Posted on 05/02/2008 9:58:51 PM PDT by Politicalmom
Lots of new information, including international sex trafficking.
PING!!
FReepmail to be added to the FLDS Eldorado Legal Case Ping List
Sick stuff. The perversion apologists will be along shortly to defend this child rape cult.
Whatever happened to the legal term “statutory rape”? If those old FLDS lechers aren’t charged with statutory rape of those underage girls, then the law is worthless for protecting innocent young girls from dirty old predatory men.
“A woman, who identified herself as Sarah, had telephoned a crisis-centre hotline, saying she was a 16-year-old at the compound with an eight-month-old baby who had been forced into a marriage with an older man and had been sexually assaulted. She appealed to be rescued.”
This is a lie. This woman does not exist. It was a 33-year-old nut job. Since this is a lie, maybe all the rest of this is a lie, too. I prefer not to trust the government, especially when it comes to “child protection” authorities.
I don’t know why some FReepers are obsessed with trying to justify the raid and kidnapping of helpless innocent children, terrorizing them and whisking them away from their mothers and dumping them in foster homes.
The PR machine keeps pumping out all these articles and some FReepers are falling for it hook, line and stinker.
You cannot be charged under Texas statutory rape laws if you are married to your underage partner.
Because pregnant teenagers have indeed been found, and that is a fact. Because that fact exactly matches allegations cult escapees and cast offs have been making for years The government couldn't retroactively generate those allegations by insiders for PR.. Because some people here on Free Republic were abused as children, and nobody ever came to rescue them.
Knowing about some law enforcement agencies, as I do, I am prepared to accept that some of the “pre-allegations” could be hype. Waco taught us that some feds will lie about anything. What is different here is that the cult has some high powered lawyers; so charges better be pretty air tight, or the Rangers will get their asses sued off.
I’m of the opinion, albeit it humble, that a lot of the charges will stick and result in felony convictions. Rangers aren’t feds and kids shouldn’t be victimized by perverts.
We seem to agree that the men at the ranch are perverted creeps. Where we part company is the rounding up of innocent children, subjecting them to God knows what terrors, dumping them in notoriously horrible foster homes, and separating them from their mothers. I think the mothers need rehabilitating but the way this was done, they are probably more scared and devastated than ever and will never be able to trust the authorities. Unfortunately, it’s a done deal. The kids are destroyed.
Wow, polygamy really is like communism...compelling theory, dangerous actuality.
Fixed it. Legal marriage for underage partners requires government paperwork, as well as parental consent. There is no common law marriage for under age partners in Texas.
Now the CPS has saif these kids won’t be going to the notoriously horrible foster homes. (that may mean other kids will be)
The male leadership of the FLDS cult appears to consist almost entirely of child-rapists and sadistic taskmasters who feel no empathy for their mostly female victims. Up until now, they must’ve thought they’d found Heaven on Earth. If there’s justice in the world, their little bit of Heaven will henceforward become a whole lot of Hell for them...
Many of the men may have been victims themselves at one point. Can they be rehabilitated too? Remember if what has been reported is true then women were also committing crimes.
I notice that many of the U.S. mainstream media articles aren’t this thorough of an expose’. (The international media arrives & cleans their clocks!)
Yes. Communal polygamy is socialistic communism, dictator & all. (The fLDS has been practicing what they call "placement polygamy" since 1950--where partners are strictly controlled by LDS leaders...but it actually was started by Joseph Smith, who even once demanded that all his apostles give up their wives...and people like LDS apostle Heber C. Kimball gave up his 14 yo daughter, Helen Mar Kimball, proxy-like, instead...Smith married 9 to 11 women who were already married to other men).
You are absolutely hilarious, showing absolutely no knowledge of how these kids and wives are already trained to be highly suspicious & phobic of the government by male leaders & husbands.
It's already a well-drilled propagandistic training that keeps folks on their side of the "Berlin wall" so that the other side of the wall is presented as a treacherous environment. If you really knew this daily ingrained attitude, you wouldn't be scurrying about worrying about what some months in a Texas foster home might produce where many of these foster families are indeed Christians...(especially in heavily Baptist-populated Texas).
Yeah, in the "golden"-olden days of mainstream Mormonist polygamy...like the 1870s thru about 1910...when Lds "couples" headed off to Canada to make it wife #2,3,4,5, etc. they didn't even bother with trying to make it "look legal." No, the Mormons of a century-plus ago wouldn't care about breaking Canadian law or U.S. law other than the risk factor. (They had a "principle" of "celestial marriage" to uphold, ya know).
Defending due process is not the same as defending criminals.
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