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Clodfobble · 05-30-2008, 11:05 AM

Fundamentalist church of Latter Day Saints--Mormons. This has been a big news story around here since it happened. Quick summary is: there's a ranch out in the middle of nowhere in Texas run by a breakoff sect of Mormons who believe in polygamy. Hundreds of people live there in this mostly isolated little religious community. Authorities received a phone call from someone claiming to be a pregnant 16-year-old girl who was being abused by her middle-aged husband. Based on that, Child Protective Services raided the ranch and seized over 400 children, over half of which were under the age of 5, claiming abuse. Of those, they claimed that about 30 young women were victims of statutory rape.

They have now had to admit that half of those women were actually adults (one was as old as 27,) they couldn't prove statutory rape claims on any of them, and that none of the 400+ children showed any evidence of abuse.

They're pretty sure the phone call was a hoax from neighbors, and the whole case has been thrown out.

So basically, for almost 2 months now, hundreds of babies and toddlers have been illegally separated from their mothers, and the state is likely to get the shit sued out of them.

05-30-2008, 11:05 AM	#3
Clodfobble UNDER CONDITIONAL MITIGATION Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Austin, TX Posts: 20,012	Fundamentalist church of Latter Day Saints--Mormons. This has been a big news story around here since it happened. Quick summary is: there's a ranch out in the middle of nowhere in Texas run by a breakoff sect of Mormons who believe in polygamy. Hundreds of people live there in this mostly isolated little religious community. Authorities received a phone call from someone claiming to be a pregnant 16-year-old girl who was being abused by her middle-aged husband. Based on that, Child Protective Services raided the ranch and seized over 400 children, over half of which were under the age of 5, claiming abuse. Of those, they claimed that about 30 young women were victims of statutory rape. They have now had to admit that half of those women were actually adults (one was as old as 27,) they couldn't prove statutory rape claims on any of them, and that none of the 400+ children showed any evidence of abuse. They're pretty sure the phone call was a hoax from neighbors, and the whole case has been thrown out. So basically, for almost 2 months now, hundreds of babies and toddlers have been illegally separated from their mothers, and the state is likely to get the shit sued out of them.