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2 Utah girls found after kidnapping by 'doomsday prepper' dad who wed daughters to cult leader
Fox News ^ | 12/05/2017 | Katherine Lam

Posted on 12/05/2017 10:58:58 AM PST by DFG

Two Utah girls were found safe Monday three months after they were allegedly kidnapped by their “doomsday prepper” dad -- who reportedly betrothed his daughters to a cult leader.

An Amber Alert was canceled Monday when authorities found Hattie Briella Coltharp, 4, and Dinah Elizabeth Coltharp, 8, outside Lund, FOX13 Salt Lake City reported. Authorities initiated the alert when they received a tip and arrested Samuel Warren Shaffer, 34, who calls himself the prophet of a polygamous sect named “Knights of the Crystal Blade.” The children’s father, John Coltharp, is a member of the sect.

Authorities raided a suspected sect compound and located the girls and their brothers.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Utah
KEYWORDS: coltharp; lund; orthodoxmormon; polygamy; utah
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1 posted on 12/05/2017 10:58:58 AM PST by DFG
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To: DFG
An Amber Alert was canceled Monday when authorities found Hattie Briella Coltharp, 4, and Dinah Elizabeth Coltharp, 8,

Mormon or Muslim cult?

2 posted on 12/05/2017 11:02:21 AM PST by Perseverando (For Progressives, Islamonazis & other Totalitarians: It's all about PEOPLE CONTROL!)
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To: DFG

Comments at the link seem to blame Roy Moore, Trump and possibly the Mormons.


3 posted on 12/05/2017 11:03:49 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (Benedict McCain is the worst traitor ever to wear the uniform of the US military.)
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To: Perseverando
Probably FOM — Friends of Mittens.
 
4 posted on 12/05/2017 11:04:37 AM PST by Governor Dinwiddie
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To: DFG

“...a polygamous sect named “Knights of the Crystal Blade.””

Seriously?


5 posted on 12/05/2017 11:04:55 AM PST by vladimir998 (Apparently I'm still living in your head rent free. At least now it isn't empty.)
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To: Perseverando

https://www.reddit.com/r/exmormon/comments/7hm1e0/deputies_raid_the_knights_of_the_crystal_blade/


6 posted on 12/05/2017 11:05:46 AM PST by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!)
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To: DFG; Elsie

Sounds like Warren Jeffs....


7 posted on 12/05/2017 11:06:48 AM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Perseverando

They are usually “True Mormons” which means they adhere to polygamy and whatever else fancies them. They not very religious but think they are more religious than modern Mormons.


8 posted on 12/05/2017 11:07:08 AM PST by AppyPappy (Don't mistake your dorm political discussions with the desires of the nation)
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To: vladimir998

“Kingdom of the Crystal Skulls” was already taken.


9 posted on 12/05/2017 11:10:18 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: DFG

“The Doomsday Preppers” would be a great name for a rock band.


10 posted on 12/05/2017 11:11:07 AM PST by bigbob (People say believe half of what you see son and none of what you hear - M. Gaye)
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To: Jim Robinson

The boys were found at the compound. The girls were left in the desert to freeze.

https://www.ksl.com/?sid=46210801&nid=148&title=amber-alert-canceled-2-missing-girls-found-in-iron-county


11 posted on 12/05/2017 11:19:34 AM PST by glock rocks (... so much win!)
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To: vladimir998

“...a polygamous sect named “Knights of the Crystal Blade.””

Seriously?

Sounds like something from one of those girlie men japanese video games.


12 posted on 12/05/2017 11:22:30 AM PST by GraceG ("It's better to have all the Right Enemies, than it is to have all the Wrong Friends.")
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To: DFG

Because I am sure it was his “Doomsday Prepping” that caused him to kidnap the girls and not his looney tunes mormonistan religion...


13 posted on 12/05/2017 11:23:56 AM PST by GraceG ("It's better to have all the Right Enemies, than it is to have all the Wrong Friends.")
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To: vladimir998

Sounds like a fan club for Renaissance Fairs or LARPing (live action role-playing).


14 posted on 12/05/2017 11:35:34 AM PST by Crolis ("To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it." -GKC)
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To: DFG

““Knights of the Crystal Blade.” “

Sounds like someone played too many video games...


15 posted on 12/05/2017 11:37:04 AM PST by Rebelbase (The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it.-- H.L. Mencken)
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To: DFG

I pray that those children can be returned to their mother or, together, adopted by a normal family somewhere far away from the evils they have experienced.

It will not surprise me for the MSM to turn this “doomsday prepper” comment into a story line that somehow indicates the father is a “white nationalist Christian”.


16 posted on 12/05/2017 11:40:47 AM PST by NEMDF
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To: DFG

Great. Now when a Christian commits a heinous act I get to tar the entire Church. I guess that’s how it works at the FR.


17 posted on 12/05/2017 11:44:04 AM PST by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL!)
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To: BenLurkin
“Kingdom of the Crystal Skulls” was already taken.

As was Knights in White Satin...

18 posted on 12/05/2017 11:50:28 AM PST by rjsimmon (The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
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To: GraceG

“Because I am sure it was his “Doomsday Prepping” that caused him to kidnap the girls and not his looney tunes mormonistan religion...”

The liberal media would have you believe that fires cause arsonists.


19 posted on 12/05/2017 11:50:32 AM PST by MeganC (Democrat by birth, Republican by default, Conservative by principle.)
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To: Seruzawa
Great. Now when a Christian commits a heinous act I get to tar the entire Church. I guess that’s how it works at the FR.

Good thing it was not a Christian.

20 posted on 12/05/2017 11:51:25 AM PST by rjsimmon (The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
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