Warren Jeffs FLDS compound in Texas surrounded by police

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SuziQ said:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/04/04/texas.ranch/index.html

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spokeswoman for Child Protective Services told The Associated Press that a busload of children were taken from the ranch on Friday.
The wire service reported that the white bus, accompanied by state troopers, appeared to be filled with mostly girls.
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I understand the need, but this has to be so traumatic for them. I really hope CPS was ready for this and has lots of caring staff there to help explain what is going on.
 
Taximom said:
I understand the need, but this has to be so traumatic for them. I really hope CPS was ready for this and has lots of caring staff there to help explain what is going on.
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I feel the same way. Especially since the kids are raised to fear anyone and anything outside of their limited world.
 
Whoa! Authorities are downplaying the significance of their actions. IMO, removing 52 kids from their homes says this is MAJOR!

http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/04/04/texas.ranch/index.html

Authorities say they removed 52 children, ages 6 months to 17 years, from a West Texas ranch occupied by followers of imprisoned polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs.
 
http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=3004779

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The investigation started when a girl from inside the ranch called police saying she was sexually abused. That's why the Texas Department of Family Services got involved and, with help from sheriff's deputies, entered the ranch to talk to people.
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A few hours ago, the Texas Department of Public Safety also said they were still serving search and arrest warrants and were looking for some people. As of right now, no arrests have been made. "It appears they may be settling in for a long ordeal here," Mankin said. "They've also got a no-fly zone 5,000 feet above and five miles around. You can't even fly over the thing now."
 
Warren Jeffs and his followers for far too long have acted in complete disregard for the laws of the land. About time this happened.
 
http://www.abc4.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=540ffaeb-dc67-40dc-8757-4f0aac3388c1

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A bus load of children, half of which are pregnant teens, were taken from the complex.
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The encounter began as a result of a protective order filed in a Texas court on behalf of a 16-year-old girl, who informed authorities that she was being abused. When police tried to serve the order, sect followers tried to block the officers' entry. When police showed up with an armored vehicle and informed the followers they would run through the blockade, the sect members allowed them through.
 
http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=news/state&id=6028847

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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.
 
This one has been a long time coming. I am glad it is going peacefully, and glad that finally they can get those girls out of there.

But I am wondering about the boys. There were some rumors in the past.
 
It is about time!! Good!! I am glad the girl called and freed those poor children from such a place. She did absolutely the right thing and so did LE. Bravo!!!
 
The FDLS church purchased the "Yearning for Zion Ranch" in 2004 and started building. The article said that a girl from the compound called and complained about girls being abused there, and that's what caused the raid. It also stated that local officials have been complaining for years about the religious sect being there.

I am wondering what they were complaining about other than the fact that it was there and it was a religious sect.
 
mysteriew said:
This one has been a long time coming. I am glad it is going peacefully, and glad that finally they can get those girls out of there.

But I am wondering about the boys. There were some rumors in the past.
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Young men and boys are in some ways treated as bady as women are. They are viewed as competition by older men, if you get my drift. And they are literally tossed out into the desert with no money, no food and nowhere to go.
 
The Lost Boys of Utah:

http://www.childbrides.org/boys.html

They are just young men (mostly young teenagers) who have become competition to the older men who want more (and usually much younger) wives. They are kicked out of their homes and run out of town. They often leave with just the shirts on their backs. Most have minimum education and few life-skills. But, the Prophet said that they must go away. So their parents cast them out like unwanted pets. Now, they are out on the street trying to fend for themselves. They are known as the "Lost Boys".

Read the tragic stories of their attempting to survive and to integrate into mainstream society. These articles are in chronological order. (more at link)
 
http://www.childbrides.org/boys_DN_lost_boys.html

UNIDENTIFIED MALE They simply knock on their door and take them and let them off in the desert.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

NORVILLE: Some as young as 13. And wait until you hear why.

Tonight, exclusive, one of polygamy‘s darkest secrets.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Terrifying, absolutely terrifying.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

ANNOUNCER: From studio 3K in Rockefeller Center, Deborah Norville.

And good evening, everybody. Imagine you‘re as young as 13 years old and you‘re being kicked out of your home, told to leave your community with nothing more than the clothes on your back, nowhere to go, no food to eat. (more at link)
 
scarpetta said:
The FDLS church purchased the "Yearning for Zion Ranch" in 2004 and started building. The article said that a girl from the compound called and complained about girls being abused there, and that's what caused the raid. It also stated that local officials have been complaining for years about the religious sect being there.

I am wondering what they were complaining about other than the fact that it was there and it was a religious sect.
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if i was the local official i know what i would complain about. this sect allows the marriage of child brides. i would not want that associated with my town. who wants their town known as "the place the crazy people that marry young girls lives."
 
sherri79 said:
if i was the local official i know what i would complain about. this sect allows the marriage of child brides. i would not want that associated with my town. who wants their town known as "the place the crazy people that marry young girls lives."
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If they have been there since 2004 and the locals knew this then I guess their hands were tied if there were no eye witnesses and no members were complaining. That's what it looks like anyway.
 
scarpetta said:
If they have been there since 2004 and the locals knew this then I guess their hands were tied if there were no eye witnesses and no members were complaining. That's what it looks like anyway.
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sounds like it to me. i am shocked they got a complaint now. it is rare that these girls speak out.
 
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.
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http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iIdMpRHjN4hpNKBhfYyAsR4DDo4QD8VREMAG0
 
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