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Ex-FLDS Member Wants Hard Time for Polygamists

Author: Texas hung Eldorado kids out to dry

Jun 23, 09 1:02 PM CDT
(Newser) - Former FLDS member Flora Jessop is “hoping against hope” that the men charged with child abuse at the polygamist compound in Eldorado get harder time than those convicted  in similar crimes elsewhere, she told the Houston Chronicle. “Thirteen days, 45 days, nine months,” says Jessop,... More »

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Texas • Arizona • child abuse • polygamy • Utah • FLDS • Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints • Eldorado • polygamists • child marriage

 Polygamy Sect Struggling for Funds to Battle Charges

Church loses funds as it fights legal battles

May 11, 09 3:23 AM CDT
(Newser) - Members of a cash-strapped Texas polygamous sect plan to argue this week that key evidence against them should be thrown out because it was illegally obtained, the Wall Street Journal reports. Authorities say the diaries, photos, and documents they seized prove that underage marriages took place on the FLDS ranch,... More »

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Texas • crime • sexual abuse • polygamy • FLDS • polygamists • criminal trial

Polygamy Boss Charged With New Sex Rap

Jeffs charged with felony assault
at Texas ranch

Nov 13, 08 4:22 AM CST
(Newser) - Polygamy sect leader Warren Jeffs and three other members of his group have been indicted on fresh felony charges, the Houston Chronicle reports. Jeffs is accused of aggravated sexual assault linked to actions at the Yearning for Zion Texas compound where authorities rounded up hundreds of children earlier this year.... More »

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polygamy • Warren Jeffs • sexual assault • FLDS • Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints • Yearning for Zion ranch

Jeffs' Bride, 14, Ordered Into Foster Care

Parents let daughter marry sect leader at 12, authorities charge

Aug 20, 08 5:44 AM CDT
(Newser) - A Texas judge has ordered a 14-year-old girl allegedly married to polygamous sect leader Warren Jeffs at age 12 back into state custody, reports the Salt Lake Tribune. The judge said the parents of the girl, who was first taken into custody when the sect's compound was raided in April,... More »

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polygamy • Warren Jeffs • child custody • FLDS • Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints • Yearning for Zion ranch





5 More Jailed in Sect Child Abuse

FLDS members charged with sexual assualt, bigamy, concealing child abuse

Jul 29, 08 4:15 AM CDT
(Newser) - Five members of a Texas polygamous sect charged in a child abuse investigation are in custody after surrendering to authorities, the Dallas Morning News reports. Four of the men are charged with sexually abusing girls under the age of 17. The fifth, said to be the physician at the sect's... More »

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Texas • polygamy • Warren Jeffs • FLDS • Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints • Yearning for Zion ranch • polygamists

Sect Leader's Daughter Still in State Custody

As other kids return home, 16-year-old remains in foster care

Jun 3, 08 4:50 PM CDT
(Newser) - The hundreds of kids returned to their FLDS-member parents over the past 2 days did not include one high-profile child: the 16-year-old daughter of sect leader Warren Jeffs. The girl's lawyer pushed to keep her in state custody because she has been sexually abused by an adult sect member—not... More »

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Warren Jeffs • FLDS • Eldorado • sect • polygamists

updated

Sect Parents Reuniting With Kids in Texas

Meanwhile, church elder forbids all underage unions

Jun 2, 08 6:48 PM CDT
(Newser) - As polygamist parents reunited with their kids in Texas today, a sect elder said the church will no longer allow underage marriages. But Willie Jessop called the sect misunderstood and insisted that past unions have all been mutual. Meanwhile, tearful parents held their children outside Texas foster sites after a... More »

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Texas • polygamy • Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints • FLDS • sect • polygamists

update

 Sect Kids Aren't Going Home 

Lawyer objects at last minute to release of 460+ children

May 30, 08 9:51 PM CDT
(Newser) - The parents of children taken from a polygamist ranch in Texas will not see their kids on Monday after all. At the last minute, a lawyer objected to the state's deal with the sect and stopped the judge from ordering the children's release. Now the judge plans to get them... More »

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Texas • polygamy • Warren Jeffs • FLDS • Child Protective Services • Yearning for Zion ranch • Barbara Walther • Texas Supreme Court

 Sect Kids Should Go Home,
 Texas High Court Says 

Justice uphold ruling saying state had no right to take sect children

May 29, 08 4:28 PM CDT
(Newser) - The Texas Supreme Court agreed today that children from a polygamist sect should be returned to their parents, reports the Dallas Morning News. They could be home within days. The ruling leaves state officials with few legal options, though they could try to retain custody of some of the more... More »

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Texas • child abuse • polygamy • FLDS • sect

 Sect Moms Say Kids Scarred 

State blasted ahead of ruling on whether it had right to take custody

May 29, 08 12:39 PM CDT
(Newser) - Taking young children away from their parents has harmful effects, say mothers from the polygamist sect in Texas, and numerous studies agree—which is why federal and state guidelines require a “reasonable effort” to keep children with their parents before removing them. Texas authorities don't appear to have done... More »

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parenting • Texas • polygamy • social services • child custody • FLDS • Yearning for Zion ranch • polygamists

Commentary

Jeffs Photos Used to Bolster Custody Case

Cheap publicity stunt, maybe, but parents of newborn took the bait

May 29, 08 7:41 AM CDT
(Newser) - It was an obvious stunt by Texas child services: entering photos of Warren Jeffs kissing two "child brides" in a custody hearing for a newborn. Reeling from an appeals court ruling that they failed to show that 450 children were at risk, officials wanted to hype the "pervasive"... More »

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Texas • child abuse • Warren Jeffs • child custody • FLDS • Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints • polygamists

12 Children Returned to
Sect Parents

3 families reunited;
not allowed to return
to polygamist ranch

May 24, 08 6:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - Texas has agreed to return a dozen of the children in its custody to their parents, members of the polygamist sect FLDS, but the state is fighting to hang on to hundreds more, the San Antonio Express-News reports. The reunited families won't be allowed to return to the sect's Yearning... More »

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Texas • child custody • FLDS • Child Protective Services • Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints • Yearning for Zion ranch

Texas Appeals to Keep
Sect Kids in Custody

Challenge of ruling means case may go to state supreme court

May 23, 08 2:18 PM CDT
(Newser) - Texas officials today appealed yesterday’s ruling that the state acted incorrectly when it took custody of 460 FLDS children, the San Antonio Express-News reports. The ruling could have meant family reunions within weeks, but today's emergency filing means the children could remain in foster care pending state supreme court... More »

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Texas • FLDS • Child Protective Services • Eldorado • polygamists

Polygamy Kids Could Be Back Home in 10 Days

Texas must appeal surprise ruling or
send children back

May 23, 08 4:57 AM CDT
(Newser) - Yesterday's surprise court ruling in favor of a polygamous sect has Texas authorities scrambling, Time reports. An appeals judge ruled that the state had no right to seize children suspected of being sexually abused from the Yearning for Zion ranch. Officials now must appeal the ruling or return the children... More »

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Texas • US Appeals court • polygamy • child custody • FLDS • Child Protective Services • Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints • Yearning for Zion ranch • polygamists

10 of Sect's 'Child Brides'
Are Adults

But state may return
to ranch to look for more children

May 21, 08 3:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - Texas authorities have admitted that 10 of the "children" taken into custody from the Eldorado polygamist sect are actually adults—including one who is 27—and more could be reclassified this week, reports the Houston Chronicle. This development could weaken the Child Protective Services' case that the sect was... More »

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Texas • FLDS • Child Protective Services • Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints • Yearning for Zion ranch • Eldorado • polygamists

Sect Parents Slam 'Vague' Custody Plans

Decry persecution, say Texas offering no clear way to reclaim kids

May 20, 08 5:53 AM CDT
(Newser) - Hearings for the biggest child custody case in American history began yesterday and members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints weren't happy with proceedings, the AP reports. Parents of the more than 460 children in state custody complained that the court's recommendations were too generalized and... More »

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Texas • polygamy • custody • Mormonism • child custody • FLDS • Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints • Yearning for Zion ranch • polygamists

 Polygamist 'Teen' Gives Birth 

Sect member has her third child in state custody

May 13, 08 4:09 AM CDT
(Newser) - Another young woman taken from a Texas polygamist sect has given birth while in state custody. The mom has claimed to be 22 years old, but state officials say she is only 17, reports the Salt Lake Tribune. More »

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polygamy • FLDS • Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints • Yearning for Zion ranch • Department of Family and Protective Services • Louisa Bradshaw Jessop • Rulan Danial Jessop • Rod Parker • polygamists

 DNA Tests on Polygamists Begin 

Officials seek foster home for 416 children

Apr 21, 08 4:37 AM CDT
(Newser) - Texas officials begin taking DNA samples today from 416 children removed from a  polygamist sect and from adults who lived with them. The tests will be used to sort out the parentage of the children in the confusing mix of families with multiple mothers on the sprawling Eldorado ranch, reports... More »

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marriage • sexual abuse • child custody • FLDS • Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints • Yearning for Zion ranch • San Angelo • Barbara Walther

 Texas Keeps Sect
 Kids for DNA Testing 

Polygamous ranch forced children to obey, psychiatrist testifies

Apr 18, 08 8:20 PM CDT
(Newser) - A judge ruled today that 416 kids seized at a polygamous ranch in Texas will be held for genetic testing, the San Angelo Standard-Times reports. At the end of a 2-day custody hearing, Judge Barbara Walther said the tests were needed to sort out relationships between the sect's parents and... More »

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polygamy • Warren Jeffs • psychiatrist • FLDS • Child Protective Services • Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints • San Angelo • expert testimony

Outside Sect, Life is Tough

Free from polygamous compounds, escaped women often turn to drugs and alcohol

Apr 17, 08 6:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - Even for those women who escape the forced marriages and controlling patriarchy of polygamous sects like the Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints, life isn’t easy. Many turn to drugs and alcohol to escape the mental burden, CNN reports. And some never leave because they’re programmed to think... More »

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drugs • alcohol • polygamy • programming • rescue • Warren Jeffs • cult • FLDS • Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints • brainwashing

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