Why didn’t Texas do something sooner. You can look at the women and tell something very wrong with them. Hit in the head too many times or something.
COLORADO CITY, Arizona (Reuters) - In a dusty neighborhood under sheer sandstone cliffs studded with juniper on the Arizona-Utah border, a rare genetic disorder is spreading through polygamous families on a wave of inbreeding.
The twin border communities of Hildale, Utah, and Colorado City, Arizona, have the world's highest known prevalence of fumarase deficiency, an enzyme irregularity that causes severe mental retardation brought on by cousin marriage, doctors say.Arizona has about half the world's population of known fumarase deficiency patients," said Dr. Theodore Tarby, a pediatric neurologist who has treated many of the children at Arizona clinics under contracts with the state.
Tarby met with about 150 FLDS members in November, explaining that the disorder was not caused by tainted drinking water as rumored but by cousin marriage.
The Colorado City/Hildale area has the world's highest incidence of fumarase deficiency,[53] an extremely rare genetic condition which causes severe mental retardation. Geneticists attribute this to the prevalence of cousin marriage between descendants of two of the town's founders, Joseph Smith Jessup and John Yeates Barlow; one local historian reports that 75–80 percent of the double-communities' roughly 10,000 inhabitants are descended from one or both of these men.
Too much waterboarding as babies.
But, hey, if *breaking the baby* is part of their religion, who are we to interfere?
“Hit in the head too many times or something.”
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NOW, read this:
The Colorado City/Hildale area has the world’s highest incidence of fumarase deficiency,[53] an extremely rare genetic condition which causes severe mental retardation.
Geneticists attribute this to the prevalence of cousin marriage between descendants of two of the town’s founders, Joseph Smith Jessup and John Yeates Barlow; one local historian reports that 75–80 percent of the double-communities’ roughly 10,000 inhabitants are descended from one or both of these men
Probably due to the need not to screw up any criminal cases. The question you really should be asking isn't why Texas took 4 years to act, but why haven't Arizona and Utah done anything about this group for over 70 years.