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Texas officials remove 52 girls from polygamist ranch
Apr 5, 2008, 12:40 GMT
Washington - Texas officials removed 52 girl children from the walled compound of a polygamist sect while police sealed off all roads to the ranch on suspicion that a teenage girl was raped there, media reports said late Friday.
The evacuation and lock-down came as police executed a search and arrest warrant for a 50-year-old man charged with marrying and fathering a child with a 16-year-old girl, the San Angelo, Texas, Standard Times reported online.
Two white busses bearing the name of a local Baptist church were shown carrying the girls, aged six months to 17 years old, away from the West Texas compound on CNN.
The colony near Eldorado, in west Texas, was founded by Warren Jeffs, leader of a breakaway Mormon sect that openly practices polygamy.
Jeffs was sentenced last year to ten years to life in prison for coercing a 14-year-old girl to marry her 19-year-old cousin, which made him an accomplice to rape.
Officials were still interviewing people at the compound, Marleigh Meisner, a spokeswoman for Child Protective Services (CPS), told CNN.
'We are dealing with many victims,' Meisner was quoted as saying by the Standard Times. 'There's evidence they have been abused or are at imminent risk or harm. It is not safe for them to remain on the compound.'
Eighteen of the girls were placed in CPS custody, she said, while the remaining 34 girls were being interviewed.
'The actions we've taken today have nothing to do with religion or lifestyle,' Darrell Azar, another spokesman for CPS, was quoted as saying by the Houston Chronicle. 'The pure interest is in protecting children from abuse and neglect. That's what we have done.'
The sect came to the 850-hectare Texas ranch in 2003, where they have also built a temple. The compound was sealed off late Thursday by police as they executed the warrant, the San Angelo newspaper reported.
In Jeffs' trial, prosecutors charged he had used his religious authority as leader of the 10,000- member Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, which openly practices polygamy, to force the 14-year-old girl to marry her cousin.
During the trial, the girl testified that she was told by Jeffs that her salvation would be endangered should she refuse to marry her cousin.
Jeffs, who was on the FBI's most-wanted list, has allegedly arranged marriages for girls as young as 13 and faces charges in Arizona of being an accomplice to incest and accomplice to sex with minors.
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also known as the bush ranch
and run by ess pee whore
...why would I be angry?
What is it about texas that draws the kooks? There was the Branch Dividians, this group and of course Noharness. What else is down there? Oh, yes, Southern Baptist.
As long as there are people out there who will believe anything, there will be people like Jeffs to take advantage of their stupidity!
Was it polygamy when John F kennedy had a wife and slept with an actress? Off course not, he did not claim taxes for her!
Was it polygamy when CLINTON did what he did with Monika Lewisnki in white house? OFF COURSE NOT. HE DID WHAT EVEN LOWER ANIMALS DO NOT DO!!
Except for Carter, which president in the last century was not involved with another woman during his marriage?
Was it polygamy when only yesterday a married man, NY governor slep with prostitutes? OFF COURSE NOT!
Is it polygamy when a married senator looked for sex with a man on the airport? NOT REALLY
Go to any school, college how many boys are involved with how many girls, one with one is a ririty if you ever get to see.
So what is POLIGAMY? The one not approved by government!!!
George Bush senior and Ronald Reagan never had affairs (of state anyways) that were ever documented. Nixon....who knows?
'So what is POLIGAMY?[sic] The one not approved by government!!!'
The one where shiite islamist idiots crawl off the boat and spam forums with this kind of stupidity in order to legitimize their barbaric customs.
Prostituition: Where a woman gets cash money and government does not get a share of it...Governor Ventura.
Poligamy: Where the 'Other woman' has rights to claim, and government does not approve.
'The Websters dictionary definition:Apr 6th, 2008 - 18:51:00
'So what is POLIGAMY?[sic] The one not approved by government!!!'
The one where shiite islamist idiots crawl off the boat and spam forums with this kind of stupidity in order to legitimize their barbaric customs. '
Then you have yankee rightwing neocon Southern Baptist fundamentalists who spam forums like this with barbaric nonsensical rantings.
I find it interesting that the vehicles that carried off the young children were all marked with Baptist Chuch signage. Is this something of a religious war? Southern Baptists aren't tolerant of anything except themselves. Why weren't the kids taken away in Government vehicles and put under the care of state social services? Are we looking at a Chines style of 're-education,' more realistically called reprogramming or indoctrination?
'Then you have yankee rightwing neocon Southern Baptist fundamentalists who spam forums like this with barbaric nonsensical rantings.'
Yankees are not southern you stupid savage.
Only to you bloody yanks is there a distinction between southern neanderthals and northern knuckle draggers. To the rest of the world, you are all yankees. So take your umbrage and blow it out your arse, cretin.
'Only to you bloody yanks is there a distinction between southern neanderthals and northern knuckle draggers. '
Hey nutball, you are not fooling anyone with your 'bloody' and your 'yanks.'
We have been through this, the British and commonwealth countries spell certain words differently. You just spell things badly.
'To the rest of the world, you are all yankees.'
You don't speak for the rest of the world you basement dwelling wanker.
'So take your umbrage and blow it out your arse'
Your method of composing the effluence you post here no doubt.
Oh my, aren't we the erudite one. I'd ask you to grow up, but the chances of you succeeding are less than a dog giving up licking its balls.
As to: 'We have been through this, the British and commonwealth countries spell certain words differently.'
What's this 'we' business, yank. Do you have multiple personalities? Is there more than one uneducated, inbred, brain dead hillbilly living in that skull of yours? As for the different spelling how would you know? I assume from your post that you believe that I am a fellow ignorant savage. How wrong you are, on all counts. You wouldn't happen to be SP4, would you? You post about as intelligently as he does.
MEN CAN MARRY MEN! FREEDOM
WOMEN CAN MARRY WOMEN! FREEDOM
MEN CANNOT MARRY MORE THAN ONE WOMAN! FREEDOM
If men want to have a ranch full of women, and the women are stupid enough to be there, let them, but leave the children out of it. They should all be sterilized, so all those innocent girls aren't subjected to this!
And why are these women stupid enough to be a part of this? Because they were raised from childhood being told it's right, and not being allowed to know there's an outside world that tells women you can say no and make your own choices! These people are sick and wrong, and the men are driven by hatred and insecurity. They all need help in more ways than one.
'Oh my, aren't we the erudite one.'
'We'? I think you are projecting your own schizophrenia.
'I'd ask you to grow up, but the chances of you succeeding are less than a dog giving up licking its balls.'
Since you usually just regurgitate everything I write back at me in a fit of infantile 'I'm rubber, you're glue' playground speak, why not simply do what you usually do and write the same exact thing I said as a response?
'What's this 'we' business, yank. '
LOL, you have even gotten mixed up and answered questions posed to different persona's with different sock puppets. You are pathetic.. Get a life.
'As for the different spelling how would you know? '
I am not a moron, like you.
'I assume from your post that you believe that I am a fellow ignorant savage.'
You have demonstrated conclusively that you are an ignorant savage. Unfortunately, you have also demonstrated that you are a poser as well as a nut.
' You post about as intelligently as he does.'
Good of you to to proclaim your own intelligence again; you are not fooling anyone. You trying to overcompensate for a well earned inferiority complex and you are failing miserably.
Your civility bothers any senseless person.
FREEDOM!
TO BE SO CIVIL?
You took almost 24 hours to reply to that other person's post. What sort of infantile troll are you? Did you need the time to get your mommy to explain the word erudite to you? Get a life, child. No one is impressed with your prepubescent ramblings.
the 'Get a life' poster has anything intelligent to say that is on-topic. Or is he merely a malcontent. Whatever it is, it is merely another boring, unamusing little prat.
All that dude is, is a seriously disturbed ghetto rat. He sits on a site as an obtuse little scumbag. When everyone else has gone, he waits a while to make sure he's alone and then drops another nonsensical piece of drivel. He is so insecure in his life that he feels he must get in the last word. As if that would justify his meaningless existence. He is at the mental age when he should be chasing girls and squeezing pimples. However, it is obvious that he is a total failure at those endeavours, so he tries his best to be a web troll. What a loser.
'You took almost 24 hours to reply to that other person's post.'
'That other person's post'... Yeah right. Good lord you are a pathetic psyco...
'What sort of infantile troll are you?'
Because, unlike you I have a job and a life and other things to do I an somehow an 'infantile troll'? Nice case pf psychological projection.
'Did you need the time to get your mommy to explain the word erudite to you?'
Nope, I was out earning a living in order to pay taxes so that you could be a basement dwelling, government cheese eating parasite.
'Get a life, child. '
Another creative retort I see; I tell you to get a life, you rub both IQ points togeather and tell me to get a life. I tell you that you are infantile... You come up with the most devastating response your empty head can devise and call me infantile. You are soooo original! No wonder you have time to count the seconds until my next post you unbelievable loser.
'No one is impressed with your prepubescent ramblings.'
Well Ill bet everyone is bowled over by you regurgitating the many ways you have been called an idiot and lamely tossing them back you brilliant word smith. :-D
'i wonder if...Apr 9th, 2008 - 02:18:56
the 'Get a life' poster has anything intelligent to say that is on-topic.'
I wonder if any more of your sockpuppets have anything to say? I guess I neednt wonder:
'To the previous 2 posters from Ken.
All that dude is, is a seriously disturbed ghetto rat'
Ghetto? LOL
'When everyone else has gone, he waits a while to make sure he's alone and then drops another nonsensical piece of drivel.'
Again, that whole 'having a job' thing... You should look in to it.
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SP4: I wonderApr 5th, 2008 - 15:01:02
...who he will marry in Prison?
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