This man is in prison for a reason.. he played a part in
a child in his sect being forced into marrying her cousin
and forcing her to have sex with him against her will.
I believe they call this rape.
Anyone, who calls this man their messiah and follows
his beliefs and lifestyle deserve to be in the same
place that he now resides.
The fact that they hide behind a farce of a religion to
abuse these young girls is a disgrace and society should no
longer turn their backs on it . Besides, it’s not just young girls
they abuse. They send the young men out into the streets,
expel them from the sect so that they won’t take the younger
girls away from the older men.

Are all polygamists white?

I see the state using this pic of Jeffs as a publicity stunt. You can’t paint the whole community with one brush. Like was said by the court, every family has to be looked at separately.

But them using the photo of a girl that is one of the kids taken away doesn’t bode too well for her parents! It shows that they allowed her to be with Jeffs and to kiss or what ever else may have went on! Which is even sick to imagine!

The man is absolutely in prison for a reason…Melanie could not be more on the money!!! I can’t imagine if given the chance and the resources what these children would really say about how they have been treated! What a truly sick man!

“Are all polygamists white?”

No. Polygamy is practiced by every race/ethnicity there is.

And there are people who wonder why the kids were taken away. They worship this guy. They call him the “Prophet”. How ridiculous is that? I hope the guy gets whats coming to him when Bubba calls him “Mary” in prison.

Melanie–that is an excellent point. I feel badly for everyone involved but the state and the parents should have known better. The children are the ones who will suffer!

I don’t think the FLDS parents will ever understand why what they are allowing to happen with their children is abuse; they have been taught all their lives that this is right and that they should do what the prophet tells them. I’m not surprised that this family is using this child as their defense witness; but I am surprised their lawyer is allowing them to do it.

Annie Kate
Birmingham AL

I say shut down the entire world. stop the planes. the markets. the madness. this world has gone off the deep end. I say stop responding to the people who lie to us on a daily basis–the republican party and the oil companies.

I would rather starve and die than support this any longer.

We are headed for certain doom. And doom is preferable to the crap we are supporting now.

Please stay on this story. I was shocked when traveling in AL the other day to hear conservative talk radio people saying the state of TX took these kids ‘for money’ because of the money spent caring for them. I was horrified to hear that there was a chance that these children would be returned to the compound and that were non-polygamists who were FOR that. It is just beyond me how people can oppose the state’s actions. ALL of the parents there put their kids inside a compund run by polygamists who regularly married off young girls to old men, AND after not teaching them about the real world and teaching them the rest of us are evil, sending out young boys to fend for themselves. Yes I should not have my children taken because my neigbhor abuses his kids. And literally choosing a non-tradional lifestyle shouldn’t alone be grounds. BUT if I choose to move to a neighborhood known to be full of sexual predators, that makes door locks illegal, outlaws the police, allows open abuse of children, doesn’t prosecute abusers and whose residents all publically support a known pedophile owning the only daycare in town, well I think that WOULD be a good reason to take my kids away from me! If I leave matches, drugs, poison and knives in my baby’s crib, I think you should take my child from me even if I never physically harm them directly.

Plus polygamy is illegal, as is statutory rape. Was I really hearing from the same people that say when Latinos come here in order to work to be able to care for their kids and break a law in doing so, they are clearly criminals; but when someone breaks a law for religious reasons, the government should ‘leave them alone’ -breaking the law is just fine in that instance?

I didn’t see CNN that night but the radio coverage (non CNN) made it seem like the problem was that TX law addresses ‘physical’ abuse, and gave me the impression that non-beating abuse like emotional abuse would not qualify a child for protection. I would love to see/hear repeated evidence of the real experience these kids had/have as these kids need the attention of the American people AND I would love to hear more informatio on whether our states have adequate protection for kids.

“Plus polygamy is illegal”

That depends on the state.

KarenD-

Interesting. What state is it that says polygamy is legal, against federal law?