Posted on 04/06/2008 5:27:22 AM PDT by SkyPilot
Local and state officials entered the temple of a secretive polygamist sect late Saturday, said lawmen blockading the road to the YFZ Ranch near Eldorado.
The action comes hours after local prosecutors said officials were preparing for the worst because a group of FLDS members were resisting efforts to search the structure.
The Texas Department of Public Safety trooper and Schleicher County sheriff’s deputy confirmed that officials have entered the temple but said they had no word on whether anything occurred in the effort.
The incursion into the temple caps the three-day saga of the state’s Child Protective Services agency removing at least 183 women and children from the YFZ Ranch since Friday afternoon. Eighteen girls have been placed in state custody since a 16-year-old told authorities she was married to a 50-year-old man and had given birth to his child.
Saturday evening, ambulances were brought in, said Allison Palmer, who as first assistant 51st District attorney, would prosecute any felony crimes uncovered as part of the investigation inside the compound.
“In preparing for entry to the temple, law enforcement is preparing for the worst,” Palmer said Saturday evening. They want to have “medical personnel on hand in case this were to go in a way that no one wants.”
Apparently as a result of action Saturday night at the ranch, about 10:15 p.m. Saturday, a Schleicher County school bus unloaded another group of at least a dozen more women and children from the compound.
Although members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, or FLDS, have provided varying degrees of cooperation to the sheriff’s deputies and Texas Rangers searching the compound, all cooperation stopped once authorities tried to search the gleaming white temple that towers over the West Texas scrub, Palmer said.
“There may be those who would oppose (entry) by placing themselves between law enforcement and the place of worship,” Palmer said Saturday afternoon. “If an agreement cannot be reached … law enforcement will have to — as gently and peaceably as possible — make entry into that place.”
Sect members consider the temple, dedicated by then-leader of the sect Warren Jeffs in January 2005 and finished many months later, off-limits to those who are not FLDS members, said Palmer, who prosecutes felony cases in Schleicher County.
Palmer said she didn’t know the size or makeup of the group inside the temple.
The earlier refusal to provide access was even more disconcerting because CPS investigators have yet to identify the 16-year-old girl or her roughly 8-month-old baby among the dozens removed from the compound, Palmer said.
“Anytime someone says, ‘Don’t look here,’” she said, “it makes you concerned that’s exactly where you need to look.”
The girl told authorities in two separate phone calls a day apart that she was married to a 50-year-old man, Dale Barlow, who had fathered her child, Palmer said.
The joint raid included the Texas Rangers, CPS, Schleicher County and Tom Green County sheriff’s deputies and game wardens from the Texas Department of Parks and Wildlife.
Although CPS and Department of Public Safety officials have described the compound’s residents as cooperative, Palmer disagreed.
“Things have been a little tense, a little volatile,” she said.
Authorities removed 52 children Friday afternoon and 131 women and children overnight Friday. About 40 of the children are boys, said CPS spokeswoman Marleigh Meisner.
No further children have been taken into state custody since Friday, when 18 girls were judged to have been abused or be at imminent risk for abuse. CPS has found foster homes for the girls, Meisner said, and will place them after concluding its investigation.
Meisner declined to comment on the fate of the 119 other children and said authorities were still searching the ranch for others Saturday evening.
“They’re in the process of looking,” she said. “They’re literally about halfway through.”
Boo hoo
The LDS Organization, Inc.® was started by an ignorant, 14 yo farmboy, with no bible knowledge, being deceived by two satanic messangers.
Welcome to playing with the TarBaby!
BTTT,,,
MormonDude...
Thank you :)
That poor wee girl IS in a hurry...
At least she is rescued out of that evil lifestyle...
Yeah she’s getting them out of there but who? Her mom or the other wives?
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
She could be 13 or so........
“God Gave David his wives, that means God approved of them, God does not change therefore he still approves of Polygamy. This is a simple point to understand ...” You’ve defended this evil long enough, now. It is time you stopped to look at what the obligation of David was when Saul was slain. God did not give David an obligation to ‘raise up children unto Saul’ thus there was no admonition to have sexual congress with Saul’s wives and concubines. Refer to Hebrew Torah/Tenach. David WAS given an obligation to bring these under a household protection rather than turning them out into poverty. David’s sexual congress with them was his sin, not something God ordained. You mormonism apologists disgust me sometimes, DU. How can you continue to defend polygamy even in your perverted way with this story glaring at people?
Meant to ping you folks ...
I would suggest evil, but that might be getting too 'personal'. I would suggest though, that this sick defense of this evil polygamist pedophiliac rapist cult by mainstream LDS indicates that the LDS do support this repugnant behavior; which means there is absolutely no difference between the LDS and FLDS.
And if they say otherwise, its just more "Lying for the Lord" in an attempt to make this evil rot they call a religion more palatable to the uninformed.
Another videro...
Warning: a mormon woman is cursing in it...
A mormon thing
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=4609060
I think I’m going to mix up a small batch of martini for what is surely to follow our exposing of this cult (not the fLDS, The LDS). Lord hold our tongues from saying what falls upon our hearts! Too many readers haven’t a clue, gramma.
I'm thinking about cutting and pasting and providing links to some of these sick comments to Shep Smith on Fox, so the next time he tries to say, "The FLDS is not Mormons" he may be corrected.
I got the impression that they were worried about how to stay in contact with their wives.
I guess you could either have the women get the property or sell it and give them the money.
My thoughts were that if the men were living off the welfare of their wives, they’d have no personal income, themselves, and if they were in jail, they would not be able to support them.
I got the impression that they were worried about how to stay in contact with their wives.
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Typical abuser behavior...
Must control the victims...
It’s all about them...
Probably want to make sure they get to tell the woman to be quiet about incriminating items...
Thanks for the video link - wow. “Defy the church and you go to hell”. Guess its up to us anti’s to instruct them ‘STAY IN THE CHURCH and you go to hell”......
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