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Sunday June 8, 2008
FLDS • Polygamy: 
“One of the tenets you learn is that if you leave and you testify against the leaders, you are what they call an apostate and damned to hell,” said Elissa Wall, who wrote Stolen Innocence: My Story of Growing up in a Polygamous Sect, Becoming a Teenage Bride, and Breaking Free of Warren Jeffs.“That’s one of the biggest things, those mind hurdles. … You have to get over this mind thing that you’re going to hell,” said Wall, whose testimony was key in convicting Jeffs last year of being an accomplice to rape for his role in forcing a 14-year-old Wall to marry her 19-year-old cousin.
Saturday June 7, 2008
FLDS • Polygamy: 
Jessop is Warren Jeff’s body guard. “Willie was always the strong-arm man. He was the guy who would show up just to intimidate people,” said Sam Brower, a private investigator. [video]
Friday June 6, 2008
FLDS • Polygamy: “If you are going to conduct yourself that way, we are going to prosecute you,” Governor Rick Perry said. “If you don’t want to be prosecuted for those activities, then maybe Texas is not the place you need to consider calling home.”Tuesday June 3, 2008
Bountiful • FLDS • Polygamy: The community has come under focus in recent months because of a high profile raid of a polygamous compound in Texas.
Monday May 26, 2008
FLDS • Polygamy: Lawyers for the Department of Family and Protective Services also requested that the high court allow the state to keep the children in foster homes until their fate is decided.
Friday May 23, 2008
FLDS • Polygamy: “I just can’t believe they are just sending them back,” Carolyn Jessop said, her tears now noticeable. “That everyone can pretend that the abuse didn’t happen.”
FLDS • Polygamy:
The Department of Family and Protective Services removed children from the Yearning for Zion Ranch in Eldorado after finding a pervasive pattern of sexual abuse that puts every child at the ranch at risk.
FLDS • Polygamy:
A Texas appeals court yesterday ruled that state child-protection officials lacked the evidence to seize children from the compound of a polygamist sect last month, rejecting arguments that the group’s belief system is itself a dangerous form of abuse.
Thursday May 22, 2008
FLDS • Polygamy: The ruling asserted that the state’s child protection agency not only acted hastily in removing the children from the Yearning for Zion Ranch in April but also failed to show that they were in immediate danger.
FLDS • Polygamy:
The Third Court of Appeals in Austin ruled that the grounds for removing the children were “legally and factually insufficient” under Texas law.
FLDS • Polygamy:
Both times, however, sect members at the Yearning for Zion ranch in Eldorado refused to allow the Child Protective Services workers to enter.
Wednesday May 14, 2008
FLDS • Polygamy: Months after helping to send Warren S. Jeffs to prison, Elissa Wall is telling her story in a book she hopes will lead women and girls to leave his polygamous sect.
Saturday May 10, 2008
FLDS • Polygamy: “I know you are worried about that. We’re not going to do it,” Shurtleff said Thursday during a public meeting on polygamy at the Dixie Center. “We don’t believe that is the answer.”
Monday May 5, 2008
FLDS • Polygamy: Warren Jeffs’ continued control relies on the information he gets from the outside world. Based on his visitors’ log at the Mohave County Jail Jeffs is getting his news from women who have little sway in the male-only hierarchy of the FLDS and its sprawling compound near Eldorado, in West Texas.
Tuesday April 29, 2008
FLDS • Polygamy: Asked if the pregnancy rate justified a raid at the Yearning for Zion ranch in Eldorado 3 1/2 weeks ago, Mr. Crimmins recited CPS officials’ testimony at a two-day hearing in San Angelo earlier this month. “There was a pervasive belief that children having children was what they were supposed to do,” he said.
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