Authorities Trace Call About Polygamy Sect

DSTCHAOS · #1 04-30-2008, 05:29 PM

http://www.wjactv.com/family/15969696/detail.html

While Texas authorities have finished taking DNA samples from all the children removed from a polygamist compound more than two weeks ago, court documents show one phone number used to report alleged abuse at the compound had been used previously by a 33-year-old Colorado woman.

Yikes! What now?

Kevin · #2 04-30-2008, 05:36 PM

The only question is whether the police were acting in good faith when they searched the premises.

srmom · #3 04-30-2008, 05:44 PM

I've been reading alot about this in the Houston paper, and the impression that is given by the Child Protective Services is that even if the call is found to be a fake, it will not negate the process of taking the kids. Once they were in there and saw the pregnant teenage girls (which they have found 31 of the 52 girls between the ages of 13 and 17 are either expecting now or have already had children or both

), they had the legal authority to take action, that in fact, they MUST take action. Like if a teacher suspects abuse, they MUST report it and it MUST be followed up on.

The whole thing is really disturbing. One of my good friends was Mormom. She left Utah after college and never went back, and has VERY strained relations with many of her family members, of which there are a ton (she is decended from the 7th wife of her grandfather, who had over 40 kids). She is disgusted by this offshoot cult.

If you want to know about the Mormom church's formation, and also specifically about the Jeff's FLDS movement, there is a very interesting book that my friend recommended to me called Under the Banner of Heaven.

If you think Scientology is based on some kooky ideas, the Mormon Church rivals it for kooky beginnings.

texas*princess · #4 04-30-2008, 06:46 PM

I'm confused.. maybe I just didn't read it correctly.

That number used to belong to a 33-yr old woman, or still does belong to that same woman?

At the very beginning of all this mess, wasn't the suspected 50-yr old husband of this guy claiming he had been in another state (Colorado?) and that he didn't even know that girl?

Is it possible that girl was with him i that state and got away to get help and found this 33-yr old woman who sympathised with her and let her use her phone?

I haven't been following this case as closely as others may have so I'm not clear on everything.

Drolefille · #5 04-30-2008, 08:40 PM

The woman they suspect of making the calls, unless this has changed, has a history of making abuse calls. She had a lot of "research" on the compounds, the Texas one and one like it in Arizona. She also has Dissociative Identity Disorder (aka Multiple Personalities).

Her motivation for this, I don't know, but she might have been trying to bring them down, she might have identified with the women to an extent that "Sarah" is one of her personalities... who knows.

They don't know that it was her phone now, just that she's used that number in the past. Perhaps it's a cell phone or another number that is easily transferred.

Benzgirl · #6 04-30-2008, 09:12 PM

^^^ That is exactly what I read last week

LucyKKG · #7 04-30-2008, 11:41 PM

How odd...

I mean, not like the whole situation isn't odd but...it just adds to the puzzle.

epchick · #8 05-01-2008, 12:13 AM

This story just keeps getting stranger.

I swear that I was watching TV like 2 weeks ago (i wanna say it was TXCN, but i'm not too sure now) when they announced they had found out who the 16 year old girl was. They said it was NOT a girl from the compound but from somewhere nearby and she was "supposedly" being abused by her father. Then they went on to say that because they found the girl & she wasn't part of the compound that they were going to investigate how legal the raids were.

Hmmm....

but I'm like t*p, i don't follow this case very closely, so I tend to believe any little tidbits that I hear on the TV...lol.

Drolefille · #9 05-01-2008, 12:25 AM

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Originally Posted by epchick

This story just keeps getting stranger.

I swear that I was watching TV like 2 weeks ago (i wanna say it was TXCN, but i'm not too sure now) when they announced they had found out who the 16 year old girl was. They said it was NOT a girl from the compound but from somewhere nearby and she was "supposedly" being abused by her father. Then they went on to say that because they found the girl & she wasn't part of the compound that they were going to investigate how legal the raids were.

Hmmm....

but I'm like t*p, i don't follow this case very closely, so I tend to believe any little tidbits that I hear on the TV...lol.

I haven't heard that, although it might have been one of their theories at one point. It's really only the FLDS lawyers who are trying to investigate the legality of the raid. The authorities appear to have acted in good faith, and convinced a judge of that.

We may not know for sure, but that's where things are at the moment.

AKA_Monet · #10 05-01-2008, 02:18 AM

Not trying to be judgmental

, but how come most of the women in that "Laura Ingall" dresses have synophrys?

Drolefille · #11 05-01-2008, 09:03 AM

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Originally Posted by AKA_Monet

Not trying to be judgmental

, but how come most of the women in that "Laura Ingall" dresses have synophrys?

You're just a show off, aren't you

My theory for their unibrows is inbreeding and no plucking.

AKA_Monet · #12 05-01-2008, 08:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Drolefille

You're just a show off, aren't you

My theory for their unibrows is inbreeding and no plucking.

Do they have mirrors in these places? And they have malocclusions...

srmom · #13 05-02-2008, 11:26 AM

I heard on the news that a baby of one of the girls was born last night (first birth, but there are many more to come, lots of pregnant girls). She swears that she is 18, but authorities believe she is more like 16, and this is her SECOND child

texas*princess · #14 05-03-2008, 08:58 PM

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Originally Posted by srmom

I heard on the news that a baby of one of the girls was born last night (first birth, but there are many more to come, lots of pregnant girls). She swears that she is 18, but authorities believe she is more like 16, and this is her SECOND child

That's insane.

Educatingblue · #15 05-04-2008, 08:40 AM

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Originally Posted by srmom

I heard on the news that a baby of one of the girls was born last night (first birth, but there are many more to come, lots of pregnant girls). She swears that she is 18, but authorities believe she is more like 16, and this is her SECOND child

It's amazing how all of the pregnant girls are 18. They should have done a better job of briefing the girls on what to say before the raid.