A fundamenalist compound of underage girls
April 21st, 2008 | Published in Fundamentalism, Current Events, Links, Religion | 1 Comment
A Mormon sect has been found with a compound of underage girls they were marrying off. Quite disgusting:
A raid was finally triggered April 3, after a family violence shelter received a hushed phone call from a terrified 16-year-old girl saying her 50-year-old husband had beaten and raped her.
State troopers put into action the plan they had on the shelf to enter the compound, and 416 children, most of them girls, were swept into state custody on suspicions that they were being sexually and physically abused.
Doran said it was not until after the raid began that he learned that the sect was, in fact, marrying off underage girls at the compound and had a bed in its soaring limestone temple where the girls were required to immediately consummate their marriages. Also, investigators said a number of teenage girls there are pregnant.
April 21st, 2008 at 10:28 am (#)
I don’t agree with Mormon Fundamentalists on a number of things, but both polygamy and teenage wives were common in O.T. Israel.
Also, they have yet to identify the girl who made these allegations, and they have yet to find any actual evidence of abuse.
Oh, and government officials have now sent the wives back into the compound, and are refusing to allow them any contact with their children.
Just sayin’.