Polygamy, pedophilia and consanguinity: Just plain wrong no matter where you find it.
A modern day harem at the "Yearning For Zion" ranch. Sounds like they were yearning for young girls to me.
(On topic only because of the polygamous and consanguineous marriage practices of many Islamists. They like 'em young, too sometimes.)
This raid arose from a call to a family help center last week from a 16-year-old girl, who said she was the mother of an eight-month-old baby and pregnant with a second child. The girl has not been found/or is currently in custody but refusing to identify herself out of fear. She attempted to recant her statement (to the same crisis center in a phone call, I presume although the article is unclear on that point.) In addition, claims are now being made that Texas authorities named the wrong man in search and arrest warrants used to enter the Ranch. I hope this doesn't jeopardize the legality of the whole shebang.
(On topic only because of the polygamous and consanguineous marriage practices of many Islamists. They like 'em young, too sometimes.)
This raid arose from a call to a family help center last week from a 16-year-old girl, who said she was the mother of an eight-month-old baby and pregnant with a second child. The girl has not been found/or is currently in custody but refusing to identify herself out of fear. She attempted to recant her statement (to the same crisis center in a phone call, I presume although the article is unclear on that point.) In addition, claims are now being made that Texas authorities named the wrong man in search and arrest warrants used to enter the Ranch. I hope this doesn't jeopardize the legality of the whole shebang.
You will too when you read how crazy bad it was there.
Many of the teenage girls were pregnant and some already had babies. Few of the 416 youngsters brought out of the sect in the Texas desert knew their full names, their birth dates or could even identify their own mothers. Some had been beaten so badly they suffered broken bones and younger girls, some as young as 12 and 13, had been expected to have sex with much older men.
Reverend Jeffs was a busy man. And so was his trusty sidekick.
Ominously, a disproportionate number of the children, ranging in age from toddlers to 17-year-olds, had the surname Jeffs, as in Warren Jeffs, the leader and self-styled prophet of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, rumoured to have more than 80 wives and 250 children...She added that mothers did not appear to know the full names of many of the children. Two surnames – Jeffs and Jessop, the name of compound leader Merrill Jessop – came up repeatedly when officials were checking identities.
Many of the teenage girls were pregnant and some already had babies. Few of the 416 youngsters brought out of the sect in the Texas desert knew their full names, their birth dates or could even identify their own mothers. Some had been beaten so badly they suffered broken bones and younger girls, some as young as 12 and 13, had been expected to have sex with much older men.
Reverend Jeffs was a busy man. And so was his trusty sidekick.
Ominously, a disproportionate number of the children, ranging in age from toddlers to 17-year-olds, had the surname Jeffs, as in Warren Jeffs, the leader and self-styled prophet of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, rumoured to have more than 80 wives and 250 children...She added that mothers did not appear to know the full names of many of the children. Two surnames – Jeffs and Jessop, the name of compound leader Merrill Jessop – came up repeatedly when officials were checking identities.
Like all good pedophiles, the cult groomed (and abused) the children.
Still wearing their hand-sewn ankle-length pioneer dresses, the women and girls were hesitant in talking to officials after years and sometimes generations spent cloistered in the male-dominated sect. But child welfare officials allege in court documents released yesterday that the 1,700-acre compound was rife with sexual abuse, with girls being "spiritually married" and "conditioned to expect and accept sexual activity with adult men at the ranch" as soon as they reach puberty and boys groomed to perpetuate the cycle...Children living in the self-contained ranch were deprived of food and forced to sit in closed cupboards as a form of discipline, said the court documents.
The men from the Yearning for Zion ranch remain in FBI custody. DNA tests are rumored to be next. More photos of the Yearning For Zion ranch can be seen at this link.
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The men from the Yearning for Zion ranch remain in FBI custody. DNA tests are rumored to be next. More photos of the Yearning For Zion ranch can be seen at this link.
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