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First look inside YFZ Ranch

I agree with Carol's comment. One thing people forget when they read these distraught interviews is how very flexible the concept of "truth" is to cult members. Much of the offenses spewed here - that cops were "ransacking their homes", were "yanking their children out of their arms" - may simply be fabricated to buttress their case as defenseless victims, as they fight for even the tiny, tiny piece of happiness that they have been allowed in life, by their male "owners": Access to their kids. Really: If you had nothing else, ABSOLUTELY NOTHING, not even control of your own body, your own MIND, what's left for you to value in life but your children? These poor people need a way out. Or if it's too late for them, their children need a way out.

Good grief! Are these people hurting anyone?? Are they bothering people to become part of their religion?? Are the children starning or homeless?? LEAVE THEM ALONE!!

I don't understand how these people can be living for God.
They certainly don't seem to be living for the same God as I am.
My God, the Heavenly Father of Jesus Christ does not condone this stuff.. he doesn't condone polygamous relationships or segregating yourselves from the world.

i don't understand how they can believe to be following Him, yet doing all this stuff that he teaches against.

I am not a Mormon or member of any sect affiliated with Mormonism, but after reading "Escape," by Carolyn Jessop, Ex FDLS wife of Merril Jessop, I know that the children's individual mothers love their, and the communities kids, but the fathers have a very distant and mentally abusive relationship. The family in the book had one wife that was very abusive to the other wives, and their children. She would often beat a toddler (under 3) till it would stop crying due to fatigue from crying. If this isn't abuse, what is abuse.
And M. Jessop would place a wife that he was upset with in a job that would seperate her from her kids. This would mentally terrorize the woman, as she wouldn't know if her children were getting proper care and meals. The wife, Carolyn, had 4 dangerous pregnancies, and 1 handicapped child, these were attributed to her disobidiance, and not being "In harmony with her Prieshood Head. (husband.") I feel that it is one right to practice a religion of their choice, and worship as they choose. But the religions, and religious leaders should follow the laws of the land.