Posted on 05/01/2008 6:01:31 AM PDT by MizSterious
FLDS doctor denies abuse at YFZ Ranch |
| By Heather May and Brooke Adams The Salt Lake Tribune Salt Lake Tribune |
| Article Last Updated:05/01/2008 01:20:20 AM MDT |
| The physician who cares for the polygamous community now in the national spotlight - and who has treated its prophet in a Utah jail - is described by his mentor as "very kind, very sensitive, very concerned." Lloyd H. Barlow, a member of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, graduated from the University of Utah's School of Medicine in 1995. He completed a one-year internship in internal medicine in 1996, and then did a family medicine residency at the U. that ended in 1999. Barlow oversees a health clinic in Hildale, the sect's traditional home base, and its Texas clinic at its YFZ Ranch. Texas authorities allege there is a pattern of sexual abuse of underage girls at the ranch; and on Wednesday an official said at least 41 children there have had broken bones. He also said young boys may have been sexually abused. Barlow flatly denies that any child abuse occurred at the ranch. "There is not," Barlow said. "The parents are very loving and caring parents, as I believe [Texas child welfare officials] could attest given the stresses put on them over the past three weeks and observing them. The parents are very much interested in the care and well-being of their children." He added: "It is part of our belief system that the way to teach and train children is to deal with them and train them in kindness." Physicians are legally required to report cases of suspected child abuse - something Barlow said he would have done if he found such evidence. Texas authorities would not comment Wednesday on whether investigations include whether anyone failed to report abuse of children at the ranch. Barlow said children with serious illnesses or injuries were treated at health care facilities outside the ranch, and police found receipts for such care, court records show. There have been no public complaints against Barlow or discipline by licensors in Utah or Texas. Physician Marc E. Babitz was Barlow's faculty supervisor during his residency program and worked with him at a now-closed family practice clinic in Salt Lake City. "He was really a very fine student and a very fine resident. He put the welfare of his patients as his top priority," said Babitz, who once visited Barlow at the Hildale clinic. He said he was once introduced to one of Barlow's wives. Until Barlow completed his medical degree, Hildale and the adjoining FLDS town of Colorado City, Ariz., had a single nurse practitioner to rely on. "He made a huge difference to health care in this area," said Joanne Yarrish, a certified nurse midwife in nearby Centennial Park. Barlow repeatedly visited then-ailing sect leader Warren S. Jeffs in the Washington County jail in the spring of 2007. Jeffs was awaiting trial and was later convicted of two first-degree felony counts of rape as an accomplice for his role in a 2001 spiritual marriage between a 14-year-old follower and her 19-year-old cousin. --- * JULIA LYON contributed to this report. |
Right.
Setting up a visitation schedule is “allowing no communication”. They allowed women to stay with children, which is NEVER done. These people have been coddled.
Anyway, I think no communication would be appropriate, due to the manipulation of the children by these “innocent” adults.
Innocent people do not herd children around to avoid investigators, they do not tell children to lie to investigators, they do not switch names, children, and clothing to confuse the people who are caring for their children, and they do NOT scratch out the names on id bracelets!!!
Knocking and being allowed in is not an “invasion”.
I’d like to read that, what post is it at?
Now I understand. My misinterpretation ....your previous comments confirm your common sense & pursuit of justice since the beginning of this nightmare;)
I don’t know any parent who would not be paralyzed by fear if a young daughter joined such a cult as this. I am confident every one posting to this thread would try to get the assistance of law enforcement, CPS or any other remedy available for the protection of their own child.
No problem, I misread someone’s post myself, just last night in fact.
It was in the first reports.
Wrong, do the math. If 1% of all children break a bone each year, then 18% of all the children would have broken a bone, on average. If it's only 10%, then that is only half the average.
Among my children, the rate is closer to 80%. I find it hard to imagine growing up without breaking a bone somewhere along the way. But then again, my children don't spend all day in the house playing video games. Any kids who climb trees will eventually fall and break something.
...join the women’s team.
In most of America the right of passage for girls in their teen years is a boyfriend, wearing make up or getting a driver’s license. With the flds its marriage, first baby, and quaaludes.
Is there a link to that? I don’t even know what WE stands for.
Post #11 on this thread.
Days Of Our Wives: 4-Star Review for Documentary on Texas Polygamists and their baby graveyard
Where are the arrests of these 'innocent' adults? It seems that we have had a conviction without even an arrest or trial.
Innocent people do not herd children around to avoid investigators, they do not tell children to lie to investigators, they do not switch names, children, and clothing to confuse the people who are caring for their children, and they do NOT scratch out the names on id bracelets!!!
May I suggest you read the book, The Constitution in Exile, by Andrew Napolitano, if you believe that the authorities are your friends.
That’s very standard post-medical school/pre-licensing training.
If a person REALLY wanted their child to be safe, they would make sure he or she was properly identified while in custody.
These women don’t care. They shouldn’t have been there in the first place, and yet they created as much chaos as possible.
This is sounding more and more like the old witch trials. If the children refuse to cooperate it is evidence that they were abused, if they cooperate it is evidence that they were abused.
If I had been taken from my parents when I was a child I would not have helped my captors in any way shape or form. Why is that so hard to understand?
Even today if I am pulled over for a traffic violation and the officer asks me if I know why I was pulled over, I tell him that since he doesn't know then maybe he should go back to his car. Of course I say it with a smile and it never works, but I have a 100% record in court.
That’s stupid.
So these women are too vindictive and immature to understand that “their” children will be safer and more easily accessible for visitation if they are correctly identified? Instead they act like children? They cannot grasp reality?
My 9 year old can understand that concept.
The children may not have cooperated but it was the parents who should have.
If my child was swept up with a group of other children, I’d be right there with my ID, the child’s birth certificate, photograph, social security and probably his vaccination record and my lawyer!
These parents did none of that. They provided false information, removed ID bracelets, rubbed the writing off them and switched children and in some reports even clothing in order to confuse the identities of children as well as their parentage or family group affiliation.
That behavior was not intended to protect their children, it was intended to protect the men who are at risk of being charged with crimes against the children.
It served no purpose other than to delay and allow the men time to gather their wits and resources. I bet some of them are already on the lam.
Thanks! I had read it but not connected it with the name.
On the OTHER thread ... there were these qoutes from the Dr. and the FLDS Rep.
“Lloyd Barlow, the ranch’s onsite physician, said he was caring for a number of FLDS children with broken or fractured bones at the time they were removed from the ranch.”
“Any kids who climb trees will eventually fall and break something. “
Are the children at the FLDS allowed to climb trees?
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