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To: Mamzelle

from your link:

Dave Bills, who runs Smiles for Diversity, a foundation in Salt Lake City set up by an ex-FLDS member to look after the Lost Boys, said it was difficult to estimate their numbers because they had been scattered. But Mr Bills said the figures could be “as low as 400 and as high as 1,000”.

“They live every day like it’s their last day and they don’t care about anything,” Mr Bills said. “They’re told they won’t have three wives, and they’re doomed. But they all want to go back to their mums.”

One of the boys, Gideon Barlow, said he was expelled from a FLDS community in Colorado City, Arizona, for wearing short-sleeved shirts, listening to CDs and having a girlfriend. He said his mother rejected him on orders from the sect’s leaders.

“I couldn’t see how my mum would let them do what they did to me,” he told the Los Angeles Times. After his expulsion, he attempted to give her a Mother’s Day present but she told him to stay away. “I am dead to her now,” he said.

Joanne Suder, a lawyer representing some of the Lost Boys in a case against the sect, said there had been “a conspiracy to excommunicate young boys to change the arithmetic so there are more young girls available for polygamy.”

She said some of the boys were simply driven out of town and dumped on the side of the road, leaving them traumatised. “I think anyone who finds themselves ousted from the only environment they ever knew and left in the middle of nowhere, and then is not allowed to be with their family and loved ones, and is led to believe that they can no longer go to heaven, is going to be troubled,” Ms Suder told The Guardian...



143 posted on 04/16/2008 3:29:32 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (a fair dinkum aussie)
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To: Fred Nerks

Sounds like the Christian Brothers at Bindoon. (without the sodomy)


162 posted on 04/16/2008 4:25:57 PM PDT by Oztrich Boy (So you want to be President - it's like reality TV, only real)
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To: Fred Nerks
“I couldn’t see how my mum would let them do what they did to me,” he told the Los Angeles Times. After his expulsion, he attempted to give her a Mother’s Day present but she told him to stay away. “I am dead to her now,” he said.

Crazy cultist bitch. May she rot in hell.

165 posted on 04/16/2008 4:40:18 PM PDT by JRochelle (Q. Where are all the polygamist men?.A. Hiding behind the skirts of their many wives.)
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