Posted on 04/08/2008 7:12:23 PM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
APRIL 8--Forced marriage and sexual abuse were "pervasive" inside the Texas compound of a polygamist sect raided last week by investigators, according to child welfare officials seeking custody of more than 400 children removed from the religious group's sprawling YFZ Ranch. In a harrowing District Court affidavit, a Child Protective Services investigator charged that the children were placed in risk of "emotional, physical and/or sexual abuse" at the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints facility, where female children were groomed to "accept spiritual marriages to adult male members of the YFZ Ranch resulting in them being sexually abused." Similarly, investigator Lynn McFadden noted, young men on the YFZ Ranch were "spiritually married to minor female children," with whom they engaged in sexual relationships, becoming, in the process, sexual "perpetrators." The McFadden affidavit, which was filed today in court, was provided to TSG by the San Angelo Standard-Times. A copy of the document can be found below. The government raid on the compound was triggered after a 16-year-old mother called a family violence center and reported that she had been abused by her 50-year-old husband and was seeking help in departing the property, according to the affidavit. The girl, who has yet to be located, identified her abuser as Dale Barlow, a 50-year-old registered sex offender who pleaded no contest last year to conspiring to have sex with a minor.
[6 page affidavit included on website, here.]
How can a sex offender recently convicted of conspiring to have sex with a minor be out of jail and so poorly supervised that he can live in a closed community with dozens of young girls around?
Gosh... isn't that the Mormons???
Have his name changed legally to "Scott Ritter"...? [::rimshot::] ;)
Seriously, however: I know. The mind just... boggles, is all.
“The girl, who has yet to be located, identified her abuser as Dale Barlow, a 50-year-old registered sex offender who pleaded no contest last year to conspiring to have sex with a minor.”
Sounds like they need to rename their religious sect to the “Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Child Molestors”.
How can an entire country be so obsessed with sex and alleged sex crimes? A Puritan paradise, where, nowadays, every Caucasian male is either a convicted or as yet unconvicted sexual harasser, child molester, guilty until proven otherwise (don’t argue, I’ve been there), but we all agree to bestow a clean, groovy euphemism that is a synonym of the word ‘merry’ on pederasts’! It all boggles the mind...
I wonder if any of the FLDS plural “wives” are collecting welfare or other assistance?
I wonder if any of the FLDS plural “wives” are collecting welfare or other assistance?
Somehow I bet they wern’t.
Ping.
NO NO NO A THOUSAND TIMES NO THOSE ARE NOT MORMONS . . . but you already knew that.
Funny how we never heard of these things until Romney came onto the National scene.
Waco.
And how utterly gutless they would be against a Moslem compound doing the same thing, which would be explained away in a blizzard of "cultural sensitivity" and "respect for diversity" platitudes.
I’m far from a follower of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (to me, a cult), however, I refuse to condemn an entire church over the vagaries of and offshoot sect (Westboro Baptist Church come to mind).
I recall a case of the prosecution of another polygamist and among the charges was welfare fraud.
“Funny how we never heard of these things until Romney came onto the National scene.”
This sect contains a bunch of evil satanic perverted nut jobs. This has nothing whatsoever to do with the true LDS Church or Mitt Romney.
The Fundamentalist whackjobs are not Mormons. I am thankful to Heavenly Father that these monsters are exposed and I hope they spend the rest of their miserable lives in prison or better yet executed like the dogs they are.
The media likes to portray them in such a way as to make them up to be some kind of Mormons which they are not!
“I refuse to condemn an entire church over the vagaries of and offshoot sect “
Thank you.
As far as I’m concerned, the adult women in that cult are just as bad as the men and they should go to prison, too. This is ghastly! Thank God Almighty the children are out of that hell hole.
They are single mothers so they probably were...
It has a relationship to the Ervil LeBaron group ~ remember them? Another Church of the First Born operation in Texas ~ ol' Erv murdered 39 people according to one of his nieces being interviewed on a talkshow yesterday.
Granny Hollob, David Koresh' Grandmother (and remember David? ~ Waco, fire, FBI, guns) ~ anyway, she belonged to a Church of the First Born in Texas.
And then there's Bill Clinton. His Baby Daddy, Billy Blythe, was an elder in the Church of the First Born in Hope, Arkansas.
Do you see a pattern?
Remember the little kid whose parents would feed him only lettuce and watermelon? They were Church of the First Born. Caught'em headed for a Church of the First Born up in Oregon ~ see Christmas Valley ~ and those ol'boys have added stuff from the Tony and Susan Alamo movement. Got a recruiting brochure right here.
Any situation that gives you David Koresh, Bill Clinton, Ervil LeBaron, Susan Alamo, Billy Blythe and Warren Jeffs tied in together is definitely not going to end up happy.
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