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Texas child advocate's report claims underage marriage in FLDS case
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Good ole Malonis and her comment about wishing it had not come to this.
Come to what.....the girl says she was never married....the girl says she has never had sex....even if she was "spiritually united" as long as she denies having had sex there is little proof of anything. If she wrote in a diary........the fantasys of a 15 year old girl can be denied by the girl.
Malonis just had to comment though.....I'm suprised that she didn't comment about not being able to comment.
We have an alleged victim of an alleged crime who will testify that a crime never took place, Great witness to nothing.
I'd like to see a time line of when all of these underage marriages occurred. Didn't Warren snag a few underage girls himself while on the run? Were there any deals made? Were a few Jessop girls handed over to Warren in exchange for his daughter?
Courts don't look very kindly on people like Jeffs who are charged with a crime and then go on to commit similar crimes before being sentenced.
Two five to life sentences could free Jeffs in something like five years with good behavior. The Texas case may guarantee that he is put away for life. It may be best to delay the Arizona case until after the Texas case since there is so much evidence in the Texas case. If there is a conviction in the Arizona case, the Texas case would still need to be heard, however, that is not true for the opposite scenario.
The outcome of all of this is that Jeffs may bring down polygamy due to his brash behavior. He certainly didn't fly under the radar as he should have.
"Interesting thing about this is that it comes right before Congress considers crimes of polygamy."
They are not investigating "crimes of polygamy". They are investigating abuses associated with polygamous sects.
Haven't we heard this time and time again? I'm sure Nancy Grace is having a heyday with this one.
Is this like the alleged 40 girls who were pregnant underage? Is there really any truth behind it? Is it nothing more than an extremely exaggerated little piece of information?
I used to take these allegations hook, line and sinker. Now, the more I investigate, the more I realize big media is nothing more than a retail gossip.
There has simply been too much information made public... by local law enforcement and previous members of the FLDS...to disbelieve all of it.
Just the fact that a man who declares himself a "prophet" and the rightful controller of all FLDS members now finds himself in prison speaks volumes.
I don't doubt for a second that these people have been indoctrinated, many or most from birth, to accept and live this lifestyle.
It has been inculcated into their minds, including the punishment they believe they will suffer if they disagree/disobey.
Is there any doubt which group will have the larger percentage of underage sex?
//These selfish men have talked them into this.//
Well, if the letters and diary entries attributed to Teresa are real, it doesn't seem like she needed all that much convincing to do anything.
Extremely exagerated little piece of information? Let's see, they have "photographs, marriage records, letters, cards and diary entries suggesting an "intimate relationship." CASA also said it had obtained a "dictation" prepared by Warren Jeffs, showing the two were married on July 27, 2006. FLDS leaders Wendell Nielson and Merril Jessop witnessed the ceremony," Hardly flimsy evidence. Left out of this article but reported in the Houston chronicle is the interesting little tidbit that besides this marriage, Warren Jeffs also married himself to an 11 year old. I wonder if that was the one in the photos circulated earlier?