Here is what I wrote on another thread:
"I'm getting tired of the "child rape" thing myself.
"These people are painting images of elementary kids being forced into sex. The reality is that 5 teenagers had sex and got pregnant. These situations probably happened with adult men.
"This is statuary rape, not the violent rape the folks here want to see.
"At my daughter's school (population: about 1,000) there are pregnant teens all over the place. She personally knows three teenage girls having relationships with adult men in their 20's.
"The school isn't doing anything. It looks like the parents are OK with these relationships. Should somebody start screaming "CHILD RAPE!" and take every kid in the community from their families?
"The hyperbole is steaming."
I will add to that comment, my mother (one of 5 girls in her family) was a late bloomer. She married at 19. The youngest was married at 18. The rest were married right after their 16th birthday.
It's really difficult for me to see "child rape" when all of the girls in question were of similar ages to so many in my family.
And, NO. I'm not talking about Jeffs. He was way out of line and should stay in jail for the rest of his natural life for multiple counts of statutory rape. But CPS has provided NO evidence that any of the other girls were "married" that young.
Jeffs is in prison for being an accomplice to rape. That’s what he did, week in and week out, that is the basic “code” hard-wired into the FLDS.
In or out of prison, the leader of the FLDS arranges ritual child rape.
Anybody who wants to send these poor brainwashed from the crade children back to the FLDS is supporting child rape.
Period.
Also... just because Jeffs was a predator does not assume that all FLDS men are predators. The courts need to give due diligence to finding proper evidence to condemn other FLDS men.
If they all are predators then bring on the evidence of this crime. I have not seen them submit any evidence and the constant (ad nauseum) posting of Jeffs molesting the child bride does not constitute evidence against THESE families.