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2. The idea being advanced that only certain girls (the pregnant teens) or only the female children should have been taken into custody is way, way off. Either every child should have been removed or not a single one should have been removed. If this ranch was what the state claims it was, every adult there was was involved in or knew about a conspiracy to commit serial child sexual abuse. In other words, either the state is lying or there's not a single adult there who should have custody of a child.

I do not buy this line. Would be nice but life is not so simple as this.

[Mr. Silverback]

I do not buy this line. Would be nice but life is not so simple as this.

Could you elaborate? Is it your contention that the average mom at YFZ didn't know that her daughters would be expected to enter into arranged marriages?

[oneolcop]

Perhaps it would help if the FLDS was defined not as a church or a cult but as organized crime. That's what it is. Obviously not the children, not all the women, but the "leadership" and most of the adult -mature- males and females.

They have brainwashed the children for generations to get them to go along with the program and they have rewarded those who have done so.