Links [updated 10/6]

[walton]

http://www.statesman.com/news/content/region/legislature/stories/05/16/0516eldoradocosts.html

The massive child welfare operation that began in early April with a state raid of a West Texas ranch owned by a polygamous sect cost nearly $7.5 million in the first 19 days, according to records from Gov. Rick Perry's office.

[walton]

http://bankingonheaven.com/

BANKING ON HEAVEN is the inside story of the largest polygamous enclave in the United States, written, produced, and narrated by Laurie Allen, who escaped a similar polygamous sect at age sixteen.

Watch the trailer.

[walton]

http://thehopeorg.org/

The HOPE Organization


The HOPE Organization is a non-profit group dedicated to assisting survivors of abuse within polygamous relationships
on their courageous journey to personal freedom.

Many many stories here. Check the tabs way up on top of the page.

[LLaFren]

Has anyone PM'd CW yet about the lost thread? There were several threads on there that I had not yet had time to read.

If you have PM me and I'll leave CW alone, otherwise I'll PM.

LL

[walton]

http://www.sltrib.com/polygamy

Brooke Adams has been covering the Polygamy issues for years. She has just about everything here.

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

Polygamy leadership tree: http://extras.sltrib.com/specials/polygamy/PolygamyLeaders.pdf


Much much more at the top link.

[KatyDid]

Church records offer rare look inside polygamist families

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/P/POLYGAMISTS_FAMILY_TREE?SITE=MIDTN&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

http://tinyurl.com/3nl3qs

[KatyDid]

http://www.wivesofjosephsmith.org/

A biography of Joseph Smith's wives. VERY interesting to read their own documentation about their lives as polygamist wives.

[walton]

http://www.rickross.com/groups/polygamy.html

This page contains information The Rick A. Ross Institute has
gathered about Polygamist Groups.


http://www.rickross.com/
An Internet archive of information about cults, destructive cults, controversial groups and movements. The Rick A. Ross Institute of New Jersey (RI) is a nonprofit public resource with a vast archive that contains thousands of individual documents.



There are many stories here concerning not only this cult but other cults as well.

[KatyDid]

Attorney objects to book by witness in Jeffs trial

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/P/POLYGAMIST_LEADER_BOOK?SITE=MIDTN&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

http://tinyurl.com/4j9m4e

(just in case the long link doesn't work)

[KatyDid]

Polygamist sect's finances are murky

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/P/POLYGAMISTS_FINANCES?SITE=MIDTN&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

http://tinyurl.com/4og3yo
(just in case the long link doesn't work)

[walton]

http://myeldorado.net/

contains the Bishops list, civil citations and letters the FLDS have written to Gov. Perry, Gov. Huntsman etc.

[walton]

http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2003-12-25/news/double-exposure/full

Fundamentalist Mormon prophet Warren Jeffs came close to getting arrested over the last year because the Utah Attorney General's Office believed he wanted disobedient teenager Vanessa Rohbock sacrificed to the Lord in a religious ritual called Blood Atonement.

[walton]

http://www.rickross.com/reference/polygamy/polygamy917.html

On the outskirts of Las Vegas, _Warren Jeffs, the prophet and leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, the polygamist sect of Mormonism known as the F.L.D.S., barreled down Interstate 15 in a red Cadillac Escalade. Driving him was Isaac Jeffs, one of his dozen or so brothers. Naomi Jeffs-a beautiful 32-year-old blond with hair to her knees who was both Warren's former stepmother and the wife he reportedly called 91-rode in back. They carried $57,000 in cash in the lining of a suitcase, 16 cell phones, 12 pairs of sunglasses, four laptops, three wigs, a fistful of keys to other luxury vehicles, and a cache of handwritten letters addressed to "the Prophet."



Really good article.

[walton]

http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_9283126

Mohave County Superior Court Judge Steven Conn heard arguments from both defense and prosecuting attorneys "and has taken the matters under advisement," stated a news release from the Mohave County Attorney's Office. Conn will rule in the matter by minute order, the release stated. A defense motion seeking medical records is also pending.

[KatyDid]

http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2005-12-29/news/forbidden-fruit/

Forbidden Fruit

Inbreeding among polygamists along the Arizona-Utah border is producing a caste of severely retarded and deformed children
By John Dougherty
Published on December 29, 2005

Fifteen years ago, a strange-looking child suffering from severe physical maladies and acute retardation was brought into the office of Dr. Theodore Tarby.



Interview with doctor that treated many of the children with fumarase deficiency.

[KatyDid]

http://attorneygeneral.utah.gov/cmsdocuments/The_Primer.pdf

Page 45:
Psychological Impact on Women and Children
by Dr Larry Beall, Clinical Director of the Trauma Awareness and Treatment Center in Salt Lake City.

He has provided professional services for numerous women and children who chose to leave polygamy.

[KatyDid]

http://www.i4m.com/think/polygamy/index.html

a compilation of numerous documents regarding polygamy and Joseph Smith.

[KatyDid]

http://people.howstuffworks.com/polygamy1.htm


The Dark Side of Polygamy
It's almost impossible to find hard statistics about polygamy, because plural marriages are rarely documented. Many Mormon fundamentalist sects are closed communities that shun contact with non-members. So it's difficult to determine the frequency of abuses such as marrying minors, marriages between close relatives or physical and sexual abuse. However, a wealth of anecdotal evidence suggests that these abuses often occur.
In addition to such traumatic abuses, people who have left (or, in their words, "escaped") polygamist families point out that the structure of such families crushes female independence. Husbands are absolute authorities, and wives and children are completely subservient to them. Because wives are so dependent on their husband and the other wives, they often lack the life skills to live on their own. This makes it especially difficult to leave. In addition, many polygamist wives were born and raised in polygamist families. They have been in the polygamist lifestyle from birth, so they have a hard time seeing a way out.


http://people.howstuffworks.com/polygamy2.htm

[KatyDid]

http://www.apologeticsindex.org/122-polygamy-research-resources

A plethora of links and information at this website.

[walton]

http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/04/17/polygamy.pentagon/

The U.S. government paid more than $1.7 million in defense contracts over the last decade to companies owned by leaders of Warren Jeffs' polygamous sect, with tens of thousands allegedly winding its way back to Jeffs and his church.

The Pentagon had contracts with three companies with ties to Warren Jeffs' polygamous sect.

In fact, some of the deals were made after Jeffs was named to the FBI's "Most-Wanted List" and remained in place while he was on the run.

CNN has learned that between 1998 and 2007, the United States Air Force and Defense Logistics Agency purchased more than $1.7 million worth of airplane parts from three companies owned by members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which practices polygamy.

[walton]

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4188/is_20060223/ai_n16176673

giant green patch stands out from the surrounding Nevada desert. And the greenery may be an important source of revenue for the church led by fugitive polygamist Warren Jeffs.

Over the past two years, families linked to Jeffs have quietly begun operating a large hay farm in a remote valley 30 miles north of Pioche, Nev. Investigators are trying to figure out if farm equipment, and even buildings, have been illegally moved there from the Utah-Arizona border.

A former insider says he believes the Nevada operation, known as Atlanta Farms, was launched with the approval and direction of Jeffs. "It's all his doing," said Sterling Harker.

[walton]

http://www.adl.org/learn/ext_us/Little_Shell.asp?LEARN_Cat=Extremism&LEARN_SubCat=Extremism_in_America&xpicked=3&item=little_shell

Law enforcement officers and public officials around the country are encountering members of a new and active anti-government extremist group that calls itself the "Little Shell Pembina Band of North America." Members of the group claim that they belong to a "sovereign" Native American tribe and therefore are not subject to laws and regulations; in reality, the "Little Shell Pembina Band" is part of the anti-government "sovereign citizen" movement. Its members' activities range from driving with bogus license plates to perpetrating insurance fraud schemes to tax evasion.


http://blogs.sltrib.com/plurallife/archives/2006_06_01_archive.htm Brookes blog entry June 29, 2006

You may remember that in May, Terrill Johnson, interim mayor of Colorado City, was arrested during a town council meeting for fraudulent vehicle registration.

Apparently, skipping over the border to register vehicles may not be the only way a few residents in the polygamous community at the Utah/Arizona border try to avoid paying state taxes.

A couple of residents apparently have bought membership in the so-called "Little Shell Pembina Band of North America" in an attempt to gain protection from state laws under its "sovereign nation" claim.

[walton]

http://www.xmission.com/~plporter/lds/kingston.htm From 1998

A young girl's desperate attempt to flee a polygamous marriage to her uncle has put the Kingston clan where it doesn't want to be: in the public spotlight.

The "organization, as insiders refer to it, has maintained a remarkably low profile in Utah at the same time it has built a financial empire that ranks it among Utah's most sizable corporations. Various reports have estimated the Kingston holdings at $150 million to $170 million.

But one source intimately familiar with the Kingston organization's inner workings - and who asked to remain unnamed out of fear of reprisals from the family - says an oft-published $170 million figure is laughably low.

[walton]

http://dir.salon.com/story/mwt/hot/1998/07/28/28hot/

Last week a judge in Brigham City, Utah, ordered John Daniel Kingston, a prominent member of a polygamist group, to stand trial for the recent assault of his 16-year-old daughter. Kingston, a vice president in a Salt Lake City accounting and auditing firm, allegedly beat his daughter unconscious because she did not want to be the 15th wife of his brother, her own uncle, in a marriage arranged by Kingston, 43.

At the pretrial hearing, the teenager -- who is not being identified and is now in foster care -- testified that on May 24 her father took her to a remote family ranch near the Idaho border, ordered her into a barn and made her take off her jacket, then whipped her with his belt at least 28 times for rebelling against the arranged marriage to David O. Kingston, a blood relative twice her age.

[walton]

http://bulk.resource.org/courts.gov/c/F2/934/934.F2d.326.88-2433.88-2516.88-2435.89-4095.89-4090.html

In the early morning hours of January 16, 1988, a stake house owned by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints at Marion, Utah, was extensively damaged when a dynamite device exploded inside it. Addam admitted that he had created the device, placed it in the building, and set it to explode. After setting the device, Addam returned to the Singer property located approximately one mile east of the stake house where he observed the explosion with others residing at the property. Addam resided at the property with his wives, Vickie's daughters (Charlotte and Heidi), Jonathan, Vickie, Timothy, and six children.



Please read more at the link.

[evalles]

photos of Elissa Wall and Allen Steed after their "marriage" from the trials's Evidence - 1 Black Photo Binder released September 25, 2007

http://www.childbrides.org/Black_Binder.pdf


Read the "M.J." Settlement Agreement with the UEP Trust presented to Bruce Wisan on May 17, 2007 and publically released on September 21, 2007

http://www.childbrides.org/settlementagreement0001.pdf

[walton]

http://www.bismarcktribune.com/series/kahl/

Fifteen ticks, 15 tocks.

Tick-tock, tick-tock.

Thirty seconds that lasted forever. Thirty seconds soaked in blood.

Six men were shot and two were killed in a gunfight that nobody wanted to happen but some saw as inevitable. Lead pierced bone and ruined lives. The shots tore through a security blanket that had coddled an entire state.

The stage was a roadblock on an empty stretch of highway just north of Medina, bathed in the last light of dusk. It was a clear Sunday evening, just before six, warm for February. Federal lawmen from Bismarck and Fargo were there to arrest a man for a misdemeanor probation violation. Maybe you remember his name. If you live around here you do.

Gordon Kahl.

Kahl didn't want to be arrested. His son, Yorie Kahl, and friend Scott Faul were with him. They aimed rifles at the lawmen. The lawmen aimed back.

http://www.adl.org/learn/ext_us/Little_Shell.asp?LEARN_Cat=Extremism&LEARN_SubCat=Extremism_in_America&xpicked=3&item=little_shell

Ronald Brakke (Tribal Spokesman). Brakke is a long-time sovereign citizen activist from North Dakota. According to a colleague, he is an "expert on banking, credit, mortgage and entitlement." During the 1980s, Brakke, once a farmer, was involved with Posse Comitatus-style groups that promoted fictitious financial instruments, bogus trusts and similar schemes. In 1991, he was convicted for theft after harvesting crops on property owned by a bank.

[lotty]

http://www.bcmmin.org/polyg3.html

MORMON POLYGAMY - FROM MEN AND FOR MEN?
INTRODUCTION
At times members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will defend their church's practice of polygamy in the past (about 1832-1890) by saying there was a shortage of husbands therefor some took on more than one wife. Others have said polygamy was practiced to provide a husband for older women. Are these true? Did those that practiced polygamy take their direction from the standard works, their Scriptures? The answer to both of these questions is, "No."
John Farkas

IMO an interesting read.

[KatyDid]

Regarding the census count during the time polygamy was initiated as a religious practice by Joseph Smith.

http://www.i4m.com/think/polygamy/utah_census.htm

"One of the most popular explanations in the LDS church about polygamy is the notion that polygamy became necessary because there was a surplus of women and a shortage of men. This common belief by uninformed Mormons is complete nonsense, and is not true.

The Utah Historical Society includes population statistics in their library. The source for these statistics is the United States Bureau of Census.

Utah population:
1850 total 11,380 male 6,046 female 5,334
1860 total 40,273 male 20,255 female 20,018
1870 total 86,786 male 44,121 female 42,665
1880 total 143,963 male 74,509 female 68,454
1890 total 210,779 male 111,975 female 98,804
1900 total 276,749 male 141,687 female 135,062

The census figures after the periods listed above are irrelevant, but it's interesting to note that there were more males than females in Utah from the early settlement until the 1960 census."

[walton]

http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?pid=878

It's a tough town for Engels. The police are followers of Jeffs and are not warm to Engels' presence among them. They follow him regularly, and they carry guns.

Rumors about a cave in the cliffs filled with a stockpile of weapons have been circulating for years. The cave exists, but Engels can't say for sure what's inside. He does offer this: "We do know that in 1982, 150 assault rifles were brought here as well as a few hundred thousand rounds of ammunition."

What happened to the weapons is unclear.

[lotty]

http://extras.sltrib.com/specials/polygamy/Timeline.asp

1928
The first polygamists move to Short Creek, enticed by its isolation.

1935
J. Leslie Broadbent dies. John Y. Barlow is named his successor, causing a rift with those who believed Elden Kingston was next in line. Kingston leaves to start his own group.

John Y. Barlow moves to Short Creek to establish a United Order, in which polygamists share resources. That same year, Arizona authorities raid the town and arrest six polygamists, two of whom are imprisoned.
...
2004
FLDS leader expells 21 men from church



__________________________________________
http://www.polygamy-faq.com/chronology.php
Polygamy
The Mormon Enigma
A Chronology of Modern Polygamy

JMO This timeline runs through 2007.

[lotty]

http://www.watchman.org/old_wf/assets/files/flds_profile.pdf

Fundamentalist Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS)

[KatyDid]

The latest on tomorrow's hearings in Texas:

http://www.sltrib.com/polygamy/ci_9295315

Hearings begin Monday
Attorneys want FLDS children treated as individuals in court
Texas officials claim sect supports systemic abuse

By Brooke Adams
The Salt Lake Tribune

Article Last Updated: 05/18/2008 12:32:13 AM MDT


The Jessop family in 2007. Left to right, Ziana, Joseph Sr., Joseph Edson, Lori, and Joseph Jr. The state of Texas has conceded Lori Jessop is an adult, and is allowing her to stay with her children, who are in the custody of Texas child welfare officials. PRNewsFoto (PRNewsFoto)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.

[walton]

http://www.religionnewsblog.com/9696/the-battle-for-bountiful

The battle for control of the fundamentalist church has torn a swath through Jane Blackmore’s fragile new life. A slight, intense 48-year-old with jet-black hair and sad, dark eyes, she sits in her Cranbrook home — 90 minutes and a world apart from her past as the first of an estimated 26 wives of Winston Blackmore. She is a nurse and, until her recent divorce from Blackmore, she served as midwife in Bountiful, a role she still fills on occasion. She has admitted in the past to aiding births for mothers as young as 15. She’s delivered many of her ex-husband’s estimated 80 children by other wives. These aren’t subjects for today, she says firmly. If authorities do investigate Bountiful, she says, “I’ll be willing to do my part.” Jane left her husband, lost her faith and walked away from the cloistered world of Bountiful, but it is the disappearance of her 23-year-old daughter Susie and her young grandsons that most troubles her.

Susie, like most teen girls in Bountiful, and like Jane herself, married young to a man assigned by the church. Her appointed husband was Ben Johnson, a devout fundamentalist whom Susie, then 17, hadn’t met. “She flew with her father to Salt Lake City, met him and married him five minutes later,” says Jane. They settled in Colorado City, where Johnson later took a second wife. Trouble began when Jeffs gained control of the church. Johnson is an ardent follower.

[walton]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,230711,00.html

Prosecutors allege the bride, who is referred to in court documents as Jane Doe No. 4, told Jeffs she didn't want to marry — she believed she was too young. Later, she begged to be released from the union, saying she didn't like marital relations.

But Jeffs said the marriage was her religious duty and threatened her with the loss of her salvation, court documents state.

[walton]

http://www.rickross.com/reference/polygamy/polygamy440.html

A southern Texas ranch owned by a Utah-based fundamentalist religious sect is facing more than $34,000 in fines for environmental violations related to construction on the property.

Documents obtained by The Associated Press show the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality has filed two separate enforcement actions against YFZ Land LLC, the holding company that owns the 1,691-acre ranch near Eldorado, Texas.

[walton]

http://www.rickross.com/reference/polygamy/polygamy817.html

Kauffman and Laurie Allen, who escaped from polygamy, drove around one such community, in Colorado City, Ariz., and saw many mammoth homes built to accommodate multiple wives and children.

How the man of the house can afford to build such super-sized dwellings! The answer: He can't. He doesn't pay for them, you do.

As Allen explained to Kauffman, "What happens is a man marries one wife, she's his legal wife, then he marries ten other wives in the church, and all the other wives are, by law, single women, so they have all these children with him, and they all get welfare."

[walton]

http://www.rickross.com/reference/polygamy/polygamy772.html

Hoole represents Johnny Jessop, who sued Jeffs in hopes of being reunited with his mother, Elsie Jessop. The teen spoke with his mother several times after filing his lawsuit last year, but has had no contact with her since.

"He just wants to be back with his mom," Hoole said of Jessop, 19. "There is only one person who can do that."

[walton]

http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_5778176

Story originally published April 29, 2007
For seven months, Wendell Musser served in Warren S. Jeffs' inner circle, working as a courier and family caretaker for wives of the fugitive polygamous sect leader. Musser's clandestine "mission" had a story line drawn from a spy novel. There were midnight rides to secret locations; shifting hideouts; disposable phones; high-tech tracking equipment; a fleet of expensive vehicles; disguises.


http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0705/17/acd.01.html

TUCHMAN (voice-over): Warren Jeffs is now in jail, awaiting trial. He's accused of arranging marriages of young girls to men. He's pleaded not guilty to the charges against him.

But for those still devoted for the church, devotion to Jeffs, who they believe is a prophet, often takes precedence over one's own flesh and blood.

(on camera) Do the officials in the church know where she is?

MUSSER: Yes, they do.

TUCHMAN: And what do they tell you when you say you want to be brought back to your wife?

MUSSER: They tell me to walk away. To -- that they're not mine, that they've been placed to another man.

TUCHMAN (voice-over): Musser says he has 45 brothers and sisters and three mothers. And he had a special relationship with Warren Jeffs.

MUSSER: He is my uncle, my real uncle. My mother is his sister.

TUCHMAN: In the winter of 2005, he received a phone call from the so-called prophet, who Musser estimates has around 180 wives.

[walton]

http://www.rickross.com/reference/polygamy/polygamy595.html

Johnny, a so-called Lost Boy ordered out of Hildale five years ago, has written Jeffs several letters pleading for help.



"I don't know what I did that was so bad as a 13-year-old to be forever cut off from my family," Johnny wrote in the first letter, sent a day after Thanksgiving. "I know that you alone have the ability to allow her to see me again. . . . All I want is to see her and be her son."

[walton]

http://www.rickross.com/reference/polygamy/polygamy321.html

Gideon puts it this way: "Once you leave or you're kicked out, no one gives a damn about you."

Dan Barlow even inspected their home during a brief meeting, telling them "it seemed like a good opportunity for his son," says Neil Glauser, a developer. "He said he wasn't in a position to help."

Or was he?

Drawing funds: In November, the Glausers had Gideon apply for a Medicaid card so he could get health and dental care. That's when they say a caseworker told them Dan Barlow was drawing Social Security funds in his son's name.

Social Security allows retirement age people such as Dan Barlow to collect a stipend to help support children ages 16 or younger who still live at home. They're supposed to file reports explaining how the money is used.

[xray ra]

http://www.drhull.com/EncyMaster/*/bone_age.html

It would seem that this test could determine the ages of all the children within a latitude of a few months.

It can be used until full growth is reached, usually the late teens or early twenties.

Seems like a useful tool for LE and CPS.

edit: sorry my link was bad I will google "bone age tests" again and retry.

Where the asterisk is in the address, should be a capital bee. I have found on this board that particular letter always defaults to an asterisk.
HELP???? Walton???

[xray ra]

For any one interested, if you delete the asterisk and type a capital bee, the address is good.

Whew:)

[lotty]

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-sect13may13,1,7662303.story?page=4&track=rss
Where Few Dare to Disobey
May 13 2006

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-sect12may12,0,3267921.story
THE ENCLAVE: PART ONE
Blind Eye to Culture of Abuse
By David Kelly and Gary Cohn, Times Staff Writers
May 12, 2006

http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/la-na-sect13may13,0,7254129,full.story
THE ENCLAVE: PART TWO
Where Few Dare to Disobey
By David Kelly and Gary Cohn, Times Staff Writers
May 13, 2006

[lotty]

http://www.dailycamera.com/news/2008/may/17/judge-considers-dropping-incest-charges-against/

Judge considers dropping incest charges against Warren Jeffs
By Chris Kahn, Associated Press
Saturday, May 17, 2008

[lotty]

http://www.bismarcktribune.com/articles/2008/04/20/news/state/153789.txt
Former sect member: Pringle, S.D., a stepping stone to Texas ranch
Apr 20, 2008 - 04:05:09 CDT
Wyler said he was at a meeting of FLDS leaders in the 1990s at which then-church leader Rulon Jeffs, Jeffs' father, urged the sect to take a proposed deal from the state to abandon underage marriages in exchange for amnesty for any past crimes involving underage marriages.

Warren Jeffs, who soon thereafter took control of the sect, rejected the deal and defiantly went on a spree of performing underage marriages, according to Wyler.

[lotty]

http://www.bycommonconsent.com/2008/04/a-diabolical-high-pressure-marriage/
“A Diabolical, High Pressure Marriage”
By: Kevin Barney - April 27, 2008
It is helpful in understanding the development of FLDS placement marriage to consider the secret 1948 marriage of Louis Barlow, a tale which Marianne Watson recounts based on the journals of her grandfather, Joseph Lyman Jessop (she has changed the names of most people still living, except for public figures like Warren Jeffs.)

[walton]

http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=3202636

The family of a wealthy southern Utah man who comes from a long line of polygamists has made shocking allegations of incest.

The adult sons of Ross LeBaron, Jr. accuse him of fathering several children with his own daughter because of his beliefs about the reincarnation of Jesus Christ. LeBaron denies the accusations, but his sons say they've collected DNA evidence to back up their claims of incest.

David Uri LeBaron, the son of Ross LeBbaron, Jr., says, "We've done DNA testing. We know what's going on, and we're here to find a way to put an end to it."

[walton]

http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/05/19/polygamist.retreat/index.html

Because the travel to visit her children is taking so much of her time, Jeffs said she could not meet with officials to help make the plan. Still, she said, she will try to comply if it would return her children to her.

"I agree to follow all recommendations so long as they don't conflict with my religious beliefs," Jeffs said.

The judge voiced some concern about her response.

"We all know why we are here. You have a right to religious freedom up until the point where it breaks the law," Gossett said.

[lotty]

The other FLDS website...

http://www.truthwillprevail.org/

[lotty]

http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/253408
Update On The FLDS Custody Hearing Regarding the Children of the YFZ Ranch
Posted Apr 18, 2008 by Sue D.

[lotty]

http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/254900
Status Hearings Start For FLDS Children: 100 Children Not Matched To Mothers
Posted May 19, 2008 by Sue D.

[lotty]

http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=2709009
Photos suggest FLDS contractors using child labor
February 21st, 2008 @ 10:15pm
John Hollenhorst reporting

Rival contractors sometimes call it slave labor, kids of polygamists working far below the legal age. Under most circumstances, that's 16 for construction and 18 for dangerous tasks. Other contractors say they see kid workers all the time, and it drains dollars away from them to the FLDS Church.

[lotty]

Another petition...this one in support of the State of Texas. I'll put the other one up as well. Geesh, losing the last link thread stinks.

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/support-texas-in-taking-flds-children

[lotty]

http://www.connorboyack.com/blog/flds-petition-results
FLDS Petition Results
Posted by Connor on April 20th, 2008
Today has been an interesting day, full of interviews with various media outlets. Having reached 1,000 signatures in the petition I organized, I issued a press release to various journalists and media outlets.

[dsmith]

http://www.sltrib.com/

Parents object to ban on books, Jeffs' pics

FLDS parents again objected Tuesday to Texas Child Protective Services' ban on religious literature or photographs of polygamous sect leader Warren S. Jeffs.
"The problem we have is discussing him in the context of him being the prophet or his specific teachings because he is a convicted sex offender," said Marissa Gonzales, a CPS spokeswoman.

[cloe23]

http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2008/images/05/22/texas.court.pdf

[spirit07]

Commentary: Appellate court wrong on FLDS
May 23, 2008
Sunny Hostin is a legal analyst on CNN's "American Morning."


http://edition.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/05/23/flds.appeals/index.html


NEW YORK (CNN) -- It sounds like legal mumbo-jumbo.


... Isn't this a polygamist ranch we are talking about? Under Texas law, it's illegal to be married to more than one person. Weren't all of these children living on a ranch purchased in 2003 and built by Warren Jeffs, the self-proclaimed prophet of the group, who was convicted last year in Utah of being an accomplice to rape?

Yes they were.

Weren't there 20 girls living at the ranch who had become pregnant between the ages of 13 and 17 and "spiritually married" to old men picked for them by Jeffs or his followers?

Yes there were.

And if you live on this ranch, don't you believe in polygamy, arranged marriages between young girls and old men, and that Jeffs is a prophet?

I would think so.

(more in article)

[spirit07]

Warren Jeffs Gives 12-Year-Old Girl Wedding-Style Kiss

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/deborah-king/warren-jeffs-gives-12-yea_*_103666.html


This one has lots of photos: Jeffs with both Merrianne and Loretta. I guess Merrianne is 12 or 13, look on page 3, she looks about 9-11 to me.

The Kiss Of Jeffs:Creepy photos of jailed FLDS sect leader released in custody battle

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2008/0527081flds1.html

[lotty]

http://www.religionnewsblog.com/14095/abandoned-by-flds-hildale-sinks-into-debt
Abandoned by FLDS, Hildale sinks into debt
The Salt Lake Tribune, USA
Mar. 26, 2006
Brooke Adams
Sect leader says city done: Followers, jobs flee with almost $21M owed on plant and cash scarce

HILDALE - Given his city’s financial straits, Hildale Mayor David Zitting remains remarkably unruffled.

[spirit07]

Late deal by CPS keeps sect girls off witness stand over their alleged abuse

San Antonio Express-News, via the Houston Chronicle, USA
May 28, 2008
Lisa Sandberg

http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21539/flds-sect-girls

CPS officials contend that at least one of the girls summoned to testify was “spiritually” married when she was 11 to the sect’s “prophet,” Warren Jeffs, was related to Dan Jessop and lived for a time in the same building as the Jessop couple. The girl is now 13 ...

... In a legal brief filed Tuesday, the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services argued that the mothers of 124 children affected by the ruling would be likely to flee the state and take refuge in the sect’s home turf on the Utah-Arizona border.

The agency’s lawyers also argued that without the children, due to the “conspiracy of silence and obfuscation of the alleged mothers,” state authorities would be “unable to identify and remove the sexual predators who impregnated numerous underage children at the YFZ Ranch.

[SavannahStar]

State filed second Petition for Writ of Mandamus and second Motion or Emergency Stay. Second Petition for Mandamus:

http://www.supreme.courts.state.tx.us/ebriefs/08/08040301.pdf

Second Emergency Motion for Stay

http://www.supreme.courts.state.tx.us/ebriefs/08/08040302.pdf

[walton]

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/05/22/48hours/main4120479.shtml

CBS) CBS News delves into the clandestine world of polygamy and the FLDS in a 48 Hours special with insider accounts, harrowing escape stories, interviews with law enforcement officials and an explosive interview with high-ranking FLDS member Willie Jessop

Check out the videos: http://www.cbsnews.com/sections/i_video/main500251.shtml?id=4132150n

[lotty]

http://www.usatoday.com/news/religion/2008-04-17-polygamist-mormon-sect_N.htm

Analysis: Fundamentalist Mormons stress polygamy above all

By Kimberly Winston, Religion News Service

[walton]

http://www.outofpolygamy.com/justiceforjohnny.html

Additionally, according to Ms. JESSOP and other sources, one of the eyewitnesses to the death was CHARLES ZITTING. Mr. ZITTING had become a friend of Mr. NICHOLSON'S two months prior to the fatal incident. Following Mr. NICHOLSON'S death, Mr. ZITTING "inherited" or was given Mr. NICHOLSON'S new pick-up truck. The only item the family received from Mr. NICHOLSON Jr.'s personal effects through the police was the rope involved in the situation. The rope was released to the family and was promptly burned by Mr. NICHOLSON'S father, JOHN S. NICHOLSON, in a bonfire.

Another suspicion lies in the immediate cleaning of Mr. NICHOLSON Jr.'s room. Those close to Mr. NICHOLSON Jr. stated that his room was typically unkempt, but immediately after his death, his room was cleaned to a "spotless" condition.

Just prior to his death, Mr. NICHOLSON, Jr. was working for LESLIE JEFFS, the brother of WARREN JEFFS. LESLIE JEFFS owned a trucking business, and Mr. NICHOLSON, Jr. was reportedly driving to and from Texas. Mr. NICHOLSON had some kind of dispute with LESLIE JEFFS and had lost his job. It is currently unknown what kind of dispute cost Mr. NICHOLSON, Jr. his job. Coincidently, LESLIE JEFFS had been associated with the sexual abuse of BRENT JEFFS.

** check out the videos**

http://www.outofpolygamy.com/video.html

[lotty]

http://www.wwrn.org/article.php?idd=26801&con=4&sec=26
"Records say FLDS boss tried suicide"

by Brooke Adams and Mark Havnes ("Salt Lake Tribune," November 7, 2007)

Salt Lake City, USA - Polygamous sect leader Warren S. Jeffs attempted to hang himself in January while jailed in the Purgatory Correctional Facility, newly released court documents show.

[lotty]

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/category/story.cfm?c_id=30&objectid=10510531&pnum=0


How did Polygamist sect turn $917,000 into $26.9 million?
11:00AM Friday May 16, 2008
By Michelle Roberts

TEXAS - In just five years, the West Texas polygamist sect now accused of abusing children and forcing under-age girls to marry older men transformed 1,700 acres (688 hectares) of scrub land purchased for US$700,000 ($917,000) into a bustling ranch with a blazing-white limestone temple, sprawling three-story log cabins, woodworking shops and a dairy.

[lotty]

http://www.macleans.ca/article.jsp?content=20041213_94591_94591

The battle for Bountiful
Religion; Polygamy, radicalism and a fight for hearts and minds: a Mormon sect's power struggle
KEN MacQUEEN | Dec 13, 2004

[lotty]

http://extras.mnginteractive.com/live/media/site297/2008/0530/20080530_072111_tsc%20decision.pdf

Texas Supreme Court: Majority opinion






http://extras.mnginteractive.com/live/media/site297/2008/0530/20080530_072146_tsc%20dissent.pdf

Texas Supreme Court: Minority opinion

[walton]

http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2008/05/30/is-the-flds-voting-for-payback/

FLDS members are now grabbing up voter registration forms in hopes of sending hundreds of new voters to the polls. That’s a concern for local residents here in Schleicher County where there are only 1,900 registered voters.

“This is the only thing the only thing you have to stop what’s happening going forward” said Willie Jessop, an FLDS member and spokesman.

[walton]

http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_9436365

Brigham Young is widely known as the polygamist leader of the Mormon church who established a theocracy here in 1847 after fleeing religious persecution in Illinois.
But don't look for many signs of that at the Utah Capitol, where a 10-foot-tall, 1,500 pound statue of the former territorial governor was put on display Friday after more than four years in storage during renovation of the Capitol.
Instead, a three-sentence biography makes only a passing reference to the state's early conflict with the federal government over polygamy and Young's role in it.
''Acting on rumors that the Mormons were rebelling against federal authority, (President) James Buchanan replaced Young as governor in 1857,'' the biography reads in part.
There's no mention of Young's 56 wives or the preparations he made to go to war against federal troops who came to install a new governor and quash polygamy.

[lotty]

http://www.azfamily.com/sharedcontent/southwest/azfamily/features/polygamy/?nTar=OPUR&iq_id=5612711

POLYGAMY DIARIES

A collection of videos by journalist Mike Watkiss.

[evalles]

New article on Rozita Swinton

http://www.sltrib.com/contents/ci_9439383

[Details]

http://www.click2houston.com/news/16471747/detail.html?subid=10100242
One mother was so excited to see her children, she ran for the door at Kidz Harbor in Liverpool, Texas.
...
Children took the belongings they accumulated while staying at Kidz Harbor for more than a month, including tricycles, fishing poles and blankets.
...
The children seemed to be attached to workers here.

"I love Kidz Harbor," said one little girl.
...
Jessop said he wanted to "clarify" the church's marriage policy.

"They will not consent to underage marriage," he said.
....

[lotty]

http://www.sltrib.com/polygamy/ci_3804592
Warren Jeffs: A wanted man
For 22 years, he was Alta Academy's principal. For the past four years, FLDS faithful have called him a prophet. Today, he is on the FBI's most wanted list. What went wrong?

Brooke Adams
The Salt Lake Tribune
Article Last Updated: 08/30/2007 03:16:33 PM MDT


At Alta Academy, the private school once run by Warren S. Jeffs, each day began with an hourlong devotional that included hymns, scripture reading and sermons.
But never the Pledge of Allegiance.

[Vinnie]

Walton linked to this site on a thread that is now closed, so I'm posting it here because it is so dynamic. This site shows photos of young boys working construction for Willie Jessop's firm:

http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=2709009

[juliekan]

http://twistedchick.livejournal.com/1611776.html

Here's a site that "cites" a lot of sites...I liked the interview with Colorado City historian Benjamin Bistline. Some different points of view that some who have or haven't followed this case closely can find all at one site.

[lotty]

http://www.590klbj.com/News/Story.aspx?ID=92695
FLDS Members Hope to Un-seat a Schleicher County Sheriff Involved in the Raid
6/4/2008

Newsroom

County Sheriff David Doran helped CPS and other state agencies move in church members at beginning because what he calls valid reasons, but now church members who once distanced themselves from the political world are aiming to use the ballot box as a weapon.

[lotty]

http://writ.news.findlaw.com/hamilton/20080603.html

Why The Texas Supreme Court's Ruling Regarding the FLDS Mothers Is Significantly More Protective of the Children Involved than the Media Have Painted It To Be
By MARCI HAMILTON

Tuesday, Jun. 3, 2008
Recently, the Texas Supreme Court affirmed the state’s Third Circuit appellate court’s ruling that Child Protective Services (CPS) lacked adequate evidence to justify taking all of the children from the FLDS’s Yearning for Zion compound. However, as I will explain, there are significant differences between the two rulings, which bode well for the endangered children of the FLDS.


JMO This is a very good read.

[MsTuri]

Originally posted by walton
http://www.cnn.com/2008/US/04/17/polygamy.pentagon/

The U.S. government paid more than $1.7 million in defense contracts over the last decade to companies owned by leaders of Warren Jeffs' polygamous sect, with tens of thousands allegedly winding its way back to Jeffs and his church.

The Pentagon had contracts with three companies with ties to Warren Jeffs' polygamous sect.

In fact, some of the deals were made after Jeffs was named to the FBI's "Most-Wanted List" and remained in place while he was on the run.

CNN has learned that between 1998 and 2007, the United States Air Force and Defense Logistics Agency purchased more than $1.7 million worth of airplane parts from three companies owned by members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which practices polygamy. [/*]

This whole post-:eek: !!!

I just got home and heard this for the first time- yikes.!

[MsTuri]

Please forgive- too late to delete- got lost and didn't know this was the links thread, sorry CW...

[walton]

http://www.mormonfundamentalism.com/ChartLinks/AUB.htm

With the split in Priesthood Councils in 1952 and the death of Joseph W. Musser in 1954, Rulon C. Allred was left as the uncontested leader of those following the new Council. Rulon went into hiding for a few years after the 1953 Short Creek raid: “I remember when I left this state because I had to. I knew that warrants were out for my arrest. There were many brethren of the Council who could safely remain here. I tried to carry on by meeting them once or twice a month. Sometimes we met in Elko, Nevada, sometimes we met in Malad, Idaho, sometimes we met in Pocatello, but we got together.”[1]

[walton]

http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,645199995,00.html

Rulon Allred became well-known to mainstream Utah in 1977 when he was shot to death by order of rival polygamist leader Ervil LeBaron, head of the Church of the Lamb of God, which traced its fundamentalist lineage back to Benjamin Johnson, a contemporary of Joseph Smith

[walton]

http://www.mormonfundamentalism.com/ChartLinks/OwenAllred.htm

On occasion, Owen Allred provided his followers with detailed instructions regarding their polygamous marriage relationships: “The minute a man turns over the finances to his wife and lets her handle the checking account, lets her keep track of the bookkeeping, he is lamed... No woman should ever handle the finances in a celestial family. This must be solely the responsibility of the man, the head of the family... Never discuss private problems between him and a wife with another wife... Don’t accuse a wife of not loving you, and a wife must never tell her husband that he doesn’t love her... A man cannot allow privileges to one wife that he does not allow to the other wives...”[10]

[walton]

http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200505/steyn

He came from a long line of Mormons—his great-grandfather walked with Brigham Young on the original trek to the Great Salt Lake—but Owen knew how to move with the times. He was the kind of stern fundamentalist patriarch who, when his church needed financing to buy the recreational hangout of the old Vegas mob, was savvy enough to route the deal through Belize. Two years ago a judge ruled that he'd laundered thousands of dollars and his church had swindled $1.5 million out of Marsha Jones, a onetime South American movie star and Detroit hood's moll who had changed her name to Virginia Hill in honor of Bugsy Siegel's squeeze. Poor old "Virginia" could handle the mobsters but got taken to the cleaners by the Mormons.

[walton]

http://polygamybooks.com/lawaubruling.htm

Kevin’s opening statement couldn’t have been said better:

"Polygamous leader Owen Allred laundered thousands of dollars in cash, and his church – the Apostolic United Brethren (AUB) – conspired to steal thousands more, a judge has ruled in a multimillion-dollar lawsuit."


The ruling handed down by Judge Donald Eyre awards plaintiff Virginia Hill $1.54 million plus 10 percent interest which amounts to approximately $1.8 million, or a total of about $3.34 million. Although plaintiff, Virginia Hill, was disappointed that it wasn’t millions more, 3.34 million is not a sum to sneeze at. AUB’s portion of the judgment, $250,000.00 plus10 percent interest per annum will approach a figure of about $830,000.00.

[Vinnie]

One might legitimately ask how such religious folk can justify perpetrating illegal activities. You only need to review the histories of Joseph Smith and Brigham Young. They weren't able lying, hiding, cheating and even murder.

Joseph sought to obtain a bank charter, and when it was denied, he formed the Kirtland Safety Society Anti Banking Company, an illegal bank that printed its own $3 bills.

He illegally ordered the destruction of the Nauvoo Expositor (a dissident newspaper that was exposing the polygamy of the Mormon leaders, something the JS was STILL attempting to deny).

For at least 10 years, Joseph had denied polygamy. In 1835, the first edition of Doctrine and Covenants denied the practice of polygamy:

"Inasmuch as this Church of Christ has been reproached with the crime of fornication and polygamy, we declare that we believe that one man should have one wife, and one woman but one husband, except in the case of death, when either is at liberty to marry again." (History of the Church, Vol. 2, p. 247)

The current edition of Doctrine and Covenants admits that the statement above was a lie:

"Although the revelation was recorded in 1843, it is evident from the historical records that the doctrines and principles involved in this revelation had been known by the Prophet since 1831."

And murder? Brigham Young preached of the necessity of "Blood Atonement":

"This is loving our neighbor as ourselves; if he needs help, help him; and if he wants salvation and it is necessary to spill his blood on the earth in order that he may be saved, spill it....if you have sinned a sin requiring the shedding of blood, except the sin unto death, would not be satisfied nor rest until your blood should be spilled, that you might gain that salvation you desire. That is the way to love mankind."

Ervil LeBaron had been advocating blood atonement for several years before he ordered the killing of Dr. Allred.

[walton]

Good post Vinnie.




The history behind the FLDS is very interesting. The FLDS up until now have never denied their history. The comment that Willie E. made was out of character for their beliefs. imo

[walton]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4P1WTs2O2s

Owens words on Gods Law vs Laws of the Land

[lotty]

http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=3490217

Poll: Utahns don't trust promises of FLDS parents
June 8th, 2008 @ 10:00pm
John Hollenhorst reporting

The FLDS story in Texas climaxed last week when hundreds of children were sent back to their parents, but many Utahns are skeptical of promises made by the FLDS parents. A new KSL poll reveals even more skepticism about their church's pledge to abolish underage marriage. Now, an old sermon by FLDS prophet Warren Jeffs may add fuel to that skepticism.

[lotty]

http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/columnists/story.html?id=09218181-661d-4d5f-afea-eaa9022e251a&p=1

Freed from Bountiful: a mother wins a battle
Daphne Bramham, The Vancouver Sun
Published: Saturday, June 07, 2008
Over the past two weeks in two different countries and in very different circumstances, two sisters regained custody of their children. Those children now face vastly different futures.

[lotty]

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/5825107.html

June 7, 2008, 10:25PM
Few willing to break away from FLDS
Those who do testify risk being cut out of family

By TERRI LANGFORD and LISA SANDBERG
Copyright 2008 Houston Chronicle
At 21, Elissa Wall overcame her fear of losing contact with her family forever and endangering her immortal soul when she decided to help Utah prosecutors in their sexual abuse case against polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs — a man her church believes gets his orders directly from God.

[witchy1]

This to me says it all. The children should be set free, imo.

[evalles]

Attorney for monogymous FLDS family

Haas, a former judge, expressed anger last month, accusing CPS attorneys of being dishonest and uncooperative

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,700232571,00.html?pg=2

[evalles]

FLDS couple get a ruling against state

http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/religion/stories/MYSA061008.1*.FLDShearing.3899a1c.html

[evalles]

CPS remains blind to its blunders in polygamist-ranch case


http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/columnists/krodriguez/stories/MYSA.060408.METRO_1*_krod.38998*8.html

[evalles]

Don't know if this is new or not.

Gov. Perry orders statewide investigation into the practices and procedures of Child Protective Services.

http://www.governor.state.tx.us/priorities/health_safety/protective_services/hotline

[lotty]

http://www.star-telegram.com/275/story/693313.html

Posted on Wed, Jun. 11, 2008
Polygamist sect to sue government officials over raid
By BILL HANNA
Star-Telegram staff writer

The attorney for the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints said Tuesday that the polygamist sect intends to sue state and county officials over the April 3 raid on the Yearning for Zion Ranch near Eldorado...

[lotty]

http://www.marshallnewsmessenger.com/news/content/region/legislature/stories/06/12/0612flds.html

CPS: Most sect children did not return to ranch
Lawyer says she and some others advised against going back.
By Corrie MacLaggan
AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF
Thursday, June 12, 2008
Most of the children the state returned to their parents last week did not go back to the polygamist sect's ranch in Eldorado, Child Protective Services officials said Wednesday...

"Mostly it's people who have marriage certificates with their husbands and birth certificates for their kids are the people who are back," Johnson said.

[Vinnie]

http://www.truthwillprevail.org/index.php?parentid=1&index=62

FLDS web site reports story of Texas governor's home fire.

Curious.

:no:

[evalles]

2. Texas District Judge Barbara Walther should be impeached and removed from the bench because she violated her oaths to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the State of Texas.

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/804939/texas_district_judge_barbara_walther.html?page=2&cat=9

[evalles]

Wow, the same FLDS website has exerpts from the correspondence sent to the governor.

http://www.truthwillprevail.org/index.php?parentid=1&index=64

[KatyDid]

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/stories/061308dntexmansion.255edcda.html

Fire marshal: Video shows person setting fire at Texas Governor's Mansion

01:56 PM CDT on Thursday, June 12, 2008
By EMILY RAMSHAW / The Dallas Morning News

AUSTIN — The state fire marshal confirmed Thursday that surveillance video shows a person igniting something and hurling it onto the front porch of the mansion moments before a four-alarm fire at the historic Texas Governor's Mansion.

[spirit07]

Judge's orders aimed to protect Jeffs' daughter from sect member

The Dallas Morning News/June 4, 2008
By Robert T. Garrett

http://rickross.com/reference/polygamy/polygamy954.html

"A judge Tuesday set special conditions for the release from state custody of a 16-year-old daughter of polygamist sect prophet Warren Jeffs after the girl's lawyer complained she'd been sexually abused by a man in the group and might be in danger.

While 397 of the sect's 440 children in the custody of Child Protective Services had been released by late Tuesday, Mr. Jeffs' daughter was the only one accorded special protections, said her lawyer, Natalie Malonis of Flower Mound.

State District Judge Barbara Walther of San Angelo allowed the girl to be released to her mother, Annette Jeffs, at a Midland foster care facility after ordering the mother to keep her in the San Antonio area where she lives - and away from the alleged perpetrator, a 38-year-old sect member.

The judge may impose additional restrictions, Ms. Malonis said.

"She was very concerned about, 'Will the parent be able to protect her?' " Ms. Malonis said of Judge Walther.

Ms. Malonis said CPS and law enforcement had evidence that the girl was sexually abused, though they don't believe she's ever been pregnant.

CPS lawyer Gary Banks and Tim Edwards of San Angelo, attorney for the girl's mother, helped craft the special order. It orders Annette Jeffs not to return to the ranch with the girl. ..."

[Mimi428]

http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/local/06/17/0617reward.html

$50,000 reward for info. State Fire Marshal states that the motive for the fire 'may have been political'.

Excerpt. . .

The announcement came during a news conference Monday during which officials released a description of the man and said that the arson may have been politically motivated. No specific evidence has been found to support the claim, state fire marshal spokesman Ben Gonzalez said, but investigators arrived at the theory because the arsonist targeted a politically significant building.

"It is a hypothesis; we're not saying it was definitely politically motivated," Gonzalez said. "If this was a thrill seeker, they could've chosen any building, but this was the residence of the governor."

[spirit07]

This is an older article, but long and informative (I don't know if it has already been posted or not. If so, sorry!)

Wanted: Armed and Dangerous: As the FBI chases polygamist Prophet Warren Jeffs, work continues 24/7 on his religion's foreboding new Texas capital

By John Dougherty
Published on November 10, 2005

[• Colorado City's electric utility is illegally diverting power-generation and distribution equipment to the Texas compound.

• Colorado City employees are receiving taxpayer-funded salaries to work on secret FLDS projects.

• Colorado City officials and police have regularly used municipal phones to maintain close communication with FLDS leaders in Canada and elsewhere, raising suspicion that they are using public resources to help Jeffs avoid arrest. ...

The discovery of Colorado City power-generation equipment at the Yearning for Zion ranch is particularly significant because it provides law enforcement probable cause to obtain a search warrant to enter the compound to look for stolen property...

The ranch is patrolled 24 hours a day by security forces equipped with all-terrain vehicles and sophisticated radios that scramble communications to prevent eavesdropping. Former FLDS members say security team members are known to carry concealed weapons.]


And, of course, here is a key point....

[It would be a long, lonely walk to the outside world from YFZ. And even if a girl tried to leave, it is unlikely she could flee without detection.

"You can't approach that ranch from any direction without being seen," says Randy Mankin, the editor and publisher of the community's weekly newspaper, the Eldorado Success.]


http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2005-11-10/news/wanted-armed-and-dangerous

[Mimi428]

http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_9662683

In Philadelphia
FLDS to loom large at cult-studies meeting

The Yearning for Zion Ranch raid will likely serve as a backdrop for discussions of polygamy during the International Cultic Studies Association annual conference next week.

The agenda for the June 26-29 conference in Philadelphia includes three sessions on polygamy, and other presenters have focused in the past on the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

. . .

(Janja) Lalich will give the keynote address and will speak at sessions about cult research and brainwashing. In a recent interview with The Salt Lake Tribune, Lalich said the FLDS have "all the hallmarks of a cult."

[Mimi428]

From a UK website, the TimesOnline. . .

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article4164416.ece

Yearning for Zion: What next for the polygamists?

Six-year-old Samuel Jeffs has only one leg. On April 3 he was taken away from his home and his mother by the Texas Child Protective Services (CPS). His father, Warren Jeffs, is in prison, convicted in Utah of being an accomplice to child rape.

. . .

Samuel is well represented. He has his own attorney, a CPS worker and a court-appointed special advocate. This is a review hearing to check on his progress. He has the judge on his side too. She asks searching questions about his medical care. She sympathises with his handicap. The judge had polio as a child and wears callipers. Daily she hauls herself onto her dais, from which she presides over this monumental, unprecedented case.

. . .

"Why,” asks the judge, “does he have only one leg?” The lawyers look at each other and eventually agree on a genetic defect.

[evalles]

Sorry if this has been posted, it's the 23 page request for the restraining order against Willie.

http://www.truthwillprevail.org/Willie%20Jessop%20Restraining%20Order%20and%20Brow er%20Affidavit.pdf


I can't help it, when I read the affidavit from Sam Brower I cracked up.
He talks about how intimidating it was when Willie was followin' him while he was followin' Warren.

He said that one time Willie followed him around all day, like it's bad to follow people around and watch their every move.

[walton]

Originally posted by evalles
Sorry if this has been posted, it's the 23 page request for the restraining order against Willie.

http://www.truthwillprevail.org/Willie%20Jessop%20Restraining%20Order%20and%20Brow er%20Affidavit.pdf


I can't help it, when I read the affidavit from Sam Brower I cracked up.
He talks about how intimidating it was when Willie was followin' him while he was followin' Warren.

He said that one time Willie followed him around all day, like it's bad to follow people around and watch their every move. [/*]

evalles your link doesn't work for me. I tried going to the site but can't find the story your talking about. :shrug:

[evalles]

Originally posted by walton


evalles your link doesn't work for me. I tried going to the site but can't find the story your talking about. :shrug: [/*]



http://www.truthwillprevail.org/Willie%20Jessop%20Restraining%20Order%20and%20Brow er%20Affidavit.pdf


Try this, if it doesn't work go to
http://www.truthwillprevail.org/index.php?parentid=1&index=75

then click on temporary restraining order.

[lotty]

http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=3620474

Talking Point: Elissa Wall discusses Texas FLDS investigation
June 25th, 2008 @ 6:45pm
(KSL News) A grand jury in Texas opened its investigation today into the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS) polygamist sect. It started hearing testimony from police officers and FLDS women.

[lotty]

http://www.kxan.com/Global/story.asp?S=8565601

FLDS members attend commission hearing on child welfare

Posted: June 27, 2008 10:34 AM MDT
AUSTIN, Texas (KXAN) -- At least four FLDS members are in attendance at a Texas Supreme Court Committee hearing on children's services within the court system.

[lotty]

http://www.keyetv.com/content/news/topnews/story.aspx?content_id=c4*87447-582*-4a37-baa2-4a45fb553cd2

Polygamist Leader Denied Chance To Address Texas Committee
Last Update: 6/27 9:40 pm
Tensions ran high outside the Texas Supreme Court Friday afternoon over the West Texas Polygamist sect case.

[Mimi428]

http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_9729470

Cult expert: Texas shouldn't have released FLDS kids

PHILADELPHIA _ By sending the children in the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints back home, Texas has opened the doors to groups who want religious protection for abusing children, a leading church and state scholar said Saturday.

[evalles]

CPS, judge threatened American foundation

http://gosanangelo.com/news/2008/jun/19/cps-judge-threatened-american-foundation/

Abuse of power often begins when sensational rumors are spun into a "noble cause" that appears to justify authorities in violating the rule of law.

[lotty]

http://gosanangelo.com/news/2008/jun/23/women-kids-do-most-work/
Women, kids do most work
Staff Report

Monday, June 23, 2008

Editor:

Gordon H. Emerson wrote in his June 16 letter about no weight problem among the members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

[lotty]

http://www.getreligion.org/?p=3577
June 7, 2008
Pounding the polygamy beat
Posted by Mollie
When Texas judge issued an order Monday allowing the parents in the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints to begin picking up their children, I noticed that the CNN headline was:



JMO This an article praising Brooke Adams for her coverage of YFZ, and how her continuous coverage through her blog. How this has given her the ability to be more thorough in her work, and not to pick up on somethings that are not necessarily true.

I also noticed that there is information about the Bishops List that wasn't published. Meaning IMO that there is plenty we still don't know about, that the state does. As always JMO/IMO.

[Mimi428]

Natalie Malonis won't act as witness, asserts attorney-client privilege

http://www.sltrib.com/ci_9714570?IADID=Search-www.sltrib.com-www.sltrib.com

An attorney for the 16-year-old daughter of FLDS leader Warren S. Jeffs said Thursday that she refused to testify before a grand jury investigating the polygamous sect.
. . .
"I have an obligation to protect the confidential communications with my client," said Malonis, of Flower Mound, Texas.

[lotty]

http://deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,700239410,00.html

Judge never signed FLDS search warrant — and here's why
Published: Monday, June 30, 2008 5:39 p.m. MDT

ELDORADO, Texas — Bloggers have been alternatively praising and condemning Schleicher County Judge Johnny Griffin for refusing to sign the original search warrant that prompted the raid on the Fundamentalist LDS Church's YFZ Ranch...

[Mimi428]

Brian J. Mackert is currently writing a book which is due to be released in October 2008 - title: Illegitimate: How a Loving God Rescued a Son of Polygamy

First chapter here . .

http://www.goodreads.com/story/show/19762.Illegitimate_How_a_Loving_God_Rescued_a_Son_ of_Polygamy

Pre-order available at Amazon.com here . . .

http://www.amazon.com/Illegitimate-How-Loving-Rescued-Polygamy/dp/1434766918/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1215003336&sr=1-1

Excerpt from first chapter. . .

My cell phone jangled. “Hello?”

“Brian, have you seen the news on the TV yet?” The voice I immediately recognized as my older sister Rena’s.

“No, what’s happened?” I asked.

“Go turn on the TV,” she insisted. “They’ve raided the FLDS compound in Eldorado, Texas.”
. . .

“Rena, today all the claims made by you, Laura and Mary in the media have been validated,” I said. Another sister, Mary, is a Baptist missionary to the polygamists trying to help those who want out. She, too, has been in the media addressing the abusive nature of polygamist communities, although she isn’t an activist.

Reports began to flood in about girls as young as thirteen or fourteen being pregnant. As we followed the story, my siblings and I began searching the faces on TV to see if we could find anyone we recognized, perhaps even a family member, but editors had blurred out all the faces. We jumped on the Internet and began searching the photos offered there. We did find one almost immediately—it was my sisters Carole and Andrea.

[juliekan]

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/support-texas-in-taking-flds-children

This is a petition to support Texas in the decision to remove the FLDS children. If you agree with what Texas did, you can sign this and leave your COMMENTS

[Mimi428]

Out of Polygamist Mormonism

By

Brian J. Mackert


http://www.polygkids.com/

As I grew up in this strange family and strange culture, I found that there was great rivalry between the wives and their children. My mother and her children were at the bottom of the pecking order. . .

[Mimi428]

Grim tales surface of sect's sex slavery

http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/grim-tales-surface-of-sects-sex-slavery/2008/04/11/1207856831642.html

CHILDHOOD in a fundamentalist Mormon community means little education, regular beatings, rigorous household duties, and for girls, an arranged marriage in their teens culminating in a lifetime of subservience, say two sisters who fled that existence.

"My father had four wives yet he couldn't keep his hands off his daughters," said Rena Mackert, one of 31 siblings.

"One of my sisters had five sons, all sodomised by their father."

[Mimi428]

Stripped Bare: As FLDS children in Texas begin returning to their parents, ex-sect member Kathleen Mackert asks what future awaits polygamy’s children

http://www.slweekly.com/index.cfm?do=article.details&id=5440A126-14D1-13A2-9FA3A5ECC3D0A4*9&page=2

It culminated on her 16th birthday in a ritual he inflicted on all of Myra’s daughters. He took Kathleen out to dinner and explained he could do whatever he wanted to her. Now she was on a par with her mothers sexually. “After the date, he came into my bedroom and demonstrated things physically,” Kathleen Mackert says.

This echoes a pattern an affidavit in the Texas YFZ case refers to, when a social worker accused the FLDS of both indoctrinating and “grooming” minor females through sexual abuse to become wives of adult members of the sect’s patriarchal leadership.

[Mimi428]

Polygamy prevails in remote Arizona Town

http://www.rickross.com/reference/polygamy/polygamy54.html

Colorado City, Ariz. -- As a little girl, Laura (Mackert) Chapman taped the words "Keep Sweet" on her bathroom mirror to remind herself how to get by in this remote, polygamous community.

Keeping sweet, Chapman says, meant staying silent as her father molested her starting at age 3. It meant hiding her secret from her 30 brothers and sisters. It meant being lashed with a yardstick by one of her father's four wives. It meant having to quit school at age 11, then work without pay in a store owned by her church's prophet.

Keeping sweet meant being forced into marriage at age 18 to a man she didn't know, let alone love. It meant having a baby every year. It meant walking 10 paces behind her husband. And, above all, it meant smiling, sweetly through her pain.

[Mimi428]

Ervil LeBaron

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ervil_LeBaron

Ervil Morrell LeBaron (February 22, 1925 – August 16, 1981) was the leader of a polygamous Mormon fundamentalist group who ordered the killings of many of his opponents.

Using the doctrine of blood atonement to justify multiple murders, LeBaron died in prison for orchestrating the murder of an opponent. He had 13 wives in a plural marriage, several of whom he married while they were still underage.

[Mimi428]

The Sixth of Seven Wives: Escape from Modern Day Polygamy

http://www.culticstudiesreview.org/csr_bkreviews/bkrev_sixthofsevenwives.htm

Marriages are arranged through a church elder and it is not unusual for a man to have dozens of children, and in many cases they require public assistance. It is also not unusual for older men to marry a child bride. Women in the colony accept this, but according to the author their acquiescence is due more to fear than to religious duty.

She suggests that the fear is real and based on “blood atonement redemption,” which justifies killing anyone who violates temple oaths or reveals its secrets. One such temple oath is being faithful in marriage. She cites a 1984 case of two murders, a mother age 24 and her 15-month-old daughter.

[Mimi428]

State officials faced culture of lies, religious experts say

http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:K2WH5GUW0CwJ:www.rickross.com/reference/polygamy/polygamy932.html+mackert+flds&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=7&gl=us

Child welfare officials were up against a culture of secrecy, unlimited resources and sect members well-schooled in the art of misleading authorities as they tried to build their case for removing hundreds of children from a West Texas polygamist enclave, religious experts and former adherents say.

By the time Ms. Mackert, from Utah, was married herself - at 17, to a 50-year-old - lying was second nature. When her husband was in public with her, he would ask their children to "come to Grandpa." When Ms. Mackert took the rent check to the landlord, she referred to her husband as her father.

"You didn't think of it as lying. It's your duty and your responsibility to protect those who are living the principle," Ms. Mackert said. "They're going to lie to protect their prophet, and the head of their family. They'll do anything under the banner of religion."

[Mimi428]

Bound by Fear: Polygamy in Arizona For decades the state has let a feudal colony of fundamentalist Mormons force underage girls into illegal polygamous marriages

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

Ruth Stubbs is among scores of teenage girls, many of whom are underage, who have been married by fundamentalist Mormon prophets into polygamy in recent years. The tally reaches hundreds of girls over the last seven decades.

The Arizona Attorney General's Office has compiled a list of more than 40 teenage girls it suspects have been coerced into polygamy by the FLDS in the last decade, state records obtained by New Times through the Arizona Public Records Law show.

A few decades ago, the FLDS routinely married girls as young as 13 into polygamy.

[walton]

http://www.sltrib.com/polygamy/ci_9884280

The Nevada Democrat requested and received the July 24 hearing before the committee, during which he will present evidence to support a federal crime investigation of The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, a spokesman said.

[walton]

http://www.sltrib.com/polygamy/ci_9890163

A 3rd District Court judge refused to issue a temporary restraining order that would have halted plans to evict hundreds of people from their homes in the polygamous Utah-Arizona border communities of Hildale and Colorado City.

[walton]

http://www.sltrib.com/polygamy/ci_9901140

Attorneys representing 16 FLDS members have filed an action in 5th District Court claiming the Harker Farm in Beryl was seized by a court-appointed fiduciary overseeing the United Effort Plan Trust without recognizing their lifetime right to work and live there. The lawsuit was filed July 10 in Iron County and has been assigned to Judge John T. Walton.

[walton]

http://www.trutv.com/library/crime/criminal_mind/sexual_assault/warren_jeffs/1_index.html


To his thousands of followers living in polygamist communities spanning from Mexico to Canada, Warren was a prophet and the authorities were on the side of the devil. They would do anything to protect their leader, even if it put them in jeopardy of getting arrested. They were simply following what they believed to be a higher command, one which advised them to keep their polygamist way of life quiet. However, as investigators delved deeper into the polygamist sect that Warren led, they uncovered other more serious crimes that had also been hushed up, which included arranged marriages with children, pedophilia, incest, and child slavery. They were ghastly crimes, all of which Warren was accused of committing.

[walton]

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,700244245,00.html?pg=1

As active members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and all current or former church employees, Ron Walker, Richard Turley and Glen Leonard found themselves immersed in the twisted horror of seemingly godly men trying to justify the cold-blooded murder of 120 men, women and children during nearly a decade of research and writing.

Yet their new book, "Massacre at Mountain Meadows," is dedicated to those most often overlooked in most of the scholarly and secular accounts of the tragedy: "To the victims."

[lunchlady]

I still don't understand why so many of these supposedly religious men want to force underage girls into marriage and start having babies right away. Do they attract men who like 'em young? Do they think that if they can get them tied down with babies they're less likely to bolt? Do they think that women don't have anything better to do so they might as well get started as soon as possible pumping out the babies? Racking up the baby count makes these guys feel like God loves them more. I think its all of these reasons, but the attractiveness of young girls to old men is the yukkiest part. They aren't fully developed so their hips are slimmer and they're generally fresh and firm all over. Yum yum. Old creeps. The low status men proably work hard in hopes of moving up the power pyramid and getting in on the child bride bonanza.

[walton]

http://web.sccn2.net/FLDS/links.htm

The Pilot has been busy. Lots of links (including the Bishops list) and other court documents. There are also pictures of the YFZ ranch.

[lotty]

Originally posted by walton
http://web.sccn2.net/FLDS/links.htm

The Pilot has been busy. Lots of links (including the Bishops list) and other court documents. There are also pictures of the YFZ ranch. [/*]

Wow! That is an amazing amount of work.

[lotty]

http://www.sltrib.com/ci_9944477
Polygamy hearing: There may be a role for federal government
Article Last Updated: 07/21/2008 01:31:47 AM MDT
What we do know is that the FLDS community is spread across several states and Canada. The interstate and international scope of the FLDS suggests a federal role in criminal investigations.

[walton]

http://stephensingular.com/Blog/Default.aspx

Stephens blog entry: After reading "When Men Become Gods," Senator Harry Reid (D-Nevada) called our house and wanted to speak with me about the book. I was in San Angelo, Texas attending the second round of hearings in the child custody case, after 460 children had been removed from the FLDS compound near Eldorado. Senator Reid was very enthusiastic about the book and asked me to write him a detailed letter outlining the potential crimes of Warren Jeffs and the FLDS sect. He wants to launch a federal investigation of the FLDS and wanted to give my letter to Senate and House committee heads who would be looking into this issue. When we were speaking, Senator Reid said this about the book: "This book shines much needed light on the disturbing activities of these outlaw communities. I only wish it had been written years ago." He's moving forward to start the investigation.

[lotty]

http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2008/07/27/magazine/20080727_FLDS_SLIDESHOW_index.html
The Young Women of the F.L.D.S.

[lotty]

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/27/magazine/27mormon-t.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
Magazine Preview
Children of God
By SARA CORBETT
Published: July 27, 2008

On a humid Wednesday in late June, as she waited to be summoned by a grand jury, 16-year-old Teresa Jeffs hitched up her navy blue prairie dress and hoisted herself into the crooked arms of a live oak tree that sits in front of the Schleicher County Courthouse in Eldorado, Tex. For a few minutes, she was not — as has been speculated about many of the young women of the Fundamentalist

[juliekan]

Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing

"Crimes Associated with Polygamy: The Need for a Coordinated State and Federal Response"


http://judiciary.senate.gov/hearing.cfm?id=3489


Testimonies before the committee by the following:

Senator Harry Reid
Gregory Brower
Brett Tolman
Hon. Terry Goddard
Hon. Greg Abbot
Stephen Singular
Dr. Daniel Fischer
Carolyn Jessop

[lotty]

http://judiciary.senate.gov/hearing.cfm?id=3489

transcripts of testimonies

[juliekan]

http://principlevoices.org/

Principle Voices Denounces Senator Reid's "Victims of Polygamy Assistance Act of 2008"

[not.another]

I guess this is a start.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/07/24/polygamy.hearing/index.html

Polygamous sects that have spread throughout the United States and beyond are "a form of organized crime," largely unchecked by law enforcement, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Thursday.

[Mimi428]

Polygamist custody case divided 119 ways

http://www.statesman.com/news/content/gen/ap/TX_Polygamist_Retreat.html?plckCurrentPage=2&sid=sitelife.statesman.com

The judge who had her custody decision reversed on more than 400 polygamist sect children has ordered the case be broken up by mother, creating 119 separate child welfare cases.

Texas District Judge Barbara Walther on Thursday signed orders dividing up the children who were previously lumped into two large court cases.

[Mimi428]

Judge divides FLDS child cases

http://gosanangelo.com/news/2008/jul/25/breaking-news-judge-divides-flds-child-cases/

Better article with considerable clarification than the one just above from the Austin American Statesman.



Walther split Case No. 2902 - which included more than 300 children - into 110 cases grouped by mother, and Case 2903, which included more than 30 children, into nine cases, also grouped by mother. They join 125 cases filed separately by the state's Child Protective Services agency, which removed nearly 440 children from the sect's Schleicher County

According to the motions requesting the division, filed by CPS, court-ordered DNA tests "and other documents" have sufficiently confirmed the relationship between the children in the cases and their biological mothers, allowing the court to move forward with splitting the massive case.

[Mimi428]

Arizona May Seek Court Order to Get Evidence From YFZ Ranch

http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1494894/arizona_may_seek_court_order_to_get_evidence_from_ yfz/

Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard may go to court to get evidence seized from the Fundamentalist LDS Church's YFZ Ranch shared with states conducting investigations into alleged crimes within the polygamous sect.

"We haven't gotten the information that we've asked for. We have been pushing Texas, and federal authorities there, to try to release and help us evaluate some of the evidence," Goddard said in an interview with the Deseret News shortly after testifying in Washington, D.C., before a senate panel on polygamy-related crimes. "We may have to get a court order to do it."

[lotty]

http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2008/07/27/magazine/0727-ZION_2.html
Inside Their World
The New York Times Magazine

[lotty]

Originally posted by lotty
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2008/07/27/magazine/0727-ZION_2.html
Inside Their World
The New York Times Magazine [/*]
Use this link instead.
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2008/07/27/magazine/0727-ZION_index.html

[Mimi428]

Families torn apart, forced marriages, 'lost boys' don't seem like America

http://www.lvrj.com/news/25958064.html

Carolyn Jessop is the one who got away.

Jessop sat before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday and gave her heart-wrenching testimony about her life inside a polygamous sect. A mother of eight married to a polygamist as a teenager, she offered an eyewitness account of institutional abuse and criminal behavior cloaked in the cheap religious cloth of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. As she spoke, a simple refrain tumbled over and over in my mind.

This happened in America.

[juliekan]

This article includes the Texas Bigamy Statute

http://www.johntfloyd.com/comments/may08/24a.htm

[not.another]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,398324,00.html

SAN ANTONIO — Texas child welfare authorities asked a judge on Tuesday to place eight children from a Texas polygamist sect's ranch back into foster care, saying their mothers refuse to limit their contact with men accused of being involved in underage marriages

[lotty]

http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2008/08/06/20080806az-polyconviction06-on.html
Court upholds polygamist's conviction
Aug. 6, 2008 10:09 AM
Associated Press
An Arizona appeals court has upheld the conviction of a Colorado City polygamist who argued that his marriage to an underage girl was protected by religious freedom.

Kelly Fischer was one of the so-called "Colorado City Eight," members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints who were prosecuted starting in 2005 for taking underage plural wives...

[lotty]

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20080804.BCFLDS04/TPStory/National
U.S. official vies for control of polygamist private school
ROBERT MATAS

August 4, 2008

VANCOUVER -- In an unprecedented cross-border initiative, a court-appointed official from the United States is trying to take over a private school in British Columbia run by the polygamist Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

[walton]

http://www.clippertoday.com/

Patterns of Polygamy - Religion the ‘controlling force’ inside clan
Jenniffer Wardell 07.AUG.08

For members of the Kingston clan, which started in Bountiful in the 1930s and has since spread to other parts of the state, religion is the controlling force in everyone’s daily life. Behaviors are determined by what group leaders call heavenly “directions,” and can cover everything from marriage to schooling to the foods that members eat.

“You already know what you can and can’t do — it’s been ingrained in you since birth,” said Rowenna Erickson, a former Kingston member who is now leader of Tapestry Against Poly-gamy. “You struggle, but you think you’re sacrificing so you can gain eternal salvation.”

[lunchlady]

FLDS is an example of Scripture being used to justify abuse and control of others, for base purposes. Its frustrating that this ever works at all, but I guess most of us like being led, even if its the Pied Piper taking us who knows where.

[lotty]

http://deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,700252391,00.html
Warrant orders DNA sample from FLDS man
By Ben Winslow
Deseret News
Published: Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2008 5:33 p.m. MDT
SAN ANGELO, Texas — A member of the Fundamentalist LDS Church indicted on a sexual assault charge was forced to give a DNA sample, a newly unsealed search warrant states.

[lotty]

http://deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,700252493,00.html
More FLDS indictments today?
By Ben Winslow
Deseret News
Published: Thursday, Aug. 21, 2008 12:27 a.m. MDT
ELDORADO, Texas — A grand jury investigating alleged crimes within the Fundamentalist LDS Church will meet here again today, with the possibility of more indictments being handed up...

[lotty]

http://www.gosanangelo.com/news/2008/aug/22/grand-jury-returns-three-more-indictments-in/
Grand jury returns three more indictments in FLDS case
By Paul A. Anthony (Contact)
Friday, August 22, 2008

ELDORADO - A Schleicher County grand jury returned three more felony indictments against members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, bringing to 12 the number of charges affiliated thus far with the April raid on the polygamist sect...

[walton]

http://www.sltrib.com/ci_10300177

Three FLDS members are asking a Utah judge to stop a fiduciary who oversees the polygamous sect's communal trust from selling property without court approval.
Willie Jessop, Dan Johnson and Merlin Jessop want 3rd District Judge Denise Lindberg to require Bruce R. Wisan to present proposed sales in court before disposing of land held in the United Effort Plan Trust.
Wisan says the move is a "collateral attack" on the court and its prior rulings to reform the trust and his authority to manage it.

[walton]

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,700253767,00.html

A judge in Kingman, Ariz., has declined to throw out an indictment against Fundamentalist LDS Church leader Warren Jeffs.
Mohave County Superior Court Judge Steven Conn released his ruling late Monday, denying a motion by Jeffs' attorneys to remand the case back to the grand jury. In a 14-page ruling, Conn noted the massive amounts of publicity coverage surrounding the case, but said there was nothing to show it deprived Jeffs of a fair and impartial grand jury.

Jeffs' defense attorney Michael Piccaretta argued that prosecutors also presented misleading, false and prejudicial information to the grand jury to secure the indictments. Conn said he did not believe prosecutors undermined the fairness of the grand jury presentation.

Piccaretta said he plans to appeal Conn's decision.

[walton]

http://www.ueptrust.com/

The United Effort Plan Trust (UEP) is sponsoring this website to communicate information about UEP land and management issues to the people living on trust land and other interested parties. The information contained in the website will be updated to include current events and public notices. Since the website will be evolutionary in nature, we invite responses and suggestions on how to make it more useful and interesting.

[lotty]

http://homemakers.com/Life&Times/reallives/polygamy-in-canada-our-dirty-little-secret-n260428p1.html

An article from Canada, FLDS and Human Rights. Lots of background info.

[walton]

http://www.gosanangelo.com/news/2008/jul/02/sect-affiliated-company-bids-on-tom-green-county/

"We've tried to use as many local contracts as possible," said John Wilmoth, director of the Concho Valley Community Supervision and Corrections Department. "He's done that, for the most part."

Sect spokesman Rod Parker stressed that the sect-affiliated company is allowed by law to be a bidder.

"It isn't illegal, and it may benefit the county if they can do it for less money," Parker said. "The companies that are in this (FLDS) community are very familiar with the process of bidding on government projects and how to comply with (the law). They do have a good track record on compliance."

The project in question is a partnership between the county and the state to add 92 beds and 26,000 square feet to the Concho Valley Female Community Corrections Facility, and 60 beds and 15,000 square feet to the Roy K Robb Men's Community Corrections Facility. Both rehabilitate drug- and alcohol-addicted inmates sent there by court order.

[walton]

http://www.childswayout.org/naomis_story.html

I was 13 when my mother refused to allow this fate for her children and arranged a daring escape for my younger brothers, sisters, and me. After we were on the outside, we were forced to live in the shadows because of the "right" of an FLDS father to kill a wife that would take his children from him, and therefore from God. In fact, within the FLDS belief, the only way that a wife who did take her children from their father could get into heaven, would be if she is killed by her husband. This is the principle referred to as "blood atonement."

[walton]

http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_10754951

The proposed sale has drawn a public objection from Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints members, who have stayed mostly silent in the three years since the court takeover of their communal property trust.
The UEP Trust holds virtually all land and buildings in Hildale, Utah, and Colorado City, Ariz., the sect's traditional home base.
Bruce R. Wisan, the fiduciary overseeing the trust, is negotiating to sell the 711-acre farm to Kenneth Knudson, a real estate developer and member of Centennial Park, a separate polygamous community.
Knudson has proposed a housing development there.
Wisan had not seen the filing but said Friday, "We believe we have a very good case and don't think any of the allegations in the motion are true."

[walton]

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,705256131,00.html

For years, the FLDS were silent — refusing to deal with the fiduciary, respond to trust reforms or pay taxes. In the aftermath of the raid on the faith's ranch in Texas, members have started responding in court.

"While Texas has got our children, Wisan's trying to take our property," Willie Jessop said in a recent interview with the Deseret News. Court documents state he has cattle and sheep grazing on Berry Knoll.

But years of silence appear to have frustrated everyone from lawyers to the judge overseeing the trust, who questioned if their recent challenges were "too little, too late." Shields has said any "war" was not started by the fiduciary, who is seeking to sell the property to help a trust that is deep in debt because of litigation and a long-standing lack of cooperation from FLDS members who live on UEP land.

[lotty]

http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_11123497
Jeffs' attorneys file Supreme Court appeal
FLDS leader » The defense argues errors warrant new trial.
By Brooke Adams

The Salt Lake Tribune

Updated: 12/02/2008 10:14:46 PM MST


Faulty jury instructions and a juror's substitution are among errors alleged in a Utah Supreme Court appeal that seeks a new trial for polygamous sect leader Warren S. Jeffs.

[lotty]

http://deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,705268062,00.html
Committee considers mediating FLDS/ex-FLDS divide
By Ben Winslow
Deseret News
There may be a stand-down in the litigation over the United Effort Plan Trust, but some who live in the fundamentalist border communities of Hildale, Utah, and Colorado City, Ariz., don't feel that way...





I wonder how this will play out. JMO

[juliekan]

http://www.mohavecourts.com/highprofile/highprofileJeffs.htm

Mohave County Superior Court State of Arizona vs Warren Steed Jeffs

This site has the court motions, notice of depositions, etc.

[juliekan]

http://blogs.sltrib.com/plurallife/ 12-15-08

Here is the list of those charged in the YFZ case in Texas, by month and with a description of the alleged offense and bond posted, up to this date.

[juliekan]

CPS report details findings of abuse and neglect at YFZ Ranch
By Paul A. Anthony (Contact)
Originally published 09:46 a.m., December 23, 2008
Updated 12:36 p.m., December 23, 2008
http://www.gosanangelo.com/news/2008/dec/29/flds-sect-calls-officials-report-of-abuse/

Actual report
http://web.gosanangelo.com/pdf/EldInvRpt.pdf

[juliekan]

http://www.sltrib.com/polygamy/ci_11320432

Polygamous sect blasts Texas report
FLDS » They say an April raid desecrated their temple, traumatized them and pushed them into poverty.

http://www.truthwillprevail.org/inde...id=1&index=160

PRESS RELEASE FROM THE YFZ RANCH
YFZ Raid was Never Justified

This is the letter Willie Jessop signed

[juliekan]

Sons of Perdition Documentary

trailer
http://www.leftturnfilms.com/

[juliekan]

Bountiful timeline
Vancouver SunJanuary 7, 2009

http://www.vancouversun.com/Life/Bou...403/story.html

Winston Blackmore

[walton]

http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/features/polygamy/index.html

A collection of Polygamy stories with links and videos.

Daphne Bramham has been a columnist at The Vancouver Sun since 2000. She won the National Newspaper Award for column writing in June 2005. Judges said she "cuts away misconceptions and misinformation on a wide-range of issues... Her clear thinking shines like a laser in searching out logical inconsistencies."

[walton]

http://communities.canada.com/vancouversun/blogs/thinktank/default.aspx

This is Daphne Bramhams blog.

[walton]

http://www.dilemmaproductions.ca/bios/fdawson.shtml

An acclaimed investigative journalist, Fabian Dawson is the Deputy Editor of The Province newspaper in Vancouver, which is part of the Canwest Global media group.

In addition to being the former editorial consultant to The Asian Pacific Post, Dawson also advises several publications in Hong Kong , Malaysia , Singapore , India and England . He is frequently asked to be a media commentator on organized crime/terrorism and has been called on to speak to Members of Parliament in Canada 's House of Commons on matters pertaining to crime and national security.


Fabian has done a lot of research concerning the Polygamy issues both in Canada and here.

[walton]

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

For two decades Winston Blackmore was the Bishop of Bountiful, a secretive and secluded community living in the Creston Valley of British Columbia.

His first wife Jane claims that he has 26 wives and some 80 children. But in an interview with Hana Gartner from the fifth estate, Mr. Blackmore didn't want to confirm any details.

[walton]

http://www.rickross.com/reference/polygamy/polygamy50.html

written in 2000

Craig Chatwin said goodbye to his sister Esther Ruth shortly after her 13th birthday last year.

She was getting married.

"She was just a kid and was assigned to marry someone in Canada," said Chatwin, a former member of the polygamous Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Chatwin, 28, said Esther Ruth was the last of seven sisters from Colorado City, Ariz. to be assigned husbands at the Bountiful polygamous commune in Lister, B.C.

"I have not seen her since," said Chatwin.

"She was just a kid and they married her to a guy who was 28."

[walton]

http://www.marshall-attorneys.com/Press/2002_11_14_VP.htm

This was written 2002

Debbie Palmer was 15 when the “prophet” took her by the hand into a bed room and ordered her to marry a 57-year- old man.

She was his fifth wife. He was her step- grandfather. Most of the 30 children he had were older than her. It was the first of her three “celestially arranged marriages.”

Now the 47-year-old Palmer and 35 other women who grew up in polygamous communes run by the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints are taking the men they say forced them to marry as teenagers to court.

[walton]

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

Titled: How did U.S. teen end up in polygamists' commune, mom asks
Mother fears girl secretly wed after getting over border

written in 2000

The American mother of a teen bride has filed a report with the RCMP asking police to find out how her daughter ended up at a polygamous commune in the East Kootenays.

"I am concerned my daughter may have been married in secret and I want to know how she got across the border without parental consent," Lenore Holm said Wednesday.

Her daughter Nichole was 16 when she came across the border last May after Holm objected to her marriage to a 39-year-old Utah polygamist with 10 kids.

[walton]

http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/bustupinbountiful/index.html

ROUBLE IN BOUNTIFUL
In 2003, the fifth estate's Hana Gartner sat down with the then-Bishop of Bountiful in an exclusive interview to talk about his life there, his 26 wives and 80 children, his faith, and allegations of child brides and of abuse in the church's chapter in Canada.

At the time, the picture Winston Blackmore painted of Bountiful was of an idyllic, although secretive, existence. But, in three years, Blackmore's world has changed dramatically. Long considered a rival to Warren Jeffs, Blackmore was finally ex-communicated from the FLDS church for questioning Jeffs' predictions that the world was going to end. This split the Bountiful community into two, those choosing to follow Winston Blackmore and those that remained loyal to the new prophet, Warren Jeffs.

The split has turned brother against brother, sister against sister, and ultimately family against family in Bountiful. Winston Blackmore is clear who is responsible for the situation, Warren Jeffs. "He has ruined our faith structure, he has ruined our marriage system. He has ruined our educational values. It is almost hypocrisy to consider that someone is the prophet, the president of a church and they literally spoil and destroy their people."



Lots more at link including video and pictures

[walton]

http://www.rickross.com/reference/polygamy/polygamy334.html

2005

The Oler men, formerly of Bountiful, have returned from the gym and are getting ready to party. Tonight they're going drinking at the local hotel. On Saturday, the plan is to drive to Red Deer to look at dirt bikes. On Easter Sunday, they'll barbecue steaks on the back deck.

Five of them live in a rented four-bedroom house on a cul-de-sac of mobile homes. The youngest, 17-year-old Wendel, sleeps on the couch. They work for Ken Oler, an FLDS member from Bountiful who operates a sawmill just west of town. One of the men is Ken's son. Two are the younger brothers of Jim Oler, the new Bountiful leader. All are related.

The Olers are less talkative than Ray Blackmore, and angrier. Some have been instructed by their parents not to return to Bountiful. Still, 18-year-old Frank sent his mother flowers on Valentine's Day.

At home they're known as "apostates," the name given to group members who leave the church. Among the faithful, apostates are considered more wicked that mainstream Mormons and non-Mormons.

[walton]

http://www.globaltv.com/components/print.aspx?id=1152838&sponsor=

THE ACCUSED:

Polygamous leader Winston Blackmore, 52, has been charged with "practising polygamy" on May 1, 2005, according to provincial court files. Practising polygamy is illegal under Section 293 (1) (a) of the Criminal Code.

James Marion Oler, 44, is the Canadian bishop of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. He ascended to that position after FLDS prophet Warren Jeffs excommunicated Winston Blackmore in 2002.

A mechanic by trade, Oler was an unlikely choice for bishop even though his father was once Bountiful's patriarch. However, he is said to be extremely loyal to Jeffs.

[walton]

http://nvpolygamy.wordpress.com/

A poster called Captain gave me a headsup on this site long ago. There is still lots of good info and pictures there.

I remember the blog owner being extremely nice and very helpful. Thank you Jax. And thank you Captain where ever you may be.

[juliekan]

http://www.sltrib.com/polygamy/ci_11436061

Trials for men from polygamous sect set for October
May 13 » Judge first will hear arguments for throwing out evidence seized at YFZ Ranch.

[juliekan]

http://www.childbrides.org/news_cpac_des_Sundance_Sister_Wife_documentary.htm l

Sundance: 'Sister Wife' takes look at joys, trials of polygamy


"DoriAnn is someone who experiences it fully. She's hating life and embracing it. She still wants to stay there. She wants a third wife to come into the picture, thinking it would bring balance," Orschel said of her film's subject. "It's a complicated, difficult life and I think that she feels if she rises above these earthly obstacles then that helps her become more ... "

[juliekan]

http://www.prlog.org/10169551-survivior-of-viliolent-polygamious-cult-shares-her-story.html

Survivior of Violent Polygamous Cult Shares Her Story

PRLog (Press Release) – Jan 19, 2009 – First time author Kim Taylor has surprised members of her small community, including some of her family and friends, with the release of her tragic memoirs in a book that reads stranger than fiction. For the first time ever, the easy-going Oregon housewife shares in detail the fascinating events that took place in her young life.
Detailing the beginning of the gruesome legacy of Ervil LeBaron, now sometimes referred to as “The Mormon Manson,” Daughters of Zion will be of special interest to those who remember the shocking events that stunned the inhabitants of Houston, Texas on June 27, 1988. Soon known as “The Four o’Clock Murders,” this violent tragedy captured the attention of the entire nation.


Kim Taylor's website
http://www.justonewife.com/

[juliekan]

http://gosanangelo.com/news/2009/jan...ded-fifth-267/

BREAKING NEWS: FLDS leader pleaded Fifth 267 times
By Paul A. Anthony (Contact)
Originally published 11:36 a.m., January 28, 2009
Updated 12:36 p.m., January 28, 2009

Jessop, a top leader of the polygamous Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints that runs the Schleicher County ranch, invoked the Fifth Amendment 267 times on questions as minor as whether he drives a car and as significant as whether his now-14-year-old daughter was involved in a sexual relationship with sect leader Warren Jeffs.

[juliekan]

Merril Jessop's Deposition

http://media.gosanangelo.com/sast/content/static/Merril_Jessop_depo.pdf

[juliekan]

New FLDS Prophet Ordained in a Twist of Fate
changed name from Timpson to Jessop

http://www.childpro.org/newsletter/PolygamyNews0108.pdf

From January 2008

[juliekan]

Warren Jeffs' Personal Priesthood Records

FLDS spokesman Willie Jessop's deposition

YFZ Ranch leader Merril Jessop's deposition

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

scroll down to almost the bottom of the page

[lotty]

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/6420ap_id_polygamist_sect.html
Last updated February 15, 2009 2:03 p.m. PT

North Idaho polygamist sect drawing new scrutiny
By BILL MORLIN
THE SPOKESMAN-REVIEW

Records on file in Washington County, Utah, show a marriage license was issued in 1989 in that FLDS community to Shem Erick Johnson and Margo Wyler. But in a notarized deed filed in December in Kootenai County and signed by Johnson, he claims he is an "unmarried man."

[walton]

http://www.sltrib.com/ci_11844447
by Brooke Adams

The details of how Jeffs exercised this control -- mostly over his large family and those of hand-picked members sent to a remote Texas ranch -- are contained in pages of his daily diary. The entries are included as exhibits in a court proceeding and released as public documents by San Angelo, Texas, Judge Barbara Walther.

[juliekan]

http://www.co.tom-green.tx.us/ips/cms/districtcourt/DCCalendar.html

District Courts Calendar for Tom Green County

[walton]

http://tripleap.org/

All I am saying is that this is a MUST READ. :thumbsup:

[juliekan]

http://www.house.state.tx.us/committ...mitteeCode=310

click on 4/14/09 for the House of Representatives Human Services Committee Meeting

[walton]

http://texasflds.wordpress.com/

Many court documents and in depth conversations can be found here.

[juliekan]

http://coramnonjudice.blogspot.com/2009/10/what-denial-of-flds-motion-to-suppress.html

Tuesday, October 6, 2009
What the Denial of the FLDS Motion to Suppress Means

In Judge Walther's order, she made 66 findings of fact and 20 conclusions of law. Aside from the obvious fact that this ruling means that the evidence from the search warrants gets into the trials, what does this mean?

Very good analysis by TBM

[juliekan]

Well I just looked, and the editor they had following this story recently now no longer has an "address" with gosanangelo.com.

I sent an e-mail suggesting they pay attention to this story.

Maybe some of you would like to, also.

http://www.gosanangelo.com/staff/tim-archuleta/contact/

[juliekan]

or here, to the "webmaster'

http://www.gosanangelo.com/staff/webmaster/contact/

[juliekan]

http://txbluesman.wordpress.com/

new connection

[juliekan]

http://166.70.44.68/blogs/plurallife/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/Hispanics.pdf

Now the FLDS is off on another wild goose chase.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Hispanics are the largest minority in the country, and 70 percent identify themselves as Catholic.

http://www.catholic.com/thisrock/2005/0509fea3.asp

Why would the FLDS want more hispanics, who may be Catholic, on the grand jury? The Catholics I know would not be any more supportive of the FLDS live-style. jmo

[juliekan]

http://txbluesman.wordpress.com/2009/10/16/the-flds-motion-to-quash/

The FLDS Motion to Quash – UPDATED

[juliekan]

DNA Experts, 1st FLDS Trial

http://txbluesman.wordpress.com/2009/10/20/dna-experts-1st-flds-trial/

here's one of them:

•Farah Plopper. She has testified in a number of trials where DNA was in question, including one where a man was charged with the sexual assault of his daughter resulting in a child. DNA of the baby proved that he was the father of the baby.

[juliekan]

Several new good articles here...tired of talking to myself, so this will be my last post until someone else shows up to talk to.

http://txbluesman.wordpress.com/

[juliekan]

Last post, i swear...

http://texasflds.wordpress.com/2009/10/21/whats-my-line/

Right out of the gate, Willie steps up and identifies exactly who he is and who he “represents”:

1.FLDS member
2.“duly authorized representative” of FLDS
3.Member of the UEP beneficiary class

Is that the same thing as “spokesman”? Just curious because Willie doesnt mention who authorized him and what they authorized him to do on their behalf.

[juliekan]

Hi :smile: glad to see some are still stopping by...

found this on K Dee's facebook

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/10/24/earlyshow/saturday/main5417421.shtml

(CBS) Jury selection is slated to begin Monday in the trial of the first of 12 male members of a Texas polygamist sect whose ranch state officials raided last year.

"What the jury's going to hear, though, my understanding (is), is DNA evidence establishing paternity and maternity, and they were not able to get DNA for a lot of these children to determine who belongs to whom. But for the men charged, I believe they have the evidence."

Let's hope so....

[juliekan]

Texski... this is probably your best bet:

http://www.myeldorado.net/

local newspaper, i believe Walton has even talked with them.

you have to subscribe, though, and cannot post whatever you read here other than you read something there. i believe i will maybe subscribe to them now that the trials are starting up. nothing like helping out a small town business :thumbsup:

also
http://www.gosanangelo.com/

closest "big" town to Eldorado, used to have Paul Anthony who followed all this for the paper, but he has moved on. when i wrote them a month ago, asking who they have dedicated to this story, i got nothing back but a robo "thank you for reading our web pages."

actually, here's their newest story (by michael kelly who i e-mailed last month :glare:)

http://www.gosanangelo.com/news/2009/oct/24/flds-trial-begins-monday/

[juliekan]

here's some more texski, from http://texasflds.wordpress.com/

http://trenthead.com/polygamy/

http://www.perrybulwer.com/

http://www.perrybulwer.com/religion-and-child-abuse-news/

haven't looked at any of them yet, but I know Trent is a photographer that has worked with Brooke Adams http://166.70.44.68/blogs/plurallife/

[juliekan]

hi tex...

I know that Walton notified people earlier asking the same thing...I don't know who will show up, but I do know that K Dee says she will be there. Do you do facebook? I just have one, don't really "do" it (post anything). If you join facebook, you can request her as a friend (pm me if you're interested.)

here's K Dee's blog

http://tripleap.blogspot.com/

maybe she'll post updates here, from the trials.

i've only got use of DH's laptop at night, mine died. tomorrow will be a long day of silence for me, unless i head to the library to use their's and see what's happening. Have encouraged DH to get home early :laugh:

[texski]

well i have joined google . loved that texas web page, especially the battle flag picture. i cannot imagine women in 1836 using a flag with a lady with one breast exposed. that is surely the foreperson of the womens liberation movement. it will be interesting to see the makeup of the jury pool. by sex and by race. we have all waited so long for some action and now it is here.
anyone here have an idea who the ideal jury would be? anyone remember who the jury members were in the utah trial ?

[walton]

http://tripleap.tumblr.com/

K.Dee shares her view on todays events. Just click play.

[walton]

http://www.gosanangelo.com/news/2009/oct/26/judge-lawyers-in-jessop-trial-sift-panel-as-jury/

The judge in a child sexual assault trial that is receiving media attention from as far away as England and France was optimistic late Monday that she’d be able to dismiss many of the more than 150 members of a jury panel soon after their return at 9 a.m. today.

Defendant Raymond Merril Jessop is accused of sexually assaulting a child, an underage girl he is alleged to have taken as a wife. The clean-cut 38-year-old resident of the YFZ Ranch and member of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints could serve two to 20 years in prison if found guilty.

[walton]

http://myeldorado.net/ Randy and Kathy will keep us updated

[walton]

http://www.gosanangelo.com/news/2009/nov/03/attorneys-spar-over-evidence-in-jessop-trial/

A computer cop delivered what could be bad news Tuesday evening for a polygamist sect member accused of sexually assaulting an underage girl in November 2004 at the Yearning for Zion Ranch near Eldorado.

[walton]

http://tripleap.tumblr.com/
from K.Dee Ignation

Listen to Mike Watkiss explain the importance of the guilty verdict handed down to Raymond Jessop

Also hear K.Dee share some details of the days events and upcoming events.

The home site:http://tripleap.org// List documents and statements from some of those involved

[juliekan]

http://www.gosanangelo.com/news/2009/aug/10/flds-trials-might-be-held-in-schleicher-county/

Trial schedule

Following is the schedule for trials:

* Raymond Merril Jessop, Oct. 26, sexual abuse of a child.

* Allan Eugene Keate, Dec. 7, sexual abuse of a child.

* Michael Emack, Jan. 25, 2010, sexual abuse of a child.

* Merrill Leroy Jessop, March 8, 2010, sexual abuse of a child and bigamy.

* Lehi Barlow Jeffs, April 26, 2010, sexual abuse of a child and bigamy.

* Abram Harker Jeffs, June 7, 2010, sexual abuse of a child and bigamy.

* Keith William Dutson, July 26, 2010, sexual abuse of a child.

* Wendell Loy Nielson, Sept. 7, 2010, three counts of bigamy.

* Frederick Merril Jessop, Oct. 11, 2010, conducting an unlawful marriage ceremony involving a minor.

* Leroy Johnson Steed, Dec. 6, 2010, first-degree felony sexual assault of a child, second-degree felony bigamy, third-degree felony bigamy and third-degree felony tampering with physical evidence.

[GossipGirl]

I get this magazine saw this lead-in story. It's pretty basic, with not a lot of info we don't all ready have, but it does touch gently on Carolyn Jessop being his only wife that left with her kids and wrote a book. She is not interviewed, however, nor is there more than a passing glance onto the Lost Boys.
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2010/02/polygamists/anderson-text

GG

[Cait48]

I saw this story on NatGeo TV last week about Prophet Blackmore. Not something I subscribe to but interesting.