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Forced to Marry at 14: Lisa Ling's Special Report on Polygamy Continues
http://www2.oprah.com/tows/pastshows/200805/tows_past_20080514.jhtml?promocode=HP11
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A 14-year-old girl is forced to marry her cousin, but escapes. Where is she now? Lisa Ling reports from inside a polygamous sect's compound.


Second sect baby born in state custody
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/APStories/stories/D90KEVM80.html

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An FLDS woman whose age is disputed by Texas officials gave birth in Austin around noon today to a son - and hours later her attorney won a ruling preventing authorities from moving her immediately to San Antonio.

Austin State District Judge Orlinda Naranjo granted a temporary restraining order to prevent the Texas Department of Family and Protective services from moving Louisa Jessop and her newborn to San Antonio this evening, according to Rod Parker, an FLDS spokesman and Salt Lake City attorney.

Louisa Bradshaw Jessop maintains she is 22, but the department has her classified as 17. She has two other children, ages 3 and 2, and is in state custody with them after an April 3 raid on her home, the YFZ Ranch in Eldorado.


Bishop's Records Offer Rare Look Inside Polygamist Families
http://www.newswest9.com/Global/story.asp?S=8293737&nav=menu505_2

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The Associated Press reports the bishop's records offer a peek into an intricate culture in which men related to the sect's prophet -- Warren Jeffs -- enjoyed favored-husband status.

An AP analysis shows that by the time a girl reached 16, she was more likely to be married than to live as a child in her father's household.

The bishop's records, released by court officials last week, include 37 families totaling 507 individuals.


FLDS mother declared an adult
http://deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,700225532,00.html

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Texas authorities no longer believe that a woman who gave birth to a child in state protective custody is a minor herself.

Lawyers for the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services acknowledged in a hearing in San Angelo on Tuesday that the young woman is legally an adult.

"We received information — credible information — and we now believe this woman who was believed to be a minor in question, is in fact, an adult," said Texas Child Protective Services spokeswoman Marleigh Meisner.

However, she will still remain in custody alongside her baby boy, who was born in San Marcos on April 29.


Texas authorities investigate more polygamy charges
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hdtkEy-_-VDCktXIbtlDTH-UD2gQD90KTQB80

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But this isn't the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints' ranch, which authorities raided last month in Eldorado after receiving reports that underage girls were being forced to marry much older men.

This is the House of Yahweh: a different, even darker sect that the state has been investigating for years. Authorities in February charged the group's 73-year-old leader with performing polygamous weddings and forcing about 40 children — some as young as 11 — to work jobs at his 44-acre compound.