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[lotty]

http://www.wkcurrent.com/default.asp?sourceid=&smenu=71&twindow=Default&mad=No&sdetail=1535&wpage=&skeyword=&sidate=&ccat=&ccatm=&restate=&restatus=&reoption=&retype=&repmin=&repmax=&rebed=&rebath=&subname=&pform=&sc=1107&hn=wkcurrent&he=.com
FLDS compound in Eldorado a world apart
EDITOR’S NOTE — This is the first of a two-part account of the Yearning for Zion Ranch near Eldorado, less than 125 miles from Ingram. It was the site of an extraordinary raid by Texas authorities in early April in the wake of complaints about sexual and physical abuse of children.

By Lise Lieder Miller

Special to the Current

[lotty]

http://www.wetmountaintribune.com/home.asp?i=439&p=1
County says FLDS compound violates zoning regulations
7/10/2008
Authorities use search warrant to enter property

With a search warrant in hand, local authorities accompanied Custer County zoning director Jackie Hobby to the FLDS compound in Bull Domingo last week to check for possible building and zoning violations. The Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints compound was inspected last Thursday, July 3.

[GollyGeeWhiz]

http://blogs.sltrib.com/plurallife/

Brooke's blog entry from July 11th title: FLDS parenting classes

[Bruce Perry] praised FLDS mothers as loving and respectful of their children but said they had created an unhealthy, ''authoritarian'' environment at the ranch. That environment puts the children at risk of impeded brain development, he said.

He focused on underage marriages as a problem, saying ''young girls who are 14, 15 or 16 are not emotionally mature enough to enter into healthy sexual relationships'' and said FLDS children are allowed only limited choices.

Perry has worked with children from the Branch Davidian sect, which was decimated in a 1993 FBI raid that killed 76 people, 21 of them children.

[GollyGeeWhiz]

http://blogs.sltrib.com/plurallife/

Brooke's blog entry from July 11th title: FLDS parenting classes

[Bruce Perry] praised FLDS mothers as loving and respectful of their children but said they had created an unhealthy, ''authoritarian'' environment at the ranch. That environment puts the children at risk of impeded brain development, he said.

He focused on underage marriages as a problem, saying ''young girls who are 14, 15 or 16 are not emotionally mature enough to enter into healthy sexual relationships'' and said FLDS children are allowed only limited choices.

Perry has worked with children from the Branch Davidian sect, which was decimated in a 1993 FBI raid that killed 76 people, 21 of them children.

[GollyGeeWhiz]

http://www.gosanangelo.com/news/2008/jul/09/challenges-left-no-one-unchanged/

Challenges left no one unchanged

Interesting opinion piece by Dan Adams, president and CEO of Cal Farley's Boys Ranch, one of the facilities that cared for some of the FLDS children while they were in state custody.

[lotty]

http://origin.sltrib.com/news/ci_9864515
Texas officials gather more DNA evidence for criminal case
By Brooke Adams
The Salt Lake Tribune
Article Last Updated: 07/12/2008 11:59:47 PM MDT
Texas authorities working to build a criminal case against polygamous sect leader Warren S. Jeffs took a third genetic sample from an FLDS mother and her child on Saturday.

[lotty]

http://deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,700242957,00.html

Trust serves papers on FLDS ranch
By Ben Winslow
Deseret News
Published: Monday, July 14, 2008 12:04 a.m. MDT

Lawyers for the court-controlled real-estate holdings arm of the Fundamentalist LDS Church have served court papers on the polygamous sect's Texas ranch.

[lotty]

http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_9884279
Judge to consider new attorney for Jeffs girl
By Brooke Adams
The Salt Lake Tribune
Article Last Updated: 07/15/2008 12:58:20 AM MDT

[lotty]

http://deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,700242957,00.html
Trust serves papers on FLDS ranch
By Ben Winslow
Deseret News
Published: Monday, July 14, 2008 12:04 a.m. MDT

Lawyers for the court-controlled real-estate holdings arm of the Fundamentalist LDS Church have served court papers on the polygamous sect's Texas ranch.

[lotty]

http://www.abc4.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=f2dbeeeb-a553-4b17-9cd0-a8bc268240f5
FLDS Senate hearings: Could history repeat itself?
Reported by: Chris Vanocur
Last Update: 7/15 10:58 pm


SALT LAKE CITY (ABC 4 News) - Next week's expected senate hearing on polygamy is being called the biggest one in a century. More than a century ago, a U.S. Senator from Utah was almost expelled because of on-going concerns about plural marriage.

[lotty]

http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_9884280
Feds to hear Reid's bid for FLDS probe
By Brooke Adams
The Salt Lake Tribune
Article Last Updated: 07/15/2008 12:58:21 AM MDT

[lotty]

http://www.sltrib.com/popculturetech/ci_9890163
Hildale-Colorado City FLDS settlements
Facing evictions, polygamous sect wants to boot trust overseer
By Brooke Adams
The Salt Lake Tribune
Article Last Updated: 07/16/2008 06:29:54 AM MDT

[lotty]

http://www.sltrib.com/ci_9886422
Arrest warrant issued for woman whose bogus tip allegedly triggered FLDS raid
The Salt Lake Tribune
Article Last Updated: 07/15/2008 07:53:18 AM MDT

[GollyGeeWhiz]

Lotty -- as always, thanks for the links. I'm reading them all, and waiting for the 22nd.

[lotty]

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/5895744.html
July 18, 2008, 10:46PM
Documents could play role in criminal probe of FLDS sect

By TERRI LANGFORD
Copyright 2008 Houston Chronicle

Warren Jeffs, the jailed leader of the nation's largest polygamist sect under investigation for sex with underage girls, married off his 15-year-old daughter to the 34-year-old son of his chief deputy, according to pictures, diaries and a marriage record obtained Friday by the Houston Chronicle.

[lotty]

http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2008/07/27/magazine/20080727_FLDS_SLIDESHOW_index.html
The Young Women of the F.L.D.S.

[lotty]

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/27/magazine/27mormon-t.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
By SARA CORBETT
Published: July 27, 2008
This article will appear in this Sunday's Times Magazine.

On a humid Wednesday in late June, as she waited to be summoned by a grand jury, 16-year-old Teresa Jeffs hitched up her navy blue prairie dress and hoisted herself into the crooked arms of a live oak tree that sits in front of the Schleicher County Courthouse in Eldorado, Tex. For a few minutes, she was not — as has been speculated about many of the young women of the Fundamentalist

[lotty]

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-polygamy23-2008jul23,0,7885214.story
Texas charges Warren Jeffs, other polygamists with sexual assault of minors

[Roamer]

Five indicted so far.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080723/ap_on_re_us/polygamist_retreat

[lotty]

http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/20...727-ZION_2.html
Inside Their World
The New York Times Magazine

More photos, this time at YFZ.

[lotty]

http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/20...727-ZION_2.html
Inside Their World
The New York Times Magazine

More photos, this time at YFZ.
:groan: Sorry that link doesn't work, use this one instead.


http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2008/07/27/magazine/0727-ZION_index.html

[lotty]

After the Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing last Thursday.
http://www.azfamily.com/video/localnews-index.html?nvid=266688

[lotty]

http://www.myeldorado.net/
!!! BREAKING NEWS !!!
ELDORADO TX -- 4:00 p.m CST -- July 29, 2008
Doctor Lloyd Barlow was released from the Schleicher County Jail this afternoon after posting bail on three Class * misdemeanor charges of Failure to Report Child Abuse. The remaining four suspects are reportedly having trouble making bail after the Texas Attorney General's Office opposed a bail reduction.

Raymond Jessop, Allan Keate and Michael Emack, all charged with Sexual Assault of a Child (1st Degree Felony) remain behind bars awaiting $100,000 cash bond for each. Meanwhile Leroy Jessop is held in lieu of $200,000 bail on a charge of Sexual Assualt of a Child and Bigamy, both 1st Degree Felonies.