… Such sinners, according to FLDS doctrine, are supposed to willingly submit to blood-atonement carried out by their “priestly head” — their father, husband or brother. “They slit your throat from ear-to-ear and disembowel you,” Mackert said, “and that’s the only way you’re redeemed.”
If you refused to marry the chosen husband, Doe testified, you would “lose your chance at salvation.” How could she refuse to obey the husband who was “my ticket into heaven”?
In the largest release of evidence to date, hundreds of pages of dictations by Jeffs to his wife Naomie were unsealed last week, painting a picture in Jeffs’ own words of a paranoid leader whose meticulous control over his flock knew no bounds, continuing even after his arrest and imprisonment for arranging a marriage between a 14-year-old girl and her 19-year-old cousin.
Very little attention is paid to the abuse and neglect of the boys. Some as young as 13, frequently expelled from the compound are forced to fend for themselves without education, friends, or adult guidance.
Anti-polygamy activists, who gathered here Saturday for an unprecedented meeting, charge the state has not done enough to stamp out “Utah’s dirty little secret.” They say the inaction is allowing child abuse, welfare fraud and sexual assault to continue unchecked in polygamous communities.
The Attorney General, Mark Shurtleff, of Utah is so busy working with polygamist groups, he apparently does not have time to read the law books, or perhaps he just does not care about the rule of law. He, especially, cannot ignore the anti-polygamy laws, because it is a condition for Utah’s statehood in plain language in Utah’s constitution.
http://www.cambridgeblog.org/2008/05/the-story-behind-the-story-of-polygamy-in-the-west/
The task force proposal is included as part of The Victims of Polygamy Assistance Act of 2008, which was introduced Wednesday by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., a Mormon and outspoken critic of polygamous groups.
http://pewforum.org/news/display.php?NewsID=16138
The police force in Polygamyland helps fugitive Prophet Warren Jeffs and his cult break the law
By John Dougherty
Published on February 23, 2006
The Colorado City Marshal’s Office is in a state of insurrection. Mark Poutenis
 Utah AG Mark Shurtleff (left) and Arizona AG Terry Goddard have become Prophet Warren Jeffs’ puppets.
And nobody in authority — from Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano on down — seems to give a damn.
Polygamy is illegal in Utah and forbidden by the Arizona constitution. However, law enforcement agencies in both states have decided to focus on crimes within polygamous communities that involve child abuse, domestic violence and fraud.
Shouldn’t criminal laws be reserved for conduct that creates serious harm to individuals or society? Does polygamy fit within that framework?
http://religiouschildabuse.blogspot.com/2009/02/polygamy-debate-should-be-in-parliament.html
