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
Two FLDS schools, with some students from Boundary County, get almost $1 million a year from the Canadian government.
http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2009/feb/15/secret-under-scrutiny/
The FLDS community of Bountiful, B.C., is the “polygamy capital of Canada,” that country’s “dirty secret,” where underage marriages and child abuse have gone untouched, according to author and Vancouver Sun columnist Daphne Bramham, who has written extensively about the sect.
A community college in rural Arizona is asking local law enforcement and social service groups to leave their office space on campus, following claims by the local polygamous community that their presence made the institution unwelcoming.
Eviction Letter
Pennie Petersen, at age 14, found out she was to be married to a 48-year-old man who she said had previously molested her. She ran from the sect.
Polygamy and under-age marriage are only part of a larger public concern about the psychological and physical harm children may suffer from being raised in what appears to be an insular, authoritarian environment.
http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/commentary.aspx?id=19969
I believe the way people focus on the polygamy part of the story rather than child abuse and domestic abuse paints a misleading picture.
http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2008/04/whats_wrong_with_polygamy.cfm
Governor Napolitano went to Utah, and all we got was some lousy ring kissing.
John Dougherty
Published on October 07, 2004
I’ve got a dreadful message for thousands of young men and women trapped in the horrors of fundamentalist Mormon polygamy in a handful of remote and desolate towns north of the Grand Canyon along the Arizona-Utah border.
http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/2004-10-07/news/janet-s-missed-opportunity/
Child neglect and abuse were widespread at a Texas polygamist ranch with at least a dozen girls forced into underage marriages, according to a report released by state authorities.
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE4BM53N20081223
Nearly two-thirds of the families living at a polygamist group’s ranch — targeted in a high-profile raid last spring — had children who were abused or neglected, Texas child welfare authorities conclude in a new report.
