CPS: Half of sect's teen girls have been pregnant
Texas CPS: 31 of 53 FLDS girls taken from ranch are pregnant or have
babies
http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/04/28/polygamist.retreat.ap/index.html
Girls range in age from 14 to 17
More than 400 youngsters scattered to homes across Texas
SAN ANGELO, Texas (AP) -- More than half the teen girls taken from a
polygamist compound in west
Texas have children or are pregnant, state officials said Monday.
An infant in a car seat is seen through the window of a bus leaving the
tem****ary shelter in San
Angelo, Texas.
A total of 53 girls between the ages of 14 and 17 are in state custody
after a raid 3½ weeks ago
at the Yearning For Zion Ranch in Eldorado.
Of those girls, 31 either have children or are pregnant, said Child
Protective Services spokesman
Darrell Azar. Two of those are pregnant now, he said; it was unclear
whether
either of those two
already have children.
"It shows you a pretty distinct pattern, that it was pretty pervasive," he
said. Watch a re****t
on minors becoming mothers »
State officials took custody of all 463 children at the ranch controlled
by
the Fundamentalist
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, saying a pattern of teen
girls
forced into underage
"spiritual" marriages and *** with much older men created an unsafe
environment for the sect's
children.
Under Texas law, children under the age of 17 generally cannot consent to
*** with an adult. A
girl can get married with parental permission at 16, but none of these
girls
is believed to have
a legal marriage under state law.
A call seeking comment from FLDS spokesman Rod Parker was not immediately
returned. Church
officials have denied that any children were abused at the ranch and say
the
state's actions are
a form of religious persecution.
Civil-liberties groups and lawyers for the children have criticized the
state for sweeping all
the children, from nursing infants to teen boys, into foster care when
only
teen girls are
alleged to have been ***ually abused
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No one has been charged since the raid, which was prompted by a series of
calls to a domestic
abuse hotline, pur****tedly from a 16-year-old forced into a marriage
recognized only by the sect
with a man three times her age. That girl has not been found and
authorities
are investigating
whether the call was a hoax. Watch who might be behind the calls »
On Monday, CPS also revised its total count of children in state custody
to
463, up one from
Friday. Azar said the change resulted from finally getting the children
out
of the San Angelo
Coliseum and into foster facilities around the state, where they were able
to get a more accurate
count.
[Ad: advertisement]Of those 463 children, 250 are girls and 213 are boys.
The sect, which broke from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
more than a century
ago, believes polygamy brings glorification in heaven. Its leader, Warren
Jeffs, is revered as a
prophet. Jeffs was convicted last year in Utah of forcing a 14-year-old
girl
into marriage with
an older cousin.
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