Posted on 07/29/2008 6:44:21 AM PDT by ricks_place
Five indicted members of a West Texas polygamist sect turned themselves in to authorities Monday to face charges related to allegations of child sexual abuse.
The five men were indicted last week with Warren Jeffs, the already-jailed leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. The charges stem from a state investigation into allegations that the sect forced underage girls into marriage and motherhood with much older men.
State authorities raided the FLDS's Yearning For Zion Ranch in Eldorado on April 3, eventually sweeping more than 400 children into foster care until the state Supreme Court said officials had overreached and sent the children home.
Raymond Merrill Jessop, 36, Allan Eugene Keate, 56, Michael George Emack, 57, and Merrill Leroy Jessop, 33, were charged with one count each of sexual assault of a child, a felony punishable by a sentence ranging from five to 99 years or life in prison. Their bond was set at $100,000 each.
Merrill Leroy Jessop also was charged with bigamy, a felony with the same potential penalties as the sexual assault charge.
Lloyd Hammon Barlow, 38, the ranch's onsite physician, was charged with three counts of failure to report child abuse, a misdemeanor punishable by up to six months in prison. His bond was set at $5,000.
Attorney General Greg Abbott on Monday declined to provide details of what the men were accused of doing.
Efforts to find the men's attorneys were not immediately successful. A message left for FLDS attorney Rod Parker was not immediately returned.
Abbott said the state would try to have Jeffs extradited to Texas to face a charge of sexual assault of a child.
Last week's charges were the first since the April raid.
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That wasn't what you said at all. I am beginning to think that you have some kind of mental disorder. I probably shouldn't point out errors anymore.
If that's the case, its time you looked in the mirror. Over and over again you've brought up the same argument. The subject: Why don't those who agreed with Judge Walthers decision to remove the children from the FLDS environment now insist on the courts taking the same action since some of the FLDS men have been indicted?
You have repeated the same question in a number of your posts. If no one answered your question, too bad. Nevertheless, you persist in repeating yourself ad nauseam.
Do you exempt yourself from your definition of insanity?
Now knowing the mindset of the Texas SC, Judge Walthers shows common sense by patiently awaiting further action against the FLDS. That's not to say she made a wrong decision.
I hope that answers your repetitious (insane?) question.
I'm sorry to say that I think your intention is mainly to agitate, while you choose to completely ignore every bit of evidence that shows the FLDS as a criminal cult.
Please don't post to me again. You've had my last response.
Re-read post #83 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2053078/posts?page=83#83
From reading your comments to others, you seem to have problems with reading comprehension. As I said, you call others what you are and accuse them of doing what you do.
The term you are looking for is 'projection'. It is your problem not mine : )
If you supported the CPS's removal of women and children when they had no evidence, it is very telling that you don't support it now that they have evidence.
You have repeated the same question in a number of your posts. If no one answered your question, too bad. Nevertheless, you persist in repeating yourself ad nauseam.
Do you exempt yourself from your definition of insanity?
No, I am not expecting different results. It is the second part of the statement that determines the mental condition. You apparently aren't able to comprehend the second part of the statement, but that is OK. I recognize that you have a mental disorder and I am doing my best to help you.
I hope that answers your repetitious (insane?) question.
Were you expecting a different answer or the same answer?
I'm sorry to say that I think your intention is mainly to agitate, while you choose to completely ignore every bit of evidence that shows the FLDS as a criminal cult.
What does that have to do with the CPS's criminal behavior? I recognize that most criminals are criminals. I tend to get upset when police break the law, I expect it from the criminals. Why is that point so hard to understand?
Please don't post to me again. You've had my last response.
Fine with me. I don't want you posting to me either. I prefer that you shut up and go away. It makes my job much easier : )
Yes, I’ve used the term on these threads. I was trying to use simpler words for you.
Did you re-read post #83, again?
You should write what you mean. If you didn't mean what you wrote that is OK we all make mistakes. Some of us are big enough to admit it though.
Good, I’ll be expecting your admission that you misinterpreted what I said in post #83.
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