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Affidavit: Fearful 16-year-old bride made late-night call
SAN ANGELO, Texas (CNN) -- Frightened and perhaps pregnant for the second time in a year, the 16-year-old mother whispered into a borrowed cell phone, defying everything she'd been taught by making contact with the outside world.
She said she was being held against her will at the YFZ Ranch near Eldorado, Texas. She said she'd been beaten by the man, more than three times her age, who had taken her as his seventh wife. Now, her parents were talking about sending her younger sister, 15, to the ranch as well.
She said she wanted out.
The first call came through to a Department of Family and Protective Services hot line at 11:32 p.m. March 29. A second call came the following day.
This time, the caller said, crying, that she wanted to take it all back. She said she was "happy and fine" and didn't want to get in trouble.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/04/09/...nch/index.html
Lawyers: Polygamist Compound Search Like Searching of Vatican
SAN ANGELO, Texas — Lawyers for a polygamist sect that is the subject of a massive child-abuse investigation argued in court Wednesday that although its members' multiple marriages and cloistered ways may be unusual, they have a right to their faith and privacy.
Gerry Goldstein, a San Antonio lawyer representing the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, also told a judge that the search of the temple in the sect's West Texas compound is analagous to a law enforcement search of the Vatican or other holy places.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,349113,00.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24014376/
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