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http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_9270830
"A federal appeals court revived a portion of a lawsuit that claims a man was not rehired at a cabinet company because he quit a southern Utah polygamous sect. Some evidence is on tape."

"A federal judge in Utah barred the taped conversations from evidence, calling them hearsay. But the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver thisweek said the tapes were "direct evidence" that raised a genuine concern about the reason not to rehire Fischer. Fischer's attorney, Jim Stewart, said the rehiring claim can be heard again in U.S. District Court in Salt Lake City."
 
When Texas child welfare authorities released statistics showing nearly 60 percent of the teen girls taken from a polygamist sect's ranch were pregnant or had children, they seemed to prove what was alleged all along: The sect commonly pushed girls into marriage and sex.

But in the past week, the state has twice been forced to admit "girls" who gave birth while in state custody are actually adults. One was 22 and claims she showed state officials a Utah birth certificate shortly after she and more than 400 minors were seized from the west Texas ranch in an April raid.

snip....Jeffs' lawyers want the incest counts dropped, arguing that prosecutors in Mohave County cannot pursue those charges along with the sexual conduct counts. A judge is considering the request.
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iIdMpRHjN4hpNKBhfYyAsR4DDo4QD90N2T8G0
 
mollymalone said:
http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_9270830
"A federal appeals court revived a portion of a lawsuit that claims a man was not rehired at a cabinet company because he quit a southern Utah polygamous sect. Some evidence is on tape."

"A federal judge in Utah barred the taped conversations from evidence, calling them hearsay. But the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver thisweek said the tapes were "direct evidence" that raised a genuine concern about the reason not to rehire Fischer. Fischer's attorney, Jim Stewart, said the rehiring claim can be heard again in U.S. District Court in Salt Lake City."
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Carolyn Jessop writes about Dan Fisher in her book 'Escape.' Fisher or Fischer is a very wealthy dentist that invented tooth whitening stuff. He has a foundation dedicated to helping the "Lost Boys" and others leaving the FLDS. Carolyn and her family lived in one of his guest houses for a time during her transition to the "real" world. Just FYI.
 
Lawyers for Warren Jeffs asked an Arizona judge Friday to drop incest charges against the imprisoned polygamist leader.

Jeffs, who was convicted in a similar case last year in Utah, is charged in Mohave County as an accomplice with four counts each of incest and sexual conduct. The charges stem from two arranged marriages between teenage girls and their older male relatives, one of whom was in his 50s.

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/tx/5786489.html
 
Hearings begin Monday
Attorneys want FLDS children treated as individuals in court

Cases for seven children from one family, five from another and at least two fathered by polygamous sect leader Warren S. Jeffs are among those set for court Monday as the next phase begins in the largest child welfare action in United States history.
In all, attorneys for at least 35 children or their parents will converge on the Tom Green County Courthouse in San Angelo, Texas, for the first day of mandatory status hearings that continue through June 4.
http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_9295315
 
Ex-FLDS child bride's book shouldn't interfere with prosecution, attorney says

A lawyer for the star witness in the criminal case against Fundamentalist LDS Church leader Warren Jeffs said her new book should not be allowed to interfere with the prosecution of her ex-husband.
In a statement to the Deseret News on Saturday, Elissa Wall's attorney, Roger Hoole, said his client maintains that Allen Steed "was both a victim of Warren Jeffs and a perpetrator of child abuse.

"Although Elissa has a First Amendment right to tell her story, Allen Steed is presumed innocent and no one familiar with 'Stolen Innocence' should be allowed on any jury in which the alleged crimes are tried," Hoole said in his statement.
http://deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,700226893,00.html
 
Change your ways or lose your children, Texas to tell mothers in polygamist sect

Some lawyers believe this could mean women would never be able to return to the Yearning for Zion ranch in Eldorado, and would have to choose between some of their beliefs and their children.

But other experts said adults who have tolerated underage "marriages" of girls to older men and apparently have cast out teenage boys might have forfeited all rights to raise their children – and are lucky to be given a shot at regaining their youngsters.

In advance of court hearings that begin Monday, Child Protective Services has drafted 10 goals and 14 tasks that parents will have to work toward to regain custody of their children.

CPS is proposing to give parents until next April to "provide a home free of persons who have or will abuse" children and "demonstrate the ability to protect the child[ren] from sexual abuse." The children will remain in state custody until a judge is satisfied that the parents have complied.

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcon...gamists_15tex.ART.State.Edition2.46911f3.html
 
Change your ways or lose your children, Texas to tell mothers in polygamist sect

Some lawyers believe this could mean women would never be able to return to the Yearning for Zion ranch in Eldorado, and would have to choose between some of their beliefs and their children.

But other experts said adults who have tolerated underage "marriages" of girls to older men and apparently have cast out teenage boys might have forfeited all rights to raise their children – and are lucky to be given a shot at regaining their youngsters.

In advance of court hearings that begin Monday, Child Protective Services has drafted 10 goals and 14 tasks that parents will have to work toward to regain custody of their children.

CPS is proposing to give parents until next April to "provide a home free of persons who have or will abuse" children and "demonstrate the ability to protect the child[ren] from sexual abuse." The children will remain in state custody until a judge is satisfied that the parents have complied.

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcon...gamists_15tex.ART.State.Edition2.46911f3.html
 
Two children of jailed "prophet" Warren Steed Jeffs are among the hundreds of children removed from a polygamist ranch by child welfare authorities, court officials said Monday.

Court hearings in the historic Texas polygamist child custody case have resumed, with cases going on in five courtrooms. Texas child welfare officials removed more than 400 children from a polygamist ranch in April.

The hearings are being held for parents to review documents called "family service plans" that dictate the conditions under which they can regain custody, lawyers said.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/05/19/polygamist.retreat/?iref=mpstoryview
 
http://deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,700227316,00.html
"Polygamous sect leader Warren Jeffs has put the Utah Supreme Court on notice he plans to appeal his conviction last year of two counts of rape as an accomplice.
According to court docket information, attorneys for Jeffs last week filed a notice of appeal with the supreme court. The notice is expected to be followed by a legal brief by Jeffs outlining why he thinks his conviction should be overturned."

"The 52-year-old leader of the FLDS Church claims his rights were violated when one juror was dismissed and an alternate juror was seated after 13 hours of deliberations had already passed." "Attorneys for Jeffs say it was possible that the jury had already reached a verdict on the first count and had indicated to the court they were deadlocked on the second count when the juror was dismissed."
 
It has been more than six weeks since Texas authorities took a Canadian girl into custody during a raid of the isolated compound of the polygamist Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

However, child-protection workers are still trying to figure out how old she is as well as verifying her citizenship. Questions are also being raised about why she was inTexas.

A former church member familiar with the Canadian family has speculated the girl may have been at the compound in Eldorado, Tex., for up to two years, and may have been in a so-called celestial marriage with an older church member.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20080519.POLYGAMY19/TPStory/National
 
State to Lay Out Steps for Sect Parents to Regain Children

During a series of hearings beginning today, Texas child protection workers are expected to tell a judge that members of a West Texas polygamous sect must renounce an alleged decades-long practice of marrying underage girls to older men if they want to regain custody of their children.

Texas officials will present a series of steps that Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints parents will have to follow in order for their children to be returned, including proving they can provide a home free from potential child abusers and demonstrating the ability to protect children from abuse.

"You can't be in bigamist marriages, and the other thing you can't do is marry off young teenagers to very old men," said Scott McCown, a former Texas district court judge.

"If they are not willing to give that up, the state's position is going to be that the children are never going to go home. That's going to be state's non-negotiable bottom line," McCown said.

But this is not the first time the sect's practices have been challenged by state authorities, and it was unclear what the long-term impact will be on the polygamous group, which has been raided by authorities in several states four times in the last 75 years.

http://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/story?id=4873901&page=1
 
Arthur L. Barlow has never stepped foot on the YFZ Ranch and he left the polygamous sect that resides there four years ago.
But he is now being asked by Texas to comply with a family service plan as part of returning children taken from the ranch to their parents.
If it will get the children out of state custody, he'll do it, Arthur Barlow told a judge Tuesday.
"I'm here to help," he said, later adding that "I know the children belong [with their mother] or with me."
http://origin.sltrib.com/ci_9322072
 
State lawmakers started adding up Tuesday the "extraordinary" costs related to the raid on a polygamist sect's ranch last month and began trying to figure out where to find the expected $30 million the case will eventually cost over the next year.

"We basically need to pay what it's going to cost to do the job right and we need to know, to the best of your ability, what that cost is so we can factor that in when we're making decisions about other worthwhile costs and needs in this state," Senate Finance Committee Chairman Steve Ogden told Health and Human Services Executive Commissioner Albert Hawkins during a hearing Thursday.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/tx/5792763.html
 
http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=3348643

In the midst of a three-week marathon of hearings that began yesterday, FLDS member Dan Jessop filed a new motion asking for Judge Barbara Walther's removal from his case because of bias and prejudice. Two of Jessop's children were taken into state custody early last month. A third child was born last week and placed in state custody just three hours later.

A supervising judge heard Jessop's motion for "recusal" of Judge Walther in a special hearing this morning. That judge quickly dismissed the motion.
 
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/5793538.html
"Ten "girls" taken into custody by Texas Child Protective Services have convinced the agency they are really adults and more are expected to be similarly reclassified this week..." "On Tuesday, six more "girls" were deemed adults, including 27-year-old Leona Allred......" "Two others, Merilyn Jeffs Keate and Sarah Cathleen Jessop Nielsen, were reclassified as adults Monday as five judges began sifting through the cases of all the children taken from the Yearning For Zion Ranch in West Texas."

"But also Tuesday, two cases came up that revealed girls as young as 15 and 16 had been united in spiritual marriages with older men. One of those girls, now 19, was ruled an adult by the courts but not before she said in a conference call to the court that she could have been no older than 16 when her daughter was born on Aug. 19, 2005. And in another courtroom, information gleaned from the records of a 17-year-old indicated she had to have been 15 when her first child was born."
 
http://fe43.news.sp1.yahoo.com/video/3262
Various news videos

A report on Swinton (believed to be the one who made the phone calls)
Her father was a convicted murderer before she was born, she later
filed a restraining order against him; she has a history of false reports;
She was featured in a book about foster care in Nashville, TN, titled "Raising Shane". She also worked at State Farm insurance.

There's a video with Elissa Wall explaining that at 14 when she married she had no idea how babies were made or of the sexual acts that were necessary to create them.

Cult Cash - Fox Report with Rick Ross in which they discuss the finances of YFZ and how and where the money came from to build the compound.

Several more video links on this site.
 
Court: Texas had no right to remove FLDS children

Story Highlights

NEW: Court: State did not prove danger to children was "imminent enough"

Authorities removed more than 460 children from the YFZ Ranch in April

The children were seized after authorities received allegations of abuse

Parents reject abuse claims, have pushed for state to return children

http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/05/22/flds.ruling/index.html
 
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