meeting Betty Jessop
- Betty should be proud to have Carolyn for a mother. I have read the Escape book. She is a very strong woman and has risked so much her children would have a better life. And yet Betty feels offended by that book. I don’t get it. However, being the favorite child of Merilin Jessop might have had its perks, she had a hard time in high school, but I mean a lot of kids have a hard time in high school.
  — Anna on Meeting Betty Jessop
- This chick is crazy. I really like her
  — Kim Rounkles on
- Kind of corny, but this song by the New Radicals in the late 90s just coincidentally describes the emotions of the young adults on those compounds. “You Get what You give” on the appropriately titled Album “Maybe You’ve Been Brainwashed Too”! The first verse gives me the chills in retrospect, after reading both the Wall and Jessop accounts: Wake up kids We’ve got the dreamers disease Age 14 They got you down on your knees So...
  — Encer on Meeting Betty Jessop
- I’m confused. I thought that women in polygamist families were taught from an early age to keep emotions to a minimum. I see an awful lot of smiling and laughing in those pictures. Or is that staged or just done for the cameras brought in by non-polygamists? Is it certain that Betty has not yet been married off? She really goofed big time by returning to the FLDS! She had an opportunity to get out when her mother Carolyn took her, and her 7 siblings and...
  — Lisa on Meeting Betty Jessop

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