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Apr 6, 2008 10:24 AM CDT

Standoff Ends at Polygamist Compound

Police still searching for girl linked to abuse claim

(Newser) - Though "preparing for the worst," a SWAT team peacefully entered a polygamous sect's Texas compound after a tense standoff, the Salt Lake Tribune reports. They met limited resistance from members of the Mormon fundamentalist sect, and were continuing to search this morning for a 16-year-old girl believed to...

Nearly 200 Pulled From
Polygamists' Ranch

Apr 5, 2008 6:56 PM CDT

Nearly 200 Pulled From Polygamists' Ranch

State workers question kids about abuse, neglect claims

(Newser) - State workers bused out dozens more women and children today from the Texas compound of a polygamous sect, CNN reports. Troopers and child protection officers have removed 183 people, 137 of them children, since sealing off the ranch Thursday night. Investigators are now interviewing the kids, most of them girls,...

Texas Pulls 52 Kids From Sect Compound

Apr 4, 2008 7:20 PM CDT

Texas Pulls 52 Kids From Sect Compound

Rape charge sparks move at Warren Jeffs' polygamy site

(Newser) - Texas authorities pulled 52 kids from the compound of a polygamous sect today after a girl said she was raped there, the Houston Chronicle reports. Eighteen of the children were bussed out by court order, based on claims of abuse or neglect, and put into temporary custody. State troopers are...

Western Towns Rebuild Library Jeffs Destroyed

Jan 21, 2008 3:42 PM CST

Western Towns Rebuild Library Jeffs Destroyed

Books disappeared under reign of jailed Utah polygamist

(Newser) - Two tiny towns on the Utah-Arizona border are pushing to restock the shelves of their library, reports the Deseret Morning News, in a first step toward healing rifts caused by imprisoned polygamist Warren Jeffs. With Hildale, Utah, and Colorado City, Ariz., firmly in the grip of the Mormon splinter group's...

Jeffs Gets
Two Terms on Rape Charges

Nov 20, 2007 5:45 PM CST

Jeffs Gets Two Terms on Rape Charges

Polygamy leader sentenced as accomplice in Utah

(Newser) - Polygamous sect leader Warren Jeffs received consecutive five-year-to-life terms today for two counts of accomplice to rape, the Salt Lake Tribune reports. A Utah judge also made him pay $18,500 on each count of forcing an underage girl to marry in 2001 at the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ...

Polygamist Boss Ordered Girl
to 'Surrender'
to Husband

Sep 14, 2007 4:05 AM CDT

Polygamist Boss Ordered Girl to 'Surrender' to Husband

Jeffs charged with rape as an accomplice

(Newser) - Polygamist Warren Jeffs was accused yesterday of ordering a 14-year-old girl to surrender to her older cousin in an arranged marriage. That amounts to rape as an accomplice, prosecutors charged in the first day of Jeffs' trial. Church members consider their leader “God on Earth" who could only be...

Mormons Ponder ‘Big Love’ in the Hereafter

Aug 28, 2007 2:55 PM CDT

Mormons Ponder ‘Big Love’ in the Hereafter

2d marriages may cause trouble in paradise

(Newser) - "'Til death us do part” sounds like enough of a commitment, but a loophole has Mormon women wondering if they’ll spend eternity with their husbands … and their second wives. Mormon marriage “seals” a couple, binding them and their children together forever in heaven, but widowed men...

Mormon Faith Bedevils Romney Bid

Jun 20, 2007 9:56 PM CDT

Mormon Faith Bedevils Romney Bid

Voters wary; rivals quick to take advantage (and apologize later)

(Newser) - Mitt Romney is still having to explain and defend his religion on the campaign trail. In recent weeks, staffers for two GOP rivals sent out e-mails questioning Mormon beliefs (the candidates later apologized), notes ABC News. And Romney himself has had to battle misconceptions about his faith, especially with regard...

Nigerian 'Lesbian' Turns Herself In

Apr 28, 2007 10:40 PM CDT

Nigerian 'Lesbian' Turns Herself In

Pursued by police after 'gay' wedding, woman says she's straight

(Newser) - The Nigerian woman whose story of lesbian love on the run made international headlines yesterday has news for the authorities who hoped to arrest her: she's not a lesbian. "I have never practiced— never heard the word 'lesbian'—truly," says Aunty Madiguri, who was accused of violating Sharia...