Ping, new article.
“An attorney for FLDS families in Texas today challenged the state’s claim of a pervasive pattern of underage girls having children, saying the state’s own documents show that just two teenagers in custody are pregnant.
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Of the three teenagers listed as pregnant, Parker said, one is about to turn 18 and another refused to take a pregnancy test, he said.
“That leaves us with one,” he said. Based on that list, Parker said, “I challenge the CPS to come forward with the pregnant minors.”
Chris Van Deusen, a CPS spokesman, said, “The only thing we can say is we’re aware that there are 20 girls who became pregnant, and they were between the ages of 13 and 16.
“That’s not to say that there are 20 now, but at the time theyconceived, they were 13, 14, 15 or 16,” he said. “That establishes that there is some sexual abuse here.”
Parker said the 20 minors the state has identified either as pregnant or mothers actually had children over a 10-year period.”
Even if it is one, one is still too many.
Anyone who trusts the media to accurately report on a Christian community in todays anti-Christian climate, or the State to descend on them with APCs and automatic rifles, or the CPS to abduct hundreds of children when hundreds of them have already been sexually abused murdered or gone missing in their custody, I wouldn’t trust to know what they’re talking about.
That's called statutory rape. Git a rope!
I’m praying for these women. Yes they should have taken their children and escaped. But this cult has been around 75 years, probably these women were raised this way. Even the ones who aren’t underage now, were underage when they were ‘married’ to old men and had their first children. How many abused 14-year-old girls will be brave enough to object to how their 55-year-old husband tells her to raise her children. They are victims too. It makes me sad to see that their children are being taken away. Instead of paying 5 million dollars for the state to take care of these children in mediocre foster care, what about spending that money to help these women be good mothers. These children are young, their mothers didn’t even let anyone abuse them yet. If they learn to live in normal society without these molesters they will be fine. I don’t think we should punish these women who were victimized by this cult. But either way the men who ‘married’ these girls should be thrown in jail and their money should all be taken away for child support for all these kids!