Posted on 01/20/2006 6:05:49 AM PST by Utah Binger
AG is pressed on polygamy
Hearing on 'lost boys' bill becomes a critique of state's effort to stop abuse
By Kirsten Stewart The Salt Lake Tribune
A legislative hearing Thursday on providing some legal relief to throwaway youths turned into an inquiry into state efforts to crack down on abuse in polygamous communities.
Attorney General Mark Shurtleff testified before the Senate Human Services Committee in favor of HB30, which would allow homeless, runaway and forsaken teens to seek legal emancipation from their parents. Shurtleff said the bill would assist in efforts to help the so-called "lost boys" - youths shunned by their elders in polygamous communities straddling the Utah-Arizona border.
Committee members unanimously endorsed HB30, but not before lawmakers pressed the state's top prosecutor for a progress report on enforcement of crimes within polygamous communities. Lawmakers asked Shurtleff if there is more the state could do to penalize polygamists who abandon their children. A Salt Lake City attorney recently prepared a mock-up of a bill that would do just that, said House committee leader Rep. Bradley G. Last. The St. George Republican suggested such a tool might be used by law enforcement to infiltrate notoriously insular polygamous sects. Shurtleff said his attorneys are still reviewing the proposal. But he said most of the "lost boys" he has interviewed shy from prosecution. "They feel their parents are victims as well," said Shurtleff. He acknowledged "we can do more" to crackdown on abuse, but said "in the meantime we have a lot of kids who need help." "This isn't just one or two boys. We have identified well over 400 by name," testified Shurtleff. Shurtleff said most wind up homeless, though they have the skills and desire to work and survive on their own.
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Hey, do a search on polygamy on FR. We have a few who support it, and I suspect a few "actual" polygamists on board, as well.
The really sad thing about this is the brainwashing has brought these kids to such confusion that they don't have a clue about how to conduct themselves in the real world. Also if you think about it the many generations of same line genetics causes numerous problems with demeanor etc.
Hey Bing...you forgot to ping.
I don't have anything to add except that polygamy also effects the throw-away girls from our society. Some of these unwanteded girls get taken-in by (or taken-by) these polygs to be their new wives. The parents of the girls don't mind...they never wanted or cared for them anyway...and there's new blood for the clan. What a deal.........ungh!
Why..... as I came down that Weber Canyon I saw a sign....WELCOME To UTAH...Home of Fisher Beer....What an indictment on the good saints of Utah to see a sign...Home Of Fisher Beer! (use your best bishop/stake president voice to repeat this.)
One of the problems with these people is that they allow the government to support their many children.
Where have you been? Please don't tell me you've been to the Sundance film festival...I'll have to blood atone you.
Next time I see you I will do my special talk. It is just a very funny thing I have had in my repertoire for about thirty years. Check your email. You will be bearing testimony of the truthfullness of the Sugar Knoll. That's where I have been. Last night we had one too many down at Lumpy's though.
Excuse me this version of Polygamy is not what the LDS practiced?
You only know what your mind conjures up and that is very limited, for if you truely understood this Sacred Law your tongue would be still!
It is the Lord who introduce this doctrine, it was not the whim of some men as you like to imply!
Now the real situation is these children who are being abused...I happen to catch some of this on Dr Phil and they are trying to correct this situation.
Any awareness about this should help in ridding this activity and to help those who are afraid to break away!
fools ask foolish questions! LOL
sorry you want to dance but I will set this out! LOL
Nah. Didn't miss them, just stayed quiet and read.
How silly. Please do your preaching someplace else.
Dunno about the LDS church, but if they make it retroactive, my father and his siblings will have a burden lifted from them. My maternal grandmother was the second sister-wife in a polygamous marriage. Always wondered if that made me illegitimate!
May I remind you you are the one who brought LDS in to the conversation!
In the future its best you should not veer off course!:)
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