'The news said the kids are trained to call all their father's wives "mother." There's a lot of lying by the women, too.'
link, proof?
The children identify all the women in the house as their mothers (http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iIdMpRHjN4hpNKBhfYyAsR4DDo4QD906CI781) and if a father leaves the community, children and mothers are reassigned to another man, a child welfare investigator testified during a hearing last week.
Child protection officials have said that when the children were removed from the compound, it was the first time they had ever ridden on a bus or seen the outside world. ...
Law enforcement officials and former sect members have said girls as young as 13 are forced to marry men who may be 40 years their seniors. The sect practices polygamy as originally preached by the founder of Mormonism, Joseph Smith, in the 19<SUP>th</SUP> century.
“When I lived in that community, child abuse was a way of life,” (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24237472/)Jessop told TODAY’s Hoda Kotb. In an interview on TODAY two weeks ago, she spoke of infants being severely spanked and subjected to a form of water torture to break their wills.
Jessop, who has written a book about her experience entitled “Escape,” insisted that girls are regularly married off at very young ages. She pointed out that the sect’s leader, Warren Jeffs, is in prison for forcing a 14-year-old girl to marry and have sex with her first cousin.
“It is happening and it was happening at a rampant rate when I was involved in the community,” said Jessop, who escaped before Jeffs began building the Texas ranch five years ago.
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A Texas judge has ordered the 416 children removed from the polygamous sect in Texas to remain in state custody, and, along with their parents, to undergo DNA testing to determine both paternity and maternity, according to the Christian Science Monitor. (http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0421/p01s02-usju.html)
The tests will help the court sort out a tangled web of familial relations and reveal not only who the real dads are, but the real moms as well. This could be needed, experts say, because a younger child in the sect may consider more than one of the so-called "sister-wives" to be his or her mom.
According to some legal experts, once moms are identified, there's a possibility they, along with the dads, could be charged as complicit to statutory rape, if they were found to willingly turn over their underage daughters, some who may have been as young as 12 or 13, for "spiritual marriages."
"As long as the women were conspiring in the child sex abuse, knowingly allowing these underage marriages, all of them are capable of being indicted," says Marci Hamilton, an expert on church-state issues at Cardoza Law School in New York and author of the recently released "Justice Denied: What America Must Do To Protect Its Children."
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After an unprecedented two-day hearing involving at least 350 attorneys, state District Judge Barbara Walther ruled the children would remain in state custody until each child could be granted individual hearings by June 5.
She also ordered each child and adult member of the sect undergo DNA testing in a bid to untangle confusion over parentage, identities and family ties (http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/life/religion/5713398.html) in this reclusive breakaway Mormon sect.
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You are challenging my statement that the women are doing a lot of lying. The state would not be having this much trouble identifying who is who if the mothers told the truth. They cannot afford to tell the truth, however, as the DNA testing will tell two things: who is related to whom and thus had babies illegally early; and who is illegally a child of incest, which the state believes to be a common practice in this cult.
We need a lot more transparency. These cults that get together and imprison people in remote locations and do weird sexual things ---
It's always about sex with the young girls. That's a cult staple, that and multiple sex partners. Doesn't matter the cult, from Koresh, to the Oneidas, to the Mormons, to Jim Jones, it's always about sex by dominant males with lots of little girls.
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