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Originally Posted by Pressing-On
Yes, I am aware of the age of consent in Texas. I believe I posted our law on that in an earlier post.
The whole issue of why the compound moved here has always caused the authorities to be concerned and I say, "Rightly so".
They knew about the groups practices and why they left Utah. "Recent cases brought by Utah and Arizona law enforcement authorities to prosecute the problems associated with polygamy -- bigamy, criminal nonsupport of children, child rape, forced marriage of minor girls and fraud of the welfare system -- have shone the spotlight on the insular community."
The strangest thing was when Schleicher County Sheriff David Doran tracked down the representative of record for YFZ Land LLC of Utah, the purchaser of the 1,691 acres. That representative, David Allred, said the property was to be used as a hunting lodge for the company's clients. But the answer didn't sit right with residents.
The community knew that couldn't be right. The locals knew what hunting lodges looked like. They didn't look like dorms. They also wondered with them having elk and bear in Utah why they would want to come and hunt white-tailed deer.
So, really the whole thing has been very suspicious from the get go.
I agree that is was a terrible thing for the children to be separated from their mothers. I'm not aware of any news reports saying there are only two girls that are currently pregnant, nor do I think we have all the facts.
Everything is still speculation. I guess we will see what the judge orders on the 17th.
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Ha! I forgot you are from Texas. Perhaps your normal objectivity is a bit clouded?
1. What happens at other places did not mean it was happening in Texas. The Ranch website claims that they do not get welfare but for the elderly and disabled. I have seen no credible allegations about
this specific group of people to the contrary.
2. Disney World didn't tell their surrounding neighbors what they were up to either when they began buying property. Chances are that the group just wanted to be left alone but...
3. They weren't. The library stocked one side of the polygamy story and the Eldorado Newspaper did article after article about them and/or related polygamous groups. A judge or justice even took to flying his plane over their property as did others.
4. Politicians got the law changed and some crimes went from misdemeanors to felonies. The age for marriage was raised specifically because of the polygamist in Eldorado. Is that not indicative of discrimatory practices against a particular religion based on their lifestyle?
5. What was lost on Texas and most of America is that the polygamist are people who bleed just like we do; and have children who their whole lives wrap around just like us.
6. A motion by the church attorney specifically says there are two known pregnant girls and one who refused to take the pregnancy test.
These facts by the attorney are not couched in statistics or cloudy confusion. It is forthright and verifiable. Something that most of the statements coming from Texas authorities haven't been.
7. In fact, it is pretty pathetic to look at all the sensationalized allegations made by Texas authorities and trumpeted to the media that now can be shown to have no basis in reality.
8. And yet Texas holds on to all the children even as nine (2%) of the children are hospitalized. However, physical illness likely pales in compariaon to the psychological harm inflicted by the state upon innocent children in their over-reaching.
But of course a
Texas judge will be able to sort everything out May 17th. No political pressure there, eh?
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