> I also find the ousting of the male children at seventeen very revealing.
That is, the ousting at 17 of the male children who were not already a) ousted or killed at a younger age, or b) aborted or "stillborn" because they were male.
I don't have figures for these additional alleged atrocities -- at the moment I can only repeating what's essentially hearsay because the facts haven't come out. I'm hoping they aren't as bad as I've heard and read, but at the moment, nothing would surprise me, given what's already clearly the case.
The FLDS was breeding a Master Race, and indulging in perverse sexual fantasies. All the rest was to support those activities. Read about it -- it's not hard to find references, and Google (or your search of choice) is your friend.
I did the math, based on the reports of numbers of fathers, ‘wives’, children etc and my estimates are that there are about 300 males missing that should be on the compound. IOW, the numbers of females is close to 500 ish and the number of males, including younger children, a few teen boys and ‘fathers’ (GAG!) is only around 150. With birth rates being 50/50-— 300 or so males are unaccounted for.