State alleges 'pervasive pattern' of sexual abuse at Eldorado-area compound; 417 children removed

[El Supremo]

Source: San Angelo Standard-Times

Originally published 02:40 p.m., April 8, 2008
Updated 04:06 p.m., April 8, 2008

State child welfare officials are alleging a "pervasive pattern and practice" of forced marriage and sexual abuse inside the secretive Schleicher County compound from which hundreds of children have been removed.

According to documents filed this afternoon in state District Court in Tom Green County, Child Protective Services asked Judge Barbara Walther to grant the agency custody of all 417 boys and girls removed from the YFZ Ranch as of this afternoon because every child is at risk for abuse.

"This pattern and practice places all of the children located at the YFZ Ranch, both male and female, to risks of emotional, physical and/or sexual abuse," according to an affidavit seeking custody of the children, filed by Lynn McFadden, a CPS investigator.

CPS believes it has removed all the children from the compound, spokeswoman Marleigh Meisner said this afternoon, as well as 139 women who willingly left, in many cases to join their children....



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[Mountainman]

1. It looks to me like it was a breading farm for the sexual pleasures of the men.

There was no religion here.

There was a movie once with the title of "Prime Cut". In it young women were treated like cattle and kept in pens awaiting to be sold to men. It stared Lee Marvin. I think he played a good guy who was rescuing the women.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_Cut
As they are standing next to a cattle pen with young women offered for auction, one of them, who is later revealed to have the name Poppy (Sissy Spacek), begs Devlin for help. Devlin takes her with him "on account". Back at the hotel he puts the woman in a large bed in their suite to recuperate. When she wakes up, she tells Devlin about her history of being sold into white slavery from an orphanage in Missouri. Devlin promises to take her to the fair the next day.





This place reminds me of that movie.

[heliarc]

4. They remind me of anything the Marquis De Sade ever wrote.

Frightening to say the least.

[DeSwiss]

2. To which....

...I'm certain the FLDS will counter that they have a 1st Amendment right to practice forced marriages and sexual abuse.

- Because its in their bible....

K&R!!!

[musette_sf]

3. "139 women who willingly left"

You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I'll rise.

http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15623

bright blessings to the 139 women, and their children, released from that Hell On Earth. they will rise, they will survive, and they will finally LIVE.

[heliarc]

5. Yes, best of luck to them.

I hope that they are able to enjoy life on the outside.

[ToughLuck]

6. Horrible nightmare is over I hope for these children.

[DeepModem Mom]

7. Thanks for posting this report. I've really got no words. nt

[Mari3333]

8. here are the court documents

on smoking gun:


http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2008/0408081texas1.html

[appleannie1]

9. Last night I went to a Conservative site while researching something.

Many of the comments posted were people that felt the state had no right to interfere with anyone's religion. They started, I do not agree with what they were doing to children BUT. How can anyone defend a so-called religion that abuses children? Children are not meant to be sex toys for perverted old men that can't get it on with an adult female. And, I understand the abused wife syndrome having seen it where I worked but damn, how could they let it happen to their own children? Letting a man abuse them is one thing, but I would have killed for any of my kids. I hope those kids are placed in homes of loving people that actually care for children. Too often, foster parents are no better than where those innocent children were unlucky enough to be born.

[CountAllVotes]

10. You are so very right

"Too often, foster parents are no better than where those innocent children ..."

I couldn't agree with you more. My own mother was a "foster child". She had a lot of emotional problems to say the very least. She too was abused in many ways.

That was in 1925 (the "adoption"). It sickens me to no end when I think of her very SAD life. :cry: