Flashermac Posted April 5, 2008 Report Share Posted April 5, 2008 EL DORADO, Texas - Child welfare officials following up on an abuse complaint took custody of 18 girls Friday who lived at a secretive West Texas religious retreat built by polygamist leader Warren Jeffs. A total of 52 girls, ages 6 months to 17 years, were bused away on Friday to be interviewed, but only 18 were immediately taken into state custody, said Texas Child Protective Services spokeswoman Marleigh Meisner. No arrests had been made. Meisner said welfare officials were looking for foster homes for the girls, most of whom have rarely been outside the insular world of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. They were being housed for now at a civic center, she said. "We're dealing with children that aren't accustomed to the outside world, so we're trying to be very sensitive to their needs," Meisner said. Authorities had interviewed about half the girls since arriving Thursday evening at the remote compound with law enforcers, she said. Interviews were expected to continue over the weekend. The investigation began with a call alleging physical abuse of a 16-year-old girl living there, Meisner said. On Friday afternoon, the Department of Public Safety officials began executing a search warrant. The warrant seeks records dealing with the birth of children to a 16-year-old and any records listing a marriage between a 50-year-old man and the girl, according to the San Angelo Standard-Times, which cited court records released late Friday in Tom Green County. Prosecutors in Tom Green, a larger county north of Eldorado, were handling the case. Link Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bangkoktraveler Posted April 6, 2008 Report Share Posted April 6, 2008 Sounds like that part of Texas is under the umbrella of weird Christians. When is it a right of the State to take away the children of people who believe in a god that is different then what they believe in? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rogueyam Posted April 6, 2008 Report Share Posted April 6, 2008 When is it a right of the State to take away the children of people who believe in a god that is different then what they believe in? The State has a right to take children from parents who commit crimes against those children. I'm just glad they accomplished this (so far) without anyone getting hurt. When leftist heroes Bill Clinton and Janet Reno undertook a similar operation some years back they burned the miscreants' home to the ground with the families inside resulting in the deaths of 80 Americans, many of whom were children. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted April 6, 2008 Author Report Share Posted April 6, 2008 I'd also had the thought they were lucky Janet Reno isn't running the show any more. The entire Branch Dravidian complex has been levelled and all signs it was ever there destroyed. And yet you still trust the federal government??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted April 6, 2008 Author Report Share Posted April 6, 2008 << A search warrant authorized troopers to enter the retreat, run by the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. They are looking for evidence of a marriage between the girl and a 50-year-old man. Court documents the girl had a baby eight months ago, when she was 15. >> << The whereabouts of the 16-year-old mother who sparked the investigation are unknown, Meisner said. State troopers who raided the religious retreat were looking for the girl, her baby girl and 50-year-old Dale Barlow. Under Texas law, girls younger than 16 cannot marry, even with parental approval. >> << The FLDS has been led by Warren Jeffs since his father died in 2002. In November, Jeffs was sentenced to two consecutive sentences of five years to life in prison in Utah for being an accomplice to the rape of a 14-year-old girl who was wed to her cousin in an arranged marriage in 2001. >> Reason enough? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Julian2 Posted April 6, 2008 Report Share Posted April 6, 2008 All it is, is using religion to justify having sex with children. The Bibles full of old guys having multiple wives and hand maidens and marrying young girls. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted April 6, 2008 Author Report Share Posted April 6, 2008 Still happens in the Islamic world. But polygamy and kiddie fiddling have been banned in the West for centuries. Even the Mormons themselves had to give it up in 1890. Why don't these guys just become Muslims and move to the Middle East? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kamui Posted April 6, 2008 Report Share Posted April 6, 2008 Why don't these guys just become Muslims and move to the Middle East? Maybe because the Muslims have a much higher code of honour in regard to their families than these crazy Mormons? The men of the sects are paedophiles. The leaders brainwash the members, the women have no rights and the kids are abused since decades. I am following the story since some time and what they do with the girls is terrible, but many boys have a terrible life as well. There are reports that some boys where raped and for to have enough young girls available for the elder males they kicked many young boys out of their sect (so called lost boys) . They just ordered them to leave the compounded and asked them never to return - without any place to go, without any money, without any valid education, without any knowledge about the outside world. All these facts were known to the authorities since many years, but the sect had influencial supporters (law enforcement, lawmakers, e.g.) in the surrounding counties and obviously at state level as well. In 2003, Under the Banner of Heaven was published, a book written by Jon Krakauer, documenting the history of both the LDS church and its spin-off sects, focusing largely on the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. The book describes illegal activity in the (Fundamentalist) Church, mainly polygyny and statutory rape. Wikipedia It was only when the the sect leader was put on the FBI's Most Wanted list the spell was broken. IMHO this sect should be destroyed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elef Posted April 6, 2008 Report Share Posted April 6, 2008 Mormons offically gave up polygamy but never really stopped it. According to the bible it's not incest if a father has sex with the daugher(s). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kamui Posted April 6, 2008 Report Share Posted April 6, 2008 Mormons offically gave up polygamy but never really stopped it. According to the bible it's not incest if a father has sex with the daugher(s). Critics say that incest is inescapable in this sect, since there is shortage of wifes - The jailed head of the church has 60-75 wifes and a male member needs to have at least three wifes - and the members marry within a small, closed community. There is a proof for it actually: The Colorado City/Hildale area has the world's highest incidence of fumarase deficiency, an extremely rare genetic condition which causes severe mental retardation. Geneticists attribute this to the prevalence of cousin marriage between descendants of two of the town's founders, Joseph Smith Jessup and John Yeates Barlow; one local historian reports that 75â??80 percent of the double-communities' roughly 10,000 inhabitants are descended from one or both of these men. Wikipedia Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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