In 1998, Laura Cowan and her kids were held captive inside a garage with no running water, heat or a bathroom in California after being manipulated into marrying a child abuser and polygamist named Mansa Musa Muhummed.
“When I was locked up in that garage, I said, ‘Lord if my children and I survive this I dedicate my life helping others, so they don’t go through what we went through,’” Cowan said.