Age of consent in TX is 17. Unless the group is systematically breaking that law, leave them alone.
“...for a 16-year-old member who reported being physically abused.”
They’re “systematically breaking the law” against polygamy. Do your research, and have a heart for these girl slaves who must obey their masters and “marry” dirty old men.
Ewww. Sick that someone would defend abusers of women and girls.
“Age of consent in TX is 17. Unless the group is systematically breaking that law, leave them alone.”
So you approve of polygamy? And breaking th law?
There is no age threshold at which rape becomes legal. Consent is not a meaningful term in these communities, where girls grow up with no contact at all with the outside world, and no exposure to the idea that maybe God doesn’t want you to follow your the orders of your “prophet” when he orders you to submit to being raped by the middle aged man he picked out for you. The way it works is the girls are taught that the outside world is a horrible, sinful place, and any acceptance of its ways, or any failure to obey the orders of your prophet or your assigned husband will consign you to hell. Then you get raped and impregnated by the time you’re 13 or 14, and by the time things are bad enough that you start questioning whether you really believe all this crap, you have a baby or two, no clue of how you might support yourself much less your children in the scary sinful outside world. You think about making a run for it, but realize you’d have to abandon your children — you physically have no chance of escaping with them (even escaping by yourself is an iffy proposition). So you stay. What’s that you were saying about consent?
From what I understand, they routinely force girls younger than 17 years old to marry to middle aged men, so they are indeed consistently breaking the law.
” Unless the group is systematically breaking that law, leave them alone”
They are doing just that. Book ‘em, Dano.