"John Galt" <whoisjohngalt@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Yes, you're not free to abuse children simply because your religion says
> it's OK.
So it's not ok to mutilate the genitals of children for religious reasons?
Mazel Tov !
> "Reality_Check©" <Reality@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>> 52 girls taken from polygamous sect in Texas
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>>> By Bill Hanna . McClatchy Newspapers . April 4, 2008
>>>
>>> FORT WORTH, Texas -- A total of 52 girls were removed today from a
>>> polygamous sect's compound near Eldorado in Schleicher County, Texas,
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>>> 18 of them legally, while the rest were being questioned this
afternoon
>>> by Child Protective Services caseworkers.
>>>
>>>
>>> All the children have been confirmed to be girls ranging from 6 months
>>> to 17 years old, according to CPS spokesman Patrick Crimmins.
>>>
>>> Crimmins said all the children will be placed in foster homes.
>>>
>>> "We're assessing their needs and making arrangements for their
>>> placement," Crimmins said. "The caseworkers need to have an
op****tunity
>>> to assess their needs and try to find out what the appropriate action
>>> will be."
>>>
>>> The children were taken in two small buses to an undisclosed location
in
>>> San Angelo, 45 miles north of the compound.
>>>
>>> No arrests have been made.
>>>
>>> Schleicher County Justice of the Peace James Doyle, who arraigns
>>> suspects brought to the Schleicher County Jail, said no one has been
>>> brought into the jail.
>>>
>>> "We don't know anything," Doyle said.
>>>
>>> Randy Mankin, editor of the Eldorado Success, said the roadblocks
remain
>>> on the roads leading to the ranch.
>>>
>>> Surveillance of the YFZ Ranch, which is owned by the Fundamentalist
>>> Church of Latter Day Saints and led by Warren Jeffs, began Thursday
>>> afternoon and continued throughout the night, Texas Department of
Public
>>> Safety spokesman Tom Vinger said.
>>>
>>> Around midnight, Child Protective Services investigators entered the
>>> compound, located about 45 miles south of San Angelo, and began
>>> questioning members of the sect.
>>>
>>> This afternoon, a bus left the compound with children in it.
>>>
>>> Vinger described the sect followers as "very cooperative" and that the
>>> group is "providing all of the people we need to talk to" about the
>>> complaint.
>>>
>>> Vinger said authorities have implemented flight restrictions to
prevent
>>> anyone from flying over the compound and said the Texas Rangers are
also
>>> involved.
>>>
>>> The sect bought the 1,691-acre ranch in 2003.
>>>
>>> The group began building a temple and other buildings on the remote
>>> ranchland. Jeffs, who was considered their prophet, was arrested near
>>> Las Vegas in 2006 and was sentenced to consecutive life sentences in
>>> November in Utah for his role in arranging the marriage of teenage
>>> cousins. He also faces federal charges in Arizona and Utah.
>>>
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