Posted on 04/09/2008 4:41:39 PM PDT by JRochelle
SAN ANGELO, Tex. - Adult FLDS men were having sex with underage brides inside the massive limestone temple at the polygamous sect's Texas ranch, a confidential informant told authorities.
According to a request for a search warrant unsealed today by a Texas judge, Schliecher County Sheriff David Doran has been working with a confidential informant who has shared information about the ranch over several years. On Saturday, as a sweeping raid was underway at the YFZ Ranch, the informant spoke to Doran and made the allegation about the temple, the court filing said.
The affidavit was from Texas Ranger Leslie Brooks Long, who reported being at the ranch and observing a bed inside the temple with disturbed linens and a long hair, apparently from a female.
The document was filed in support of the state's request for a second warrant to search the ranch, owned by the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. That warrant was signed Sunday; an earlier warrant had been signed on Thursday, the day the raid began.
Since then, authorities have removed 419 children, accompanied by 139 women.
Tom Green County District Judge Barbara Walther unsealed the documents during a hearing today.
She also ruled three members of the sect have the legal right to challenge the massive search, and said she will appoint a special master to review documents and computer hard drives seized from the sect's ranch. The special master will determine what material is privileged and protected as strictly religious.
Gerald Goldstein, who is representing sect members, estimated that hundreds of boxes of documents have been taken from the YFZ Ranch.
"We ought to be able to cull out those that are sacred," he told the judge. "If it relates to the children, they get it. If it doesn't, they don't."
Police can seize any documents related to family lineage, he acknowledged.
Allison Palmer, assistant district attorney for the 51st District, argued that sect members did not have legal standing, or should not be allowed to challenge the search. No arrests have been made, she pointed out.
But the judge disagreed, granting legal standing to three men:
- Lyle Jeffs, representing himself and the FLDS church. He is the bishop of the FLDS church's Short Creek stake on the border of Utah and Arizona and the father of two children taken from the ranch.
- Ranch overseer Merrill Jessop, who is also is a presiding elder in the sect.
- Isaac Jeffs, a brother of the sect's leader.
Goldstein said the men are no longer seeking to quash two state search warrants used so far by officials, conceding the point is moot because a federal search warrant has been issued.
The ‘discoveries’ in the unmarked graves at this hell hole in TX could tell a lot about the ‘first pregnancies’. Cattle farmers around this region will allow young heffers to be imprgnated even though the likelihood of obtaining a healthy calf is very low ... gets the heffers ready to pop out calves every other year.
“If people are outraged, it’s because of the evil they see, not because of the sensationalism of the media.”
And yet, they would know NOTHING about this case, without the media.
So, what they see, is what they are being ‘fed’, by the media.
Now, if the media had come out and said that this is only about ONE MALE (who is a convicted sex offender) abusing the RLDS religion for his own purposes, and that the rest of the members of the compound committed no crimes...
There wouldn’t be much of a story, would there?
P.S.
Actually, I think there is much more to this case than the Media has published, so far.
What I am trying to say is that the media will ‘sensationalize’ a story, if it hurts those they want to hurt, and makes them more money.
They will also shut down a story that hurts those whom they want to protect, even if it costs them to do so.
The ONE THING they WILL NOT do is present, unbiased, well-researched and verified news.
“The ‘discoveries’ in the unmarked graves at this hell hole in TX could tell a lot about the ‘first pregnancies’.”
How long ago were these graves discovered?
How much was done about it?
These woman and children are taught that all outsiders are evil, and sometimes that outsiders will kill them. Girls are often taught that if they do anything wrong they will be shunned and left to fend for themselves in the outside world, and that they will be forced to become prostitutes.
Women are told that they and their children are the property of the group and they have no rights. They are taught this from birth. They see their mothers being mistreated and abused. They are mistreated and abused. They don’t make any desicisons,they don’t have any free will left-these woman and children have been brainwashed by perverted old men who wanted to have a lot of sex and babies with underage and young girls.
For a woman like Carolyn Jessop to leave that cult is about the most courageous act a person can make. The fact that she got her children out is amazing.
A child presented to the emergency room and had broken ribs. Radiology would have routinely asked if she were pregnant before that X-ray was taken.
A pregnant fifteen year old probably elicited some questions. Any licensed heath care professional, and they are listed by statute in Texas law, is bound if they think the injury is inconsistent with the story given — to report it. They are guaranteed anonymity, again by statute.
What she told someone in radiology would be 100% protected. With the same protection as an attorney client relationship. Who signed the permit for her care and what relationship they claimed would also be suspect.
The Texas authorities don't run out and have a press conference every ten minutes. No one knows what they have or what they know.
a bed inside the temple with disturbed linens and a long hair, apparently from a female.
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DNA to track down at least one of the victims among the young girls.....
Well they are - some 400 of them kicked out in the last 4 years. They are known as the Lost Boys and some have sued.
Depends on how free she was to make independent decisions.
***Go to any highschool in America and you will find dozens of pregnant teens.***
I know of a public school near here whose entire senior girl’s graduating class had a case of the big belly!
***He just KEEPS getting better looking; doesn’t he!!***
You noticed it too!
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***Cattle farmers around this region will allow young heffers to be imprgnated even though the likelihood of obtaining a healthy calf is very low ... gets the heffers ready to pop out calves every other year.***
We always liked to use an ANGUS bull for the first time calf as they are smaller at birth.
Thank you for your expertise. I think I’m getting the picture.
bttt
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