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December 3, 2008 2:42:09 AM CST



Texas Raid Rocks Other Polygamists

Posted May 8, 08 10:40 AM CDT in Crime & Courts US 

(Newser) – The raid on the Texas compound of a polygamist sect has similar communities worried, reports the New York Times. Groups of polygamists belonging to the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints live along the Utah-Arizona border and many fear that the crackdown on their Texas brethren means they could be next as the federal government leans on states to get tough on illegal practices.

"They think they’re going to be next—that there’s so much pressure being brought on me that I’m going to raid them,” said Utah's attorney general. He and his Arizona counterpart plan to address a town hall meeting tonight to inform concerned FLDS members that the states don't plan any mass arrests—but that child abuse in their communities will not be tolerated.

Source New York Times

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Mary Batchelor, director of the advocacy group Principal Voices, left, speaks at a pro-polygamy rally Monday, April 14, 2008, in Salt Lake City.   (AP Photo/Douglas C. Pizac)
Members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints are assisted by law enforcement officials as they board a San Angelo Independent School District bus which is being used to relocate...   (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)
A family photo of a Mormon fundamentalist with his five wives and some of his 29 children.   (Getty Images)
A man demonstrates outside the Utah trial of a polygamist.   (Getty Images)
The raid on an FLDS compound that saw hundreds of women and children removed has polygamist communities in Utah and Arizona worried.   (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)
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