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Judi Lynn

(160,219 posts)
Tue Jan 22, 2013, 11:13 PM Jan 2013

Criminal probe ongoing into Jeffs polygamous sect

Source: Associated Press

Criminal probe ongoing into Jeffs polygamous sect
By BRIAN SKOLOFF, Associated Press | January 22, 2013 | Updated: January 22, 2013 7:36pm

PHOENIX (AP) — Law enforcement in a town dominated by one of the nation's largest polygamous sects has been preventing women from leaving, leading to a criminal probe of the church run by its jailed leader Warren Jeffs, Arizona's attorney general said Tuesday.

Attorney General Tom Horne held a news conference in Phoenix to announce that a 26-year-old woman had been granted temporary custody of her six children and had fled the town of Colorado City, Ariz., the home base of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

He said she was forced by Jeffs to marry her brother-in-law at the age of 14, and had since been virtually held captive in the town on the Utah-Arizona border, along with many other women who want to leave.

"What they do is say, 'Everybody watch her so she won't run away.' Then she can't leave," Horne said. "Women who wanted to escape have been forcibly held by the marshals against their will."



Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/texas/article/Criminal-probe-ongoing-into-Jeffs-polygamous-sect-4214013.php

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Criminal probe ongoing into Jeffs polygamous sect (Original Post) Judi Lynn Jan 2013 OP
There are times when I wish I had never read "Under the Banner of Heaven" arcane1 Jan 2013 #1
Those town marshals need to be locked up in Supermax for life. kestrel91316 Jan 2013 #2
Jeffs has plenty of contacts CountAllVotes Jan 2013 #3
On Reddit I saw a pic of him kissing his teen "brides". Sicko! Odin2005 Jan 2013 #4
Southwestern Utah is an extremely beautiful place Stainless Jan 2013 #5
 

arcane1

(38,613 posts)
1. There are times when I wish I had never read "Under the Banner of Heaven"
Tue Jan 22, 2013, 11:21 PM
Jan 2013

But most of the time I instead wish that more people would read it.

 

kestrel91316

(51,666 posts)
2. Those town marshals need to be locked up in Supermax for life.
Tue Jan 22, 2013, 11:56 PM
Jan 2013

AFTER they've been sued into the poorhouse.

CountAllVotes

(20,854 posts)
3. Jeffs has plenty of contacts
Wed Jan 23, 2013, 01:11 AM
Jan 2013

Locked up or not this freak has plenty of power and yes, these women are nothing more than sex-slaves for the creeps that follow this dangerous parasite!



Stainless

(717 posts)
5. Southwestern Utah is an extremely beautiful place
Wed Jan 23, 2013, 01:16 PM
Jan 2013

but the Fundamentalist Mormon towns of Hilldale,Utah and Colorado City, Arizona are twin cesspools of human slavery and sexual perversion sanctioned by religious dogma and usually ignored by the State.

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