Polygamy has been in the news quite a bit since last month, when the state of Texas took more than 400 children into custody after hearing allegations of abuse within the tight-knit religious community known as the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS).

This sect is a small offshoot of the mainstream Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS); that's the one with the missionaries on bicycles, and Mitt Romney, and Donny Osmond, and Gladys Knight. (It's true!) The FLDS offshoot started in the early 1900s, when the LDS Church stopped practicing polygamy. Some Mormons thought their church had gone astray, wanted to continue having multiple wives -- and voila, FLDS.

I told you that so I could tell you this: Warren Jeffs, the former leader of the FLDS Church, is currently in prison for his involvement in marrying underage girls to older men, and the woman whose testimony put him there is about to have her story turned into a movie. Her name is Elissa Wall, and her book, Stolen Innocence, was published two weeks ago and is already on the New York Times bestseller list. In it, she describes growing up in the FLDS society, being forced (by Warren Jeffs) to marry her first cousin when she was only 14, and how she eventually escaped the group. Even knowing only those details you can tell it must be a fascinating and harrowing story.

According to Variety, Sharp Independent and Killer Films have negotiated the film rights and will work with Elissa Wall to find the right writer and director to adapt it. The producers, Jeffrey Sharp and Christine Vachon, previously collaborated on another woman-in-peril story, Boys Don't Cry, as well as A Home at the End of the World. No word yet on a time frame for the Stolen Innocence adaptation, but we'll keep you posted.