Shortly before the release of her memoir, memoir, Cut Me Loose: Sin and Salvation After My Ultra-Orthodox Girlhood, Vincent's father, a prominent rabbi, put out a statement to the media. “In general, there’s definitely a strong feeling of suicidality amongst a sizable amount of people who leave ultra-Orthodoxy,” explained Leah Vincent, who was pushed out of the ultra Orthodox community and banished by her family for the sin of communicating with a boy at the age of sixteen. All of these things can cause deep depression, and worse. If they have children, those children are often lost in custody battles, or they turn against their parents, who they view as pariahs. Many have had no secular education, and find it difficult to find employment housing is a constant, crippling struggle. Their parents might refuse to see or communicate with them, and keep them from their family home. Individuals like Erenthal who leave the ultra-Orthodox community to pursue a secular life are frequently shunned and ostracized by their families and loved ones.
I remember crying myself to sleep for a long time after I ran away from home.” “One of the hardest things for me leaving the community was losing touch with every single person I’ve known and being completely alone in the world,” Erenthal told Gothamist recently.
She believes he sat Shiva for her-the Jewish ritual to mourn the dead that also applies to those who marry outside the faith. After she ran away, Erenthal's father disowned her. Erenthal's family, who had relocated from Jerusalem's ultra-Orthodox neighborhood of Mea Shearim to Borough Park, are Neturei Karta-one of the more cloistered ultra-Orthodox sects. When she was sixteen years old, Sara Erenthal ran away from home to escape an arranged marriage.
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