Care of sect could top $5 million (YFZ/fLDS Daily Thread

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.

I wonder if anything changes legally if YFZ isn't "church" property, but rather "private" property:

Investigator Sam Brower, who works for the law firm that represents plaintiff Brent Jeffs, said he wanted to deliver the summons directly to Warren Jeffs but adds that he really didn't expect to see the prophet. Merrill Jessop, who met the men at the ranch gate, reportedly told Brower and Sheriff Doran that he wasn't aware if Warren Jeffs had ever been to the YFZ Ranch. "He added that if Warren had actually been here it was only occasionally," Brower said.

Doran met with Brower at the Sheriff's Office where he verified the investigator's license through the State of Utah and reviewed the summons before taking him to the ranch gate. Once there the sheriff placed a call from his cellular phone to the ranch and asked that someone meet him at the gate.

It took nearly an hour, but Merrill Jessop and Paul Allred finally came to the gate to meet with Doran and Brower. At that time the men asked to see Warren Jeffs and was told he wasn't on the property. Brower then gave the summons to Jessop in his capacity as a church official.

But Jessop denied that the YFZ Ranch is associated with the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints saying that instead the property is owned by private businessmen.

http://www.myeldorado.net/YFZ%20Pages/YFZ081904a.html

The numbers don't add up. There were over 100 mothers, right? Only 7 chose to go back? How many are dozens? How many mothers have actually been separated?

The last I heard, the number of "mothers" had declined by 50 or so from the initial reports. About 460 or so are now considered underage. Whether that's considered underage by the determinations of CPS, confession/deception by the young women or what, I do not know.

In his quasi-official 1966 book Mormon Doctrine, which remains in print, the late LDS Apostle Bruce R. McConkie wrote that "the holy practice will commence again after the Second Coming and the ushering in of the millennium."

BAH!

That ain't scripture!

It's got no bonafides!!!

--MormonDude(Nothing but SCRIPTURE for me!!! [Uh... except that pesky D&C #132 thingy!] )

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Care of sect could top $5 million

Web Posted: 04/25/2008 11:37 PM CDT