I don’t think that it is ok at all. I’m just tired of saying so. I had a pretty good feeling from the beginning that the phone call was bogus, and if I could tell it was bogus, so could the authorities.
So, they grabbed all the kids and gave them internal exams to check for sexual abuse, interrogated them about their parents and living conditions and separated all the older boys who seemed to be the leaders and sent them to a “boys ranch”, which was described as a place for all sorts of boys (tough love kind of place), but the YFZ boys were being kept separated from the the rest of the boys.
So, the only way that they can prove that statutory rape occurred is to prove that some girls became mothers before the age of 18. That’s where they are now. Maybe they ought to go to the local high school and drag in all the pregnant girls, or the local Indian reservation, and see if they can arrest anyone for statutory in those cases, and in the mean time, they can haul off all the illegitimate kids of teen age mothers. It takes a village, you know and all that.
The cult may be dangerous, but this sure isn’t the way to go about proving it. They may have stopped the under age marriages after Jeffs got arrested. We don’t know, but I’ll bet that we will find out when the the cult takes the state to court.
Then what IS the way of going about proving it?
You have expertise in this area I take it?
What did they do wrong and what would you have done right?