Authorities Trace Call About Polygamy Sect

[srmom]

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]

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]

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.