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Posted on 08/21/2008 6:29:23 PM PDT by Alice in Wonderland
A Schleicher County grand jury today handed down three new felony indictments in the state's polygamist sect investigation, a court clerk said.
Schleicher County District Clerk Peggy Williams said the indictments involve three individuals. It's unclear whether those individuals are new defendants or suspects already charged in the probe.
The identities of those individuals were not immediately available. Neither were the actual charges listed in the indictments.
The grand jury last month indicted six members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
Court hearings for those individuals is scheduled for Sept. 8, authorities said.
The grand jury plans to reconvene on Sept. 23, Williams said.
Sect spokesman Willie Jessop was one of six witnesses subpoenaed today. When asked about his testimony, Jessop told reporters: "We certainly believe there is a God. We believe he will judge all. Those who judge will be judged themselves."
In related action today, a case involving Lloyd Barlow, a physician at the sect's YFZ compound near Eldorado, was transferred to the Schleicher County court system. He is facing three charges of failing to report child abuse, a misdemeanor. He was among the six members of FLDS indicted last month.
Since the court hasn’t conducted the hearings on 300 some odd children yet, you are making the same type of comment that you accuse JROCHELLE of.
Assuming a fact that is not in evidence yet.
How hypocritical of you.
Everyone knows that seat belts come from the devil...
LOL this from the person who thinks that the Constitution only protected the establishment of Religion not the practice of religion.
Do yourself a favor and read the Constitution and laws before you post : )
Show me where in any law where one can be prosecuted for one’s beliefs.
“I think that I could make a very good case that you are abusing your children if you are teaching them your beliefs : ) “
OH, you mean like your assertion yesterday that sex with minors could be considered legal because the fourth amendment to the Constitution trumps all State laws?
If the ‘mind police’ were called on you and Jrochelle, I bet they’d take you first.
I knew you would be disappointed that someone would expect you to do what claimed you could, when you can't.
That's where bragging will get you.
Otherwise a Muslim could say killing a Jew was just his “free exercise of religion”.
“The hour [the Day of Judgment] will not come until the Muslims fight the Jews and kill them.A Jew will [then] hide behind a rock or a tree, and the rock or tree will call upon the Muslim: ‘O Muslim, O slave of Allah! there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him!’
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What disgusts me is the easy manipulation of deeply faithful people who are taught from birth, one way or another, unquestioning obedience by unscrupulous leaders.
What disgusts me is the negative social and genetic effects.
What disgusts me is occasional men, having absolute control over their children, fall into pedophilic behavior as they train girls "when they are still young" to become a pleasing wife to the husband.
What disgusts me is while claiming polygamy is simply a mandate by God and that men are being "holy" as they fulfill this directive to qualify for celestial glory, the polygamist leaders lustfully pursue vibrant, playful little girls who then devolve into lifeless, emotionless women.
That there's hope for her now. Sadly, not yet for the others. But once the verdicts start coming in, there's hope for the others as well.
“who thinks that the Constitution only protected the establishment of Religion not the practice of religion.”
The ‘only’ problem with your comment, is that other posters here read the rest of the comments that followed, where we went into detail on the fourth amendment, and I explained why I only mentioned the first part.
But keep ‘grasping’ those straws, if It helps you stay afloat.
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They discard all other kinds of laws that would protect children, like those against statutory rape. Why should anyone expect them to stop at seat belt laws?
I notice that precedence was later overturned.
Try again. People’s BELIEFS, remember.
He wasn’t charged and prosecuted just for what he thought.
So go ahead here.
Make your case.
OK, show us where that's the case.
“They discard all other kinds of laws that would protect children, like those against statutory rape. Why should anyone expect them to stop at seat belt laws?”
OR child labor laws.
I’d be a lot more sympathetic if the evil woman hadn’t already given her daughter to pedophile to be raped. I guess that wasn’t a separation?
Nice show for the camera.
I wonder if the act like that when their exalted leaders reassign families?
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