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uppityperson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Apr-20-08 03:03 PM
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44. They kicked the boys out onto the street. Statutory raped the girls.
I think you need to read more news articles. Do a search on news for FLDS and start reading.

Here is 1 article to get you started, statutory rape:
http://www.star-telegram.com/state_news/story/592943.html
Sect has kicked out some 2,000 teen boys
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Observers say the boys at the West Texas compound are believed to be favorites of Warren Jeffs, the so-called prophet of the FLDS even as he serves time in prison for arranging the marriage of a 14-year-old girl to her 19-year-old cousin....(more)


Here's another:http://www.redding.com/news/2008/apr/20/all-quiet-on-the-southwestern/
In recent years, sect members and their prophet, Warren Jeffs, were being investigated by authorities in the sister cities of Hildale, Utah, and Colorado City, Ariz., for allegedly marrying off girls as young as 13 to much older men with multiple wives. Women and girls who fled the sect -- and boys who'd been forced out or abandoned -- told stories of forced marriages, incest and abuse; some who left called the FLDS a destructive cult.
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