The Rest of the Story...

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I would assume one of the things the Senate probe will be looking at is the ubiquitous "UEP". Try as I might I am still trying to understand what it actually is and how it functions. I also am mystified by who the "trustees" are having to pay money out to exactly?

I also am not clear on who Bruce Wisan is nor on how he got to the position of power he now holds.

One thing I do find alarming, is the list of witnesses lined up to be called to speak to the Senate. Why is this list always composed of the ex's and the nay sayers only?

What would it hurt to include some current FLDS members? Why cant we hear both sides of the story?

Why is one suppressed and one highlighted?

That begins to look like the "effort" is not to get at the truth, but rather to promote a prior agenda.

 

[minachica]

It seems that the FLDSers have historically been very reluctant to testify under oath - I wonder if the committee just can't find anyone willing to? If I were pushing for an investigation, I would welcome the chance to finally get them to say something "on the record."

 

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I found an explanation of history and function of the UEP.

This was written by a man who is in a unique spot. He grew up FLDS and is no longer a member, but he is not an angry apostate. This makes him a "bridge" if you will between the FLDS world and those of us in the mainstream world. The "bridge" in this case is not in place with an agenda to harm. Rather, the agenda is to educate.

He freely admits and knows his prejudices. When it comes to prejudices we all have them. It is the individual who insists they have none or who are unaware of theirs that get us nowhere factually speaking.

Having grown up with Flora and Carolyn and the brothers and fathers and mothers of the FLDS group, he has that insider knowledge that is hard to come by.

Here are his thoughts about the UEP.


The original concept:" The United Order, the economic order of Heaven, the effort of men and their families living in a community with all things in common; is the highest order between men ever established on earth."


History"The United Effort Plan was formed at the direction of the prophet John Y Barlow in 1942. This was a legal trust created to provide a sanctuary for the United Order. The original 600+ acres in the trust was land owned by Leroy S Johnson. He refused to take his property back from John Y Barlow at the failure of the first attempt by several men to hold their property in common. The UEP Trust was a document that Brigham Young spoke about:

(snipped quote)

The property was to be divided up into individual lots for the members of the church, designated by the trustees of the Trust. When a member of the church went to the trustees with his just wants and needs, he was given a lot as a stewardship, to build up the church under the Trust. Any building put onto the property became property owned by the Trust. In essence, it was a donation to the church , and thus to the United Effort Plan, by the men building on the property.

The purpose of the Trust being held as a Trust was to keep anyone who left the church from staying there and using their influence to attack the leadership of the church from the UEP property. And to preserve and protect the Unity of the men and women who would stay from the influences of the apostates and the world.

But bitter men, when they feel that they are injured, never assume they could be in the wrong. When they leave the “wrongs” of the church, they feel like they should be repaid everything they gave to the church through building upon the Trust lands.

It is akin to demanding all of the tithes and offerings from any church a follower leaves."

(interesting analogy)


"But a good man would leave in a moment if he felt like he needed to seperate from those who did not believe as he did. A good man would be glad to leave if he left for a good reason. A good man is a defender, not an attacker.

Brigham Young left behind several houses when he was persecuted in the east and driven to Utah. When the President of the United States sent the Army to stop the Mormons from wrongs that didn’t exist in 1857 30,000 Saints boarded up their homes and started to move away, some with straw on them ready to burn them down. When Leroy S Johnson and others finished building seven houses on Dayer Labaron’s property in Mexico, he freely left them when Dayer refused to let them live in them unless they accepted him as the head of the Kingdom of God. And recently after a judge confiscated the UEP to "help" the FLDS people, several men have walked away from very large and expansive homes. The keys are in Bruce Wisan’s pocket.

The FLDS trustees of the UEP did not evict anyone unless they had a place to go. The purpose of the trust was to preserve the unity of the faithful followers, those who no longer wanted to follow were expected to find somewhere else to live. But no one was evicted who did not have accommodations arranged for themselves elsewhere. The eviction notices were most often for those who moved away but tried to give the home to another dissadent. When Milton and Lenore Holm left the church, Milton’s brothers (my uncles) went to him and volunteered to help him pay for a new place off of the UEP anywhere he might want one, even up in Idaho where his mother and step-father (who had left the church several years earlier) lived. When the famous “historian” Benjamin Bistline moved off of the UEP property, he moved into a home in Cane Beds, AZ that the FLDS gave to him and refurbished for him. His wife said it was the best house she ever lived in. He was never evicted from the shack he lived in on the UEP, even though he had become embittered over ten years earlier. The only eviction notices ever given by the FLDS trustees were to those they knew had homes and accommodations elsewhere. No family was ever thrown on the street by the FLDS."

 

[Glow]

It seems that the FLDSers have historically been very reluctant to testify under oath - I wonder if the committee just can't find anyone willing to? If I were pushing for an investigation, I would welcome the chance to finally get them to say something "on the record."

That is a good question and I dont know the answer. Would Willie Jessop (or another FLDS spokesperson) be willing to testify?

I agree with you that we should welcome the chance to get something on record also.


By the way, welcome to WebSleuths minachina! I see this is your first post!

 

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Senate hearing on FLDS
The official notice of the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on polygamy was issued yesterday. Here it is:

NOTICE OF COMMITTEE HEARING

The Senate Committee on the Judiciary has scheduled a hearing on ''Crimes Associated with Polygamy: The Need for a Coordinated State and Federal Response'' for Thursday, July 24, 2008 at 10:00 a.m. in Room 226 of the Senate Dirksen Office Building.

Senator Whitehouse will preside.

By order of the Chairman

 

[Glow]

Here is another factual look at the UEP



UEP at a glance

The United Effort Plan Trust was officially organized in 1942 by a fundamentalist Mormon group known at the time as The Work - now the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

It was designed to protect property holdings and, through a communal effort, support members with plural families.

The property trust holds virtually all land and buildings in Hildale, Utah, and Colorado City, Ariz., formerly known as Short Creek; it also includes property in Bountiful, British Columbia. The holdings have an estimated value around $110 million.

The UEP Trust was placed under court management in May 2005 after the FLDS failed to defend its assets against several lawsuits that alleged wrongdoing by trustees and church leaders. Salt Lake City accountant Bruce R. Wisan has managed it since then.

In March 2007, Wisan received a $8.8 million default judgment against the FLDS church and former trustees, a debt he has partially satisfied by seizing a farm formerly operated by the sect. Still owed: $5 million or so, with interest.

Wisan now works with an appointed advisory board that includes: Carolyn Jessop; Seth Cooke; Don Timpson; Katie Cox; Deloy Bateman; Robert Huddleston; and Margaret Cooke. With the exception of Huddleston and Timpson, the rest are former FLDS members.
- Brooke Adams

 

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The UEP Trust advisors


I have heard from several readers who said I incorrectly stated in a story about a lawsuit filed against the UEP Trust that advisory board member Don Timpson has never been a member of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

Technically, that is true but I could have made it more clear that he does have ties to what was known as ''The Priesthood Work,'' or simply ''The Work,'' before a split in the 1980s that led part of the community to settle in nearby Centennial Park, Ariz.

The FLDS church was officially incorporated in 1991, so Don never belonged to that church.

What I should have said was that with the exception of board member Robert Huddleston, all of the board members currently or formerly lived in the community and have ties to the FLDS.

I have posted this overview of the board before, but it is worth repeating given the renewed focus on the trust. Here is a list of the advisory board members:

Katie Cox is the owner of Southwest Nursery in Hildale and former plural wife whose late husband Don was among those who sued the UEP Trust in the 1980s.

Seth Cooke is a contractor who lives in Cane Beds, Ariz., a nearby community, but grew up in Short Creek and was part of the community until he participated in the 1980s lawsuit against the UEP.

Carolyn Jessop, a former plural wife of Merril Jessop (bishop at the YFZ Ranch) who left the sect in 2003 and has written about her experiences in her memoir ''Escape.'' She lives in the Salt Lake Valley.

Don Timpson, an educator who works at Mohave Community College, lives in Colorado City and was also a plaintiff in the first UEP Trust fight. He is now a member of the fundamentalist Mormon group based in Centennial Park, Ariz., known as ''The Work of Jesus Christ.''

Deloy Bateman, a science teacher who works at El Capitan School in Colorado City, ex-FLDS member and brother-in-law of Dan Fischer, who has funded lawsuits against the FLDS. He lives in Colorado City, Ariz.

Margaret Cooke, an ex-FLDS member who left in 1994 with seven of her eight children.

Robert Huddleston, a former president of Dixie State College who lives in St. George.

 

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This blogger (not FLDS) has been a real pain to those trying to bury the real story.

He keeps hitting the ball out of the park.

Gotta love him


here's the rest of the story....



PETITION FOR GIVEEMHELLHARRY COMING OUT
by Bill

By tomorrow, a new petition will be out on the internet which addresses the private hearings going on in congress that only invites those who are against the FLDS to show up and amuse Harry Reid.

Unless we all took a left turn at Albuquerque, we;re still in the United States whether Harry likes it or not!

We have no problem with Harry joining the good old boys on their pogrom, but they need to move to Nazi Germany to do it and Celebrate Adolf’s Birthday without us.

Stay tuned, the “Party” is just beginning!

http://www.flds.ws/

 

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and here it is -

quote
"A petition is now being put together to members of this kangaroo court to
follow the Constitution and stop persecuting the FLDS for being Mormon.
It's not your regular petition whereby the numbers add up and you hope it is sent to somebody to consider (Which they rarely do), it will be sent directly to each members e mail address.

They might ignore the words, but they won't ignore the numbers. When it comes out, we'll distribute it far and wide, please have everyone you know sign and send it to Harry and his pals.

Harry himself has a site:

http://www.giveemhellharry.com/

give him a little hell back for not following his Oath and protecting the Rights of ALL citizens, even those his Church buddies in Salt Lake tells him not to."

Bill Medvecky,
freethefldschildren

 

[blaize]

Isn't this just the most convoluted story? Good lord there are so many groups seemingly with a stake in the outcome that the mind boggles.

If the senate really is only hearing from anti-FLDS people than they're not really going to get the whole story so just for the sake of balance they should let anyone speak who has a story to tell them and go from there.

 

[Glow]

It really is Blaize.

Also we have the Grand Jury convening in Texas coming up this week.


One of the hallmarks of our society is the right of each individual to speak and be heard. A one sided hearing flies in the face of that concept.

Even criminals have the right to a jury that hears both sides present their evidence. That should at the very least apply in a Senate hearing. If this does turn out to be a one sided affair then it is going to seem somewhat reminiscent of the McCarthy hearings.

Politics and sex, what an incongruous mix for a Senate investigation!

 

[Pandora]

Politics and sex, what an incongruous mix for a Senate investigation!

At least all of the senators would show up!

 

[Glow]

Good one Pandora!

 

[Glow]

It seems that the FLDSers have historically been very reluctant to testify under oath - I wonder if the committee just can't find anyone willing to? If I were pushing for an investigation, I would welcome the chance to finally get them to say something "on the record."

It seems the FLDS would welcome the opportunity to speak.

They posted this letter at their website

http://www.truthwillprevail.org/index.php?parentid=1&index=101



Dear Senator:

"In Washington Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is attempting to promote a federal witch hunt among the FLDS by gathering witnesses to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee on July 24. Among his potential witnesses are Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff, Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard, and ex-FLDS members Carolyn Jessop and Dan Fischer. Reid is assuring a collection of ex parte testimony by failing to invite any FLDS members or supporters.

”In a letter to Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey in April, Reid solicited his help to fight ‘pervasive criminal activity’ in polygamous groups, particularly the FLDS. Jon Summers, an employee in Reid’s office stated to the Salt Lake Tribune, ‘He is trying to step up federal enforcement against abuses that often occur in these polygamous sects.’ Both of these statements indicate the prejudiced view that the FLDS people must be guilty of crimes and that with sufficient investigation something is bound to turn up."

I live and vote in California. I would at least hope that some of the current members of the FLDS would be allowed to be heard by this committee.

I flew to Texas to research the FLDS story firsthand. I arrived in Texas the day Judge Walther signed the order to return the children to their parents. I was granted access to the YFZ ranch, and I was able to interview Willie Jessop and several members of the FLDS.

Three of the people I interviewed were young men who were all 17 at the time of the raid on April 3rd.

The three young men along with over 450 other children were taken into custody. The three young men were all searched before getting on the bus. They were told before getting on the bus they were being taken to see their parents.

Once on the bus they were informed of their true destination, a shelter where they were denied access to their parents and had no access to lawyers for thirty days or more. Their cell phones were taken; they were denied the right to write in their journals; they were not even allowed to wave at their parents from a distance.

The CPS workers that treated them with compassion and understanding were replaced.
They were told they were uneducated.

It brought me to tears to hear firsthand the abuse these innocent people went through at the hands over over-zealous officials acting on unsound evidence.

Senator, most of these people are honest, hard-working, forgiving people. They are not on welfare, and the FLDS ranch in Texas paid over $ 450,000.00 in property taxes last year.

Please grant these people the right to have a say before the committee.

If a judiciary hearing is held on the FLDS, the hearing should be about the abuse these peaceful and forgiving people have suffered at the hands of officials in Texas in taking over 450 innocent children into custody and abusing the civil rights of their innocent parents.

I will send a copy of this letter to all the members of the judiciary committee in hopes the FLDS will have their day before the Senate and freedom will be restored to these good people.

It is so hard to see this abuse of American citizens happen in America. The news never gave us the true facts on this raid from the start. If it was not for the Appeals Court in Texas, the over 450 children would still be in state custody.

Yes, the time is way past due for the Federal government to get involved, not on a witch hunt but on finding out the truth why the civil rights of so many FLDS members were denied.

Please hold the officials of Texas accountable for the abuse of their powers.

Best regards,
Raymond Anderson

 

[Glow]

Well the big news that began breaking just after midnite seems to be the "salacious" story on Teresa Jeffs having been spiritually married at the age of 15.

Isn't it interesting that the CASA ( employees of the Texas government) folks seem to think this is shocking and lascivious conduct on the part of the FLDS and yet Texas itself allowed physical marriages at the age of 14 just three short years ago.

Hello pot! Meet kettle.


I guess what makes this story "seem" so big is the overall picture. If you raid a ranch using paramilitary force and using a bogus excuse and take 460 children away from their families and are then forced to give them back...you have egg - on - your - face.

Somebody better find something! Natalie Malonis is running out of things to say on Nancy Grace's show!

Meanwhile for all that effort, there is that pesky 20 million dollar price tag hanging, dangling in fact while everyone still waits to see even one person rescued from anything.

It has already been established that Teresa is a virgin. From what I understand this marriage is a "spiritual" one not a legal one. So what crime exactly has been committed?

We can dislike polygamy all day long, but what about it is illegal exactly? Is it the "practice" of it or just the theory?

 

[Glow]

As usual Brooke Adams is accurate and unbiased in her reporting...


"Connie Gauwain, guardian ad litem for Teresa Jeffs, has ensured that all the world now knows at least some of the evidence being presented to the Schleicher County Grand Jury, which meets again on Tuesday.

Gauwain filed a report with 51st District Judge Barbara Walther that showed Teresa Jeffs was married by her father to a 34-year-old man a day after the girl turned 15.

Gauwain included photographs, diaries, a dictation by Jeffs, and a marriage record in her report to bolster her view that any attempt by Teresa to have Natalie Malonis removed as her attorney is ill-advised.

The report is dated July 17, but according to news reports was not filed in the Tom Green County Court until late Friday, in preparation for a hearing that was supposed to take place Monday.

Malonis had asked for the hearing so that Teresa could speak directly with Walther about why she wants a new attorney.

That hearing was postponed on Thursday, for reasons no one seems to know.

Nevertheless, a day later Gauwain's report was filed and obviously leaked to the media. The Houston Chronicle, which broke this story, said a court clerk contacted midafternoon on Friday did not know whether the report had been filed.

The newspaper said Malonis confirmed it had been filed.

The Houston Chronicle quotes Malonis as saying: ''I hate that it's come to this but hopefully now my client and I can get our relationship away from public scrutiny and back on track and start going forward.''

Adding to the intrigue about the hearing: According to a court document filed by a defense attorney representing Teresa in the grand jury proceedings, the girl did sent Walther a letter in June asking that Malonis be replaced. Teresa did not, however, ask Malonis to set up a private meeting with the judge, which was the primary purpose of Monday's hearing. Her letter ''should suffice,'' her attorney said in this filing.

The filing also states that any private meeting between the judge and Teresa is riddled with land mines for Teresa, given that she is a witness in the grand jury proceedings and the judge may later preside over any criminal trial that results from those proceedings.

All of that aside, the new revelations show why the criminal and child welfare investigations of the FLDS are ongoing.

A ''dictation'' by Warren Jeffs submitted in Gauwain's report provides astonishing details about Teresa's marriage as well as two others.

Gauwain's report and documents included with it imply that Teresa had an intimate relationship with her ''husband.'' Teresa has publicly denied that.

Even if the marriage was never consummated, Texas authorities appear to have solid evidence that a number of FLDS members participated in her illegal marriage.

Warren Jeffs, of course, heads the list. He presided over the marriage, which took place July 27, 2006, at the YFZ Ranch. That is the same day Warren Jeffs was married to a 13-year-old daughter of Merril Jessop. Leroy Jessop, Merril's son, also was apparently married that day to a minor daughter of Wendell Nielsen and his wife Sally.

Others who would now fall in the scope of the investigation because they were present at these ceremonies or consented to having minor girls married: Annette Jeffs, Teresa's mother; Raymond Jessop, the man who was married to Teresa; Merril Jessop, who also conducted Warren's marriage; Wendell Nielsen; Barbara Jessop and Sally Nielsen, who consented to their minor daughters' marriages.

At the time these marriages took place it was a third degree felony for a parent to consent to a marriage involving a child under the age of 16. Other laws make it a crime to participate in an unlawful marriage.

Here is the applicable section of one law, passed by the Texas Legislature in 2005:

(h) A parent or judicially designated managing conservator or guardian of an applicant commits an offense if the parent, managing conservator, or guardian knowingly provides parental consent under this section for an applicant who is younger than 16 years of age or who is presently married to a person other than the
person the applicant desires to marry. An offense under this subsection is a felony of the third degree."

http://blogs.sltrib.com/plurallife/

 

[Glow]

This is an interesting look at one direction things could possibly go...


It is possible that Teresa’s CASA guardian and her wonderful attorney ad litem have laid the groundwork to have Teresa cut free from Judge Walther’s Court and from CPS. Let us assume that everything, well, almost everything in the CASA report, as reported by the Houston Chronicle and the Deseret News, are factually correct. Particularly that part about Warren Jeffs having married Teresa, at age 15, to an adult man. Bear with me while I quote some Texas Family Code material of which the CASA guardian and the attorney ad item might not have been aware.

All references are to the Texas Family Code as set out in O’Connor’s Family Code 2006–2007.

Sec. 1.101: “….every marriage entered into in this state is presumed to be valid unless….” it is void or voidable as set out in Chapter 6.

Sec. 1.104: “Except as expressly provided by statute or by the constitution, a person, regardless of age, who has been married in accordance with the law of this state has the capacity and power of an adult, including the capacityy to contract.”

Sec. 2.202(a): “The following persons are authorized to conduct a marriage ceremony…a person who is an officer of a religious organization and who is authorized by the organization to conduct a marriage ceremony….”

See Husband v. Pierce, 800 S.W.2d 661, 664 (Tex.App.–Tyler 1990, orig. proceeding). “[E}ven in the absence of a valid marriage license authorizing a marriage ceremony, whether conducted by a person authorized by (sec. 2.202) or not, is nevertheless valid ‘if there was a reasonable appearance of authority by that person, and at least one party to the marriage participated in the ceremony in good faith and that party treats the marriage as valid.’ ”

Sec. 101.003: “‘Child’ or ‘minor’ means a person under 18 years of age who is not and has not been married or who has not had the disabilities of minority removed for general purposes.”

What this all means to me is that if CASA guardian and Malonis are factually correct then Teresa is outta there. The authority of the Court and CPS to exercise control such as that being exercised over Teresa is limited to children. By the plain language of the statute, assuming CASA guardian and Malonis and the Court don’t destroy the report they filed Friday, is that the Court has no right to exercise jurisdiction over Teresa because she is not a child. She is an adult.

What sets me off on a course of uncontrollable guffaws is the fix that the guardian ad litem and attorney ad litem have themselves in. Wow. What the hell were they thinking.

Teresa needs to have her own attorney go into Court Monday morning and file a motion to dismiss for lack of jurisdiction, citing and referring to and attaching as an exhibit the guardian’s report. Teresa doesn’t have to do anything else. She can continue to deny, outside of court or in the court, that she was ever married. If the Judge finds she was, she gets cut loose. If the Judge finds she was not, then we can all have a good belly laugh at this latest F.U. by her appointed guardian and attorney.

http://iperceive.net/teresa-jeffs-casa-times-strike-releases-documents-for-maximum-weekend-effect/

 

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Red words are my opinion

Court guardian: Sect girl wed to man

"It is not in the best interests of Warren Jeffs' 16-year-old daughter to remove the girl's attorney or replace her with one hired by the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, the girl's court-appointed guardian determined Friday.
In documents filed in state district court in Tom Green County, the guardian presented evidence that the girl was married to a 34-year-old sect official just after her 15th birthday and that the ceremony was officiated by her father, the now-jailed leader of the polygamous sect."

And just how is it that these "court documents" got leaked to the public ahead of time for us to be reading about in the newspaper anyhow?

"If (the girl)'s preferences were allowed, it would place her in a dangerous environment and subject her to sexual abuse," according to the report, filed by Court-Appointed Special Advocate Connie Gauwain and obtained by the Standard-Times.
CASA Connie Gauwim fails to recognize that the girl has already been returned to said "environment" and CPS hasn't bothered to go do a physical check on her once.

The report, filed in advance of a scheduled hearing next week to determine whether 51st District Judge Barbara Walther should remove Natalie Malonis as the girl's court-appointed attorney at the girl's request, recommends the judge not do so.

It also concludes that Malonis, a Flower Mound family law attorney who has obtained special restrictions on her client and a restraining order against a sect elder, was correct in taking those actions.
"The circumstances of this case certainly necessitate the attorney ad litem's substituted judgment for her child client," Gauwain wrote.

They throw that word "child" out when it suits them. This "child" turns 18 and will be a legal adult in 12 months. They phrase this as though she is in Kindergarten. Truth is she could get married under Texas law right now if she chose to.

Malonis has argued Jessop coerced or threatened the girl into becoming uncooperative with her and with authorities, while the girl in a letter to Walther and e-mails to Malonis said she wanted a new court-appointed attorney.

"The relationship between me and Teresa has never been as bad as the public thinks," Malonis said Friday. "We talk to each other every day."

According to Teresa Jeffs this is a lie...but we all know the joke about how you can tell when a lawyer is lying...:crazy:

A hearing on the request - filed by Malonis, who said she wants to get a ruling on the matter - was scheduled for Monday but has since been postponed.

The report's purpose is to give Walther a recommendation ahead of that proceeding, said Debra Brown, director of the Tom Green County Children's Advocacy Center, which runs the district court's CASA program.
"We just feel that she's been represented well by the attorney that's been appointed for her," Brown said. "She's got an attorney that's fighting for her."

On Nancy Grace's show and in the media - of all places!

The documents show the ceremony took place July 27, 2006, and seem to imply - but do not explicitly state - that sexual activity occurred as part of the relationship.

Gotta love that wording!

"CASA feels (the girl) would be at risk for continued sexual abuse by Raymond Jessop if there were no orders in place to prevent it," the report states. "Without protective measures, there is a great risk of further sexual abuse."

There is absolutely NO evidence of abuse, so why use the word continued? Again got to wonder about the magical wording.

However here IS a link to a CASA worker who molested over 20 children left in his care..http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=65538 these little girls weren't EVEN 15 they were 3.............and 8 .where is the hoopla over that?

The evidence, which the report states was provided by CPS and law enforcement, seems to provide a measure of vindication for that agency, as well as for Malonis - both of whom have been criticized by the sect and its supporters as unfairly persecuting FLDS followers because of their faith.

One just has to wonder why the state of Texas and "Malonis the mouth" insist on trying this case in the court of public opinion...that is usually done only when the case is too weak to survive on evidence alone.

"I don't look at it as vindication," Malonis said. "I hate that it's come to this. I wish that she had just been left alone, so I could just give her advice and be her attorney. It wasn't supposed to happen like this."

Gauwain's report also criticizes the girl's mother, Annette Jeffs, for failing to protect her daughter from being married to Jessop, and allowing their relationship to continue for the nearly two years until the April raid. Annette Jeffs "appears to show no awareness of a need to protect" the girl, the report states.

And still.....not one CPS visit to the home of Annette Jeffs to check on Teresa OR the other minor children in the home.

It would seem that the court feels that restraining orders are sufficient to keep these "men" away from these "children" thus negating the need to even do a home visit. That's putting an awful lot of trust in a piece of paper isn't it? If the restraining orders are that powerful then why were the children physically removed to start with? CPS could have just handed out pieces of paper.

http://gosanangelo.com/news/2008/ju...ect-girl-wed-to-man/?show_comments=1#comments

 

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A little bit more in depth about the Texas CASA molester...


Texas Court-appointed advocate (CASA) molests up to 20 kids




‘Police have seized video tapes of court-appointed advocate molesting as many as 20 children. He is being charged with aggravated sexual assault of an 8-year-old girl under his care earlier this month.

Billy Dan Carroll, a 53-year-old entrepreneur and founder of a court-reporting firm, filmed himself having sex with several kids between the ages of 3 and 15, the Austin American Statesman reported.

“We don’t know where it is going to end up, how many victims we may end up with,” Austin police Sgt. Brian Loyd said.’

Court-Appointed Special Advocates, or CASAs, work with Child Protective Services and assist in monitoring and mentoring youth. Some are appointed guardian ad litem through court programs.

‘Police have said Carroll served as a court-appointed special advocate for the 8-year-old through volunteering for Court Appointed Special Advocates of Travis County, Texas.

CASA Executive Director Laura Wolf said Wednesday that the agency could not release Carroll’s volunteer application or background information because of confidentiality rules.


So Texas officials are not going to raid his home, take away his children OR leak information from the "sealed files." How nice.

http://www.flds.ws/2008/07/19/texas-court-appointed-advocate-casa-molests-up-to-20-kids/

 

[Glow]

As far as another angle, I guess this qualifies as part of "the rest of the story"...

Remember Rozita Swinton, the fakey phone in caller that started the raid? Well this is the foster mother of Rozita Swinton, she who was so concerned about the effect publicity would have on "the Children," now has her website back up. Supposedly connecting her with her REAL name would be a danger to "the Children."

She took down her website and from what can be told by the new edition, the major difference is the absence of Dr. Peggy Ann Way's name at the site.

Originally the ODD site "recycleddreams.org" had Dr. Peggy Ann Way listed as the site owner. She wasn't of course, and then the site was upgraded to the slightly more truthful disclosure that it was owned by "Kate Rosemary." Kate Rosemary and Mary Catharine Nelson, are one in the same.

Just to refresh your memories. Mary Catharine Nelson/Kate Rosemary is the author of two books that mention Rozita by her first name. Mary took great care to hawk those books when Rozita was first discovered. Then she pulled a Garbo. Then it was discovered that not only did she author those books, but that she owns/manages Published by Westview, the Publishing company. She is also the "source close to" in the article about Rozita that appeared in "the Westview."

http://hughmcbryde.blogspot.com/2008/07/mary-catharine-nelson-update.html