Originally posted April 9 2008, "here" at the TrashDispatch.com.
Trash Dispatch:
from Michelle Roberts, Associated Press writer;
ELDORADO, Texas - The scared girl, already a mother at 16, whispered into a cell phone: she wanted out. She’d been forced to spiritually marry a man more than three times her age, becoming his seventh wife.
Her husband sexually assaulted her, and when he was angry, he would beat her while other women held her infant, she told a family violence shelter in a series of secret calls that triggered an investigation of the polygamist sect here.
The girl had looked for opportunities to escape before, but she was warned that outside the double-gates blocking entry to the Yearning For Zion Ranch, in a world completely foreign to her, she would be forced to cut her hair and wear makeup, and to have sex with many men — all damning transgressions in a faith where modesty calls for women to wear long underwear year-round under pioneer-style dresses.
At the end of one call she began to cry; she wanted to take it all back.
But child welfare officials allege in court documents released Tuesday that the compound built by leaders of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints was rife with sexual abuse, with girls spiritually married to much older men as soon as they reached puberty and boys groomed to perpetuate the cycle.
The documents detail the hushed phone calls, but days after raiding the West Texas compound, officials still aren’t sure where the girl is.
TrashDispatch: The Trash Dispatch has been taking a lot heat from citizens (particularly from female citizens), indignant of the fact that the TD has taken a stance of defending the constitution and the Due Process of Law regarding this matter, and has itself been called, a “perpetrator” of female of Child sexual abuse.
Nevertheless, the fact remains that the little girl who “allegedly” contacted Child Protective Services has Still not been found, and may not even exist as Law Enforcment Authorities have known about the YFZ Ranch for years, yet did Nothing, as they had No Evidence to go on Until, these “Scared girl” phone calls. Or did they?
Warren Steed Jeffs (born December 3, 1955, in San Francisco, California) was, and possibly may still be, the leader of a controversial Mormon fundamentalist polygamist sect known as the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS Church) from 2002 to 2007. Jeffs’ position in this organization was reportedly that of absolute ruler.
Jeffs gained international notoriety in May 2006 when he was placed on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted List for unlawful flight to avoid prosecution on Utah state charges related to his alleged arrangement of extralegal marriages between his adult male followers and underage girls. He was arrested in August 2006 in Nevada, and agreed to be taken to Utah for trial. In May and July of 2007 the State of Arizona charged him with eight additional counts—including sexual conduct with minors and incest—in two separate cases. His trial, begun early in September of 2007 in St. George, Utah, lasted less than a month, and on September 25 the verdict was read declaring him guilty of two counts of rape as an accomplice. On November 20, 2007 he was sentenced to imprisonment for 10 years to life and has begun serving his sentence at the Utah State Prison. …
… Before his 2006 arrest, Jeffs had last been seen on January 1, 2005, near Eldorado, Texas, at the dedication ceremony of the foundation of a large and elaborate new FLDS temple on an area of land called the YFZ Ranch. The ranch, which Jeffs’ church reportedly planned to designate as its new home base,[citation needed] came into the public eye when Texas authorities took legal custody of 416 children on April 7, 2008 when a 16-yr old called and reported abuse. She said she was married to a 50-yr old man and had given birth to his child at age 15. - wikipedia.warrenjeffs
So there you have it folks. The Cops Knew about the YFZ Ranch all along. So why didn’t they do anything about the “goings on out there”, then?
In deed, why didn’t they do a Nation-wide investigation into All of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints churchs, at the time of Jeffs’ conviction?
Well, I’m no expert. But I’m guessing it’s because, “there were No Complainants”. At least not until now. And that’s why I question the validity of the complaint (the scared girl phone call), as there were never any complaints before! And why was this little girl not the very First one to meet the officers at the front gate of the compound waving her arms screaming (or at least saying) “Here I am! Help me!”
Yeah ok! So I do know why. As she’s probably retreated into shame with a some sort of grandiose guilt complex for having destroyed her family and friends lives. I mean, that’s what happens to people, you know? It’s like, the “Stockholm Syndrome” where prisoners of war became sympathetic with their captors. And even went so far as to blame their own countries, for their captivity. (Which is what I fear about John McCain but that’s, another story.)
Truth is I’m Glad they busted up this Child Sexual Abuse “Cult”! And my only hope is that the brave little girl who made that phone call, eventually does come forward, otherwise I fear that all resulting cases may have to be dismissed on the grounds of an “Illegal Search and Seizure”. (Or something to that effect.) As in deed that is exactly what the lawyer for the FLDS Church is claiming. That the phone call was in fact, “Manufactured Evidence”.
Yet, and as much as I Hate to agree. The truth is that, as we live in a country of “Life, Liberty, and *Justice for All*”. We Dare Not digress into a land whereby “the End, Justifies the Means”. For to do so, would put us all at risk of the “means”, rather than at risk of the “Punishment”, for our own criminal deeds.
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Oh, and read the First article I wrote on this story;
400 Children Abducted from small Texas Community
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[Links- related Content]
- Watch buses take girls from compound »
- Watch an Eldorado neighbor talk about the raid »
- CNN- 137 children removed from polygamist ranch
- Reuters- Over 400 children taken from Texas polygamist ranch
- Reuters Video- Raid on Texas polygamist ranch
- YahooNews- Nearly 200 taken from Texas compound
- Texas removes 183 women and girls from sect ranch (Reuters)
- Ft. Worth Star Telegram- Nearly 200 women, children removed from polygamous sect’s Texas ranch
- GoogleNews- Additional Children Removed at Polygamist Ranch in Texas - New York Times
- CNN- Texas takes legal custody of 401 sect children
- YahooNews- Sect accused of marrying pubescent girls (AP)
(This is the Michelle Roberts article as quoted above)
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