Title: Over 400 kids taken for plygamist sect
Description: in Texas
Keneke - April 8, 2008 06:04 AM (GMT)
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ELDORADO, Texas - More than 400 children, mostly girls in pioneer dresses, were swept into state custody from a polygamist sect in what authorities described Monday as the largest child-welfare operation in Texas history.
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The dayslong raid on the sprawling compound built by now-jailed polygamist leader Warren Jeffs was sparked by a 16-year-old girl's call to authorities that she was being abused and that girls as young as 14 and 15 were being forced into marriages with much older men. |
storySad :( We really need to keep these kiddo's in prayer :(
Stringaling - April 8, 2008 02:00 PM (GMT)
That is aweful. I'm glad one of them had the strength to speak out..
Keneke - April 8, 2008 02:52 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Stringaling @ Apr 8 2008, 08:00 AM) |
| That is aweful. I'm glad one of them had the strength to speak out.. |
I just hope they find her :(
Stringaling - April 8, 2008 03:11 PM (GMT)
Perhaps she's keeping a low profile because she's scared of the possible outcomes...
Keneke - April 8, 2008 03:49 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (Stringaling @ Apr 8 2008, 09:11 AM) |
| Perhaps she's keeping a low profile because she's scared of the possible outcomes... |
I know. This whole thing makes me ill. I wish I could help more w/ the kiddo's etc. I just feel helpless :dunno:
sf49erfan - April 29, 2008 12:29 PM (GMT)
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Of those 463 children, 250 are girls and 213 are boys. Children 13 and younger are about evenly split — 197 girls and 196 boys — but there are only 17 boys aged 14 to 17 compared with the 53 girls in that age range.
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http://news.aol.com/story/_a/31-of-53-sect...428171009990001How did they get three times as many teenage girls as boys? Either the boys ran away or something really bad happened. I'm concerned that there is going to be a mass grave found.
hope4today - April 29, 2008 02:22 PM (GMT)
| QUOTE (sf49erfan @ Apr 29 2008, 07:29 AM) |
| QUOTE | Of those 463 children, 250 are girls and 213 are boys. Children 13 and younger are about evenly split — 197 girls and 196 boys — but there are only 17 boys aged 14 to 17 compared with the 53 girls in that age range.
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http://news.aol.com/story/_a/31-of-53-sect...428171009990001How did they get three times as many teenage girls as boys? Either the boys ran away or something really bad happened. I'm concerned that there is going to be a mass grave found. |
The missing boys are 'dumped' by the sect to reduce competition for the many wives they need.
This article is old but it covers it fairly well
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2005/jun/14/usa.julianborger Stringaling - April 29, 2008 06:05 PM (GMT)
Yeah, those groups always find reasons to kick the boys out, but do not claim that it is for the competition reasons--its always a punishment thing or something...