...untimely ripped from the Sacred FLDS Tabernacle!
Posted on 05/06/2008 5:16:55 AM PDT by MrEdd
Census sheets found in a safe at a polygamous sect's ranch in west Texas both support and contradict the state's claim of a widespread culture of underage marriage.
Texas authorities used the sheets to convince a judge that there was a "pervasive pattern" among the FLDS of marrying underage girls to older men.
A review of the "Father's Family Information" sheets shows a handful of 16-year-old wives, 13 young monogamous couples and 24 men with multiple wives - including one man with 21 wives and 36 children.
A Texas Ranger testified about the census sheets during an April 17-18 court hearing before 51st District Judge Barbara Walther, who accepted the records as evidence despite objections from attorneys representing FLDS parents and children. The pages were recently released by the court. Sgt. Danny Crawford said the sheets were found April 5 in an office at the ranch, home to members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Texas authorities raided the ranch on April 3 after receiving reports of an abused 16-year-old, calls now being investigated as a possible hoax.
Authorities have said, however, they found evidence of a polygamous lifestyle and underage marriage practices at the ranch that supported removing 464 children.
The bishop's record sheets helped them make that case.
(Excerpt) Read more at sltrib.com ...
ping
What a surprise......
Those “siezed records” are what is commonly known as “evidence”. I love how the article skillfully neglects to mention why the defense attorney objected to using the documents and just mentions that the judge denied the objection.
If the evidence is good enough to rid my state of the people, so be it.
Unless Texas has changed since I lived there , the wrong doers will be punished and the children protected . I further predict that the lapses of due process will at some point be recognized and remedied . It will be a Texas size chore to clean up this mess .
Michael Savage on the Texas Stormtroopers:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8u4vXU0aYeU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBOHpf3SEc8&feature=related
Hope Texas has a lot of money after the lawyers go after them for violating the civil rights of all these women and children.
“If the evidence is good enough to rid my state of the people, so be it.”
Does this sort of comment remind one of Thomas Jefferson or Robert Mugabe?
“As I was going to St. Ives, I met a man with 7 wives”.
Funny, I never really thought about that before. Why is a popular riddle based on an apparently acceptable, ordinary encounter with a polygamist?
The State of Texas is doing the right thing in shutting down this evil child-rape cult, and doing the job that Utah and Arizona should have done a long time ago.
Another article said that the state was refusing to accept official Utah birth and marriage certificates as legal evidence.
Jefferson. Mugabe doesn’t give a crap if someone is raping children.
FIP Ping
Yeah, and China hasn’t violated any Tibetan people’s civil rights.
If they had merely written all the records in "Reformed Egyptian" then the authorities would not have been able to translate it.
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