“You certainly can’t prosecute Fundamentalist LDS people who do this and let all the other ones go. “
Furthermore, do you recall the pro-life folks who tried to hold Planned Parenthood accountable for aborting teenage girls who had been impregnated by older men? Good grief - the weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth - PRIVACY PRIVACY PRIVACY. That investigation was shut down dead in its tracks. There is a double standard so high and wide, it just stinks. At least the FLDS people weren’t having abortions!!!
Regarding number 8 and 11: You haven’t learned much in the last few weeks, despite all the posts on the FLDS topics.
1. In Texas, it is legal to marry at 16 with parental consent, not 15. However, parents may not give consent for fornication, sexual assault by someone more than 3 years older than their child, or any other sort of sex outside of marriage.
2. The children were removed from the compound based on a warrant issued by a judge due to the statements given voluntarily to CPS workers and Texas Rangers.
3. Part of the reason that we changed our laws of consent in Texas in 2005 was to clarify prosecution and enforce our parental notification (now consent with a notarized affadavit) laws. There was, yes, an uproar among the parties that do not want any limits on teen sex, but we prevailed.