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| Texas Sect thought Morman Church founded by Bring Em Young |
| 2008-04-09 |
| Forced marriage and sexual abuse were "pervasive" inside the Texas compound of a polygamist sect raided last week by investigators, according to child welfare officials seeking custody of more than 400 children removed from the religious group's sprawling YFZ Ranch. In a harrowing District Court affidavit, a Child Protective Services investigator charged that the children were placed in risk of "emotional, physical and/or sexual abuse" at the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints facility, where female children were groomed to "accept spiritual marriages to adult male members of the YFZ Ranch resulting in them being sexually abused." Similarly, investigator Lynn McFadden noted, young men on the YFZ Ranch were "spiritually married to minor female children," with whom they engaged in sexual relationships, becoming, in the process, sexual "perpetrators." The McFadden affidavit, which was filed today in court, was provided to TSG by the San Angelo Standard-Times. A copy of the document can be found below. The government raid on the compound was triggered after a 16-year-old mother called a family violence center and reported that she had been abused by her 50-year-old husband and was seeking help in departing the property, according to the affidavit. The girl, who has yet to be located, identified her abuser as Dale Barlow, a 50-year-old registered sex offender who pleaded no contest last year to conspiring to have sex with a minor. |
| Posted by:GolfBravoUSMC |
| #5 GolfBravoUSMC - glad to see your response, and agree. Also, the Catholic priest pedophile scandal is an outrage. |
| Posted by: Frank G 2008-04-09 19:32 |
| #4 Agreed - I'm Catholic, not Mormon, so I have no gain/loss, but that headline is awfully misleading. The Jeffs' sect is a split off because the real LDS church doesn't allow the awful practices that are the basis of the charges here. Don't taint the real LDS church for the acts of people they are not associated with |
| Posted by: Frank G 2008-04-09 19:05 |
| #3 I meant it to be slanderous to a pedophile sect, not the Mormon Church. These people called themselves Latter-day Saints but they have nothing to do with the Church, they are lower than whale shit. Whether it's Fundamentalist David Koresh or Catholic Priests, pedophilia is a scourge that cannot be left free of scorn. They all defile the message of Christ. |
| Posted by: GolfBravoUSMC 2008-04-09 18:59 |
| #2 These people have as close a relationship to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints as voodoo practitioners in Haiti have to the Vatican. That is to say, absolutely none. GBUSMC, your headline is misleading and slanderous. Is that deliberate? |
| Posted by: Pancho Elmeck8414 2008-04-09 18:23 |
| #1 HMMMMM, HMMMMM, "JEFF HEFFS" is a name I recall years ago from my younger University days. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2008-04-09 17:51 |