Not All Kids Going Home

Just one article today (finally!). A really good summary of the situation in general. Some women and their kids are not going back to the ranch and some teens aren't leaving at all. The after math of this situation seems all too telling.



Polygamy's Child Brides Not Yet Rescued by Raid: Ann Woolner
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601039&refer=columnist_woolner&sid=acs1pkGYP1ws

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But even a few weeks in the outside world showed the children and their mothers an alternative to the oppression so many of them suffer, says Jessop, who wrote a book about her experience, ``Escape.''

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And yet, the raid has freed at least some of the women and children from the sect. Now that the courts released them from state custody, not all are returning to the FLDS compound, according to Marleigh Meisner, spokeswoman for the Texas Child Protective Services. She says she can't say how many.

Court Records

We know from court records of one 16-year-old girl not returning home. And an unspecified number of the 72 boys who had been staying at Cal Farley's Boys Ranch near Amarillo aren't returning to the Eldorado complex, either, ranch president Dan Adams told USA Today.

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Texas raided only after authorities, acting on a tip that now seems to have been a hoax, visited the compound and saw clearly underage girls who were pregnant. They interviewed parents who saw nothing wrong with marrying girls to older men once the girls reached puberty. Residents gave conflicting, evasive and downright false information when questioned, according to the state.

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You can only rarely prosecute polygamy as a standalone crime, or remove children from homes due to it, because it is so difficult to prove and blowback from such raids makes them counterproductive.