Thousands of men are milking the benefits system to support several wives
March 10th, 2009Thousands of men are milking the benefits system to support several wives.
Senator: Polygamous sects are ‘form of organized crime’
February 25th, 2009Reid said, other criminal conduct occurs: ”welfare fraud, tax evasion, massive corruption and strong-arm tactics to maintain what they think is the status quo.”
http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/07/24/polygamy.hearing/index.html?eref=rss_latest
Who Foots Bill For Polygamist Communities?
February 25th, 2009What happens is a man marries one wife, she’s his legal wife, then he marries ten other wives in the church, and all the other wives are, by law, single women, so they have all these children with him, and they all get welfare.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/04/10/earlyshow/main4005519.shtml
Abuses in Polygamous Sects
February 25th, 2009Many of the celestial wives register with the state as single mothers and draw welfare for their huge families. In one decade Tom Green and his dependents received more than $647,000 in public assistance.
Polygamous marriages drain taxpayer dollars
February 25th, 2009Canadian Muslim leaders admitted that hundreds of Muslim men in Ontario are now claiming welfare and social benefits for their multiple wives. This is welfare fraud.
The American Government Funds The Polygamist FLDS Sect!
February 25th, 2009American taxpayers have unwittingly helped finance a polygamist sect that is now the focus of a massive child abuse investigation in West Texas, with a business tied to the group receiving a nearly $1 million loan from the federal government and $1.2 million in military contracts.
Fornicating for God
February 25th, 2009As the case of a snatched Mormon girl from Salt Lake City unfolds, polygamists along the Arizona-Utah border face legal scrutiny
By John Dougherty
Published on March 20, 2003
The leader of a renegade branch of the Mormon Church, now 47, had sexual relations with an underage girl who bore him a daughter in July 2000, records obtained by New Times indicate.
http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2003-03-20/news/fornicating-for-god/
Eyes Wide Shut
February 25th, 2009From Governor Janet Napolitano down, Arizona authorities have protected polygamous sexual predators with their indifference
By John Dougherty
Published on August 07, 2003
“This is laughable,” scoffs CindiNannetti, Maricopa County’s sex-crimes bureau chief, as she finishes reading a three-page report prepared by the Colorado City Police Department — an agency controlled by fundamentalist Mormon polygamists along the Arizona-Utah border
http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2003-08-07/news/eyes-wide-shut/
Cover-Up (Arizona Attorney General internal memo)
February 25th, 2009Arizona faces a “Waco-level” threat from Mormon fundamentalists.
By John Dougherty
Published on October 03, 2002
Arizona Attorney General Janet Napolitano’s office is covering up information documenting extensive and ongoing criminal activity including rape, incest, assault, kidnapping, forced marriages of underage girls, weapons violations and welfare fraud that is rampant in the remote polygamous community of Colorado City, state records obtained by New Times reveal.
http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2002-10-03/news/cover-up-arizona-attorney-general-internal-memo/
Health Care in Polygamist Families
February 25th, 2009My own father, in 1974, at age 36, took as a plural wife a girl 16 years of age. It is laughable to see the impotence of state and local government when it comes to dealing with this particularly insidious form of child abuse.
