Posted on 04/26/2008 6:56:59 AM PDT by MizSterious
Care of sect could top $5 million
Web Posted: 04/25/2008 11:37 PM CDT
Bus convoys carrying 265 children bound for foster homes around the state pulled out of San Angelo at midday Friday, ending a three-week emergency shelter operation launched in the wake of a raid on a West Texas polygamist sect. The cost of the massive effort, which cared for 462 children and, at one point, more than 100 mothers, could top $5 million, a source familiar with the operation there said. The governor's office said Friday it did not have final cost figures. The job was unprecedented for Texas: 900 people from state agencies and contracting organizations created and staffed a community for the children and mothers. "It was an unbelievable effort. To watch all the moving parts from the get-go was an amazing experience. There hasn't been a point when anyone could stop and take a breath," said Patrick Crimmins, spokesman for Texas Child Protective Services. The costs for San Angelo alone were $60,000 a day for police and other personnel, said Rep. Drew Darby, R-San Angelo. He said he could not guess what the state's cost was but said he "would not be shocked" if the figure was $5 million. "There were very wide-ranging expenses," including hundreds of state workers who traveled to San Angelo, he said.
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Whew! I thought that was the case, thanks for confirming it. Agreed, any one who was an accessory to statutory rape should also be punished to the full extent of the law, and then some!
As for the rest of the FLDS folks, I hope they bankrupt the county!
You should have captioned some of the adults, too: “NOT smiling”—talk about grim faces!!
Now that's called snowin' one over on you!!! LOL
I nominate this as "Couplet of the Year!!!"
Sorry, the FLDS folks who don't fall into the first two categories...didn't live in the compound. They suffered no loss and they get nothing either. The only people who are going to get any large sums of money in this deal, will be the FLDS lawyers. They won't be getting any of it from the taxpayers, since the FLDS failed to move to California where their lifestyle is applauded.
LOL
Of course, from Gordon B. Hinckley's perspective, you mean xLDS, not fLDS. Hinckley said there was no reason for the f to be next to LDS.
I saw a pic of someone called Willie Jessop yesterday and I have to say he was handsome. He reminded me of the late actor Robert Urlich.
So the little girl running to the bus wasn’t the only happy one?
Imagine that.
There is something particulary vile about teaching women that their eternal happiness depends on them accepting polygamy.
That thought only comes from one place. SATAN.
Rescued children
Try foxit, it is a much better program than adobe for PDF files and it’s free.
Church lady?
http://www.rickross.com/reference/polygamy/polygamy360.html
There isn’t anything useful at the link, it is just a thought that I like the tone of, and if it is an accurate opinion by the pilot, then who knows what will happen if these guys walk and it looks like they got away with an OJ type deal.
Some Texas millionaires may mess with them.
Former body guard to the "prophet" and said to be one of the most powerful men in the Texas compound today. "You know it seems like whenever they're in trouble they call in Big Willie to just kind of run the show," said Sam Brower, a private detective who has spent the past five years tracking Warren Jeffs' flock across several western states.
Dang, what was I thinking? lol
Here is a link to the picture I saw where I thought he looked like Robert Urlich. One of the photos in the gallery.
#4.
http://www.deseretnews.com/photo/gallery/story/1,5417,695273691,00.html
In essence I dismissed the motion and even said this was to be expected and that the pertinent info was in the attachments. On multiple threads, the conversation has been on the initial phone calls and statements on affidavits and warrants. If I could have found them somewhere else, I would have, but alas I couldn't. And since you didn't bother to READ the simple words "pertinent info in the attachments", you go on a rant and can't be bother with things called facts.
14 year old Ruby (Jessop) was married illegally and in secret to her step-brother, Havin Barlow, in the polygamous community of Hildale Utah on April 23, 2001. The FLDS Church , which controls this community, expects that when a girl becomes sexually mature, she will be married off to an older polygamous male of the FLDS leadership choosing.
The marriage was blessed by her step father, Fred Jessop, 2nd councilor to the prophet and officiated by Warren Jeffs, first councilor to the prophet, who has now become Prophet since his father, Rulon Jeffs, died.
Ruby was married against her own choice. 3 weeks later Ruby ran away in an attempt to avoid her fate. She went to her brother's house, where she thought she would be safe. Her brother, Joe C. Jessop Jr., thought he could protect her. He couldn't!
The following weekend at Quail Creek Reservoir in Utah, Ruby was taken by deception and returned to Fred Jessop's home. When the Washington County Sheriff investigated days later, the FLDS leadership replied that the juvenile was on vacation for an undetermined length of time. We now know that during that time she was at a polygamous enclave in Idaho undergoing discipline and re-education for attempting to leave the group.
A month later Ruby was allowed to meet with a representative of the Utah DCFS. Members of FLDS were with her so that she was not free to express herself. She'd been held in seclusion under their control for a month.
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