Posts Tagged ‘FLDS’

Reid proposes federal anti-polygamy task force

Wednesday, February 25th, 2009

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


Polygamist sect on Idaho-B.C. border drawing new scrutiny

Wednesday, February 25th, 2009

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/


North Idaho polygamist sect drawing new scrutiny

Wednesday, February 25th, 2009

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.

http://www.komonews.com/news/local/39696072.html

Big Love Community College

Wednesday, February 25th, 2009

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

Eviction Letter

 

 http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/02/20/mohave

Polygamy in the American Southwest – Child Brides, Polygamous Communities

Wednesday, February 25th, 2009

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.

http://gosw.about.com/od/southwesthistory/a/polygamy.htm

Polygamy showdown: balancing child welfare, religious freedom

Wednesday, February 25th, 2009

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

What’s Wrong with Polygamy?

Wednesday, February 25th, 2009

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

Janet’s Missed Opportunity

Wednesday, February 25th, 2009

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/

Texas polygamist ranch report details child abuse

Wednesday, February 25th, 2009

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

Texas: Abuse, neglect at polygamist ranch

Wednesday, February 25th, 2009

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.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28366492/