“More than 400 children apprehended April 3 at the Morman sect’s Texas enclave may be subject to genetic testing to sort out family relationships that have confounded welfare authorities
“It just doesn’t seem right,” Blackmore said of the apprehensions.”
Okay I’ll say it: it don’t seem right.
I thought she was a 33 year old from Colorado....
/johnnny/
The welfare fraud is probably a valid investigation. The “they’re getting teenagers pregnant” isn’t.
I would be more inclined to pray that someone would stake blackmore out on an fire ant hill with honey poured on his head.
“BOUNTIFUL, B.C. - B.C. Morman polygamist leader Winston Blackmore says the people of Bountiful are praying for the children in Texas being held in custody by U.S. authorities.
The spiritual leader of Bountiful called the Texas children family, but says he doesn’t know if any are from his commune, located near Creston in B.C.’s Kootenay region.”
“Allegations of sexual abuse in Bountiful haven’t just come from people who have left the community or outsiders tired of seeing very young girls with their babies and shocked by teen pregnancy rates that are at least seven times higher than elsewhere in the province.
Last year at the so-called polygamy summit his wives organized in Creston, Blackmore admitted, “I have married several very young girls in my life.”
He has more than 20 wives and 100-plus children.
Jane Blackmore — Winston’s ex-wife and the former midwife for all of Bountiful — says that the youngest girl she knows of was 14.
“There weren’t many 14-year-olds,” she said in an interview. “But there were lots who were married at 15.”
At a conference in Winnipeg in early 2005, another of Blackmore’s wives, Zelpha Chatwin, said Blackmore had married at least one girl who was 15.
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