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ELDORADO, Texas (CNN) — Dozens more children and young women were removed Saturday from a Texas ranch that is home to members of a polygamist sect, as state workers investigated claims of physical and sexual abuse.
A total of 183 people — including 137 children — have been taken away since law enforcement officers raided the compound Thursday night, said Marleigh Meisner, a spokeswoman for the Texas Child Protective Services Division.
The children — most of them girls — were being interviewed by special investigators, she said.
“We’re trying to find out if they’re safe,” she explained. “We need to know if they have been abused or neglected.”
Eighteen of the girls have been taken into state custody.
Authorities believe that they “had been abused or were at immediate risk of future abuse,” said Child Protective Services spokesman Darrell Azar.
The others were taken to a nearby civic center. Meisner described them as doing “remarkably well.”
Authorities continue to search the 1,900-acre YFZ ranch, occupied by followers of imprisoned polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs, and at least one man is being sought by police.
Law enforcement agencies raided the ranch Thursday night after receiving a report Monday that a 16-year-old girl had been “sexually and physically abused,” Azar said.
Jeffs, the 52-year-old leader and “prophet” of the 10,000-member church, was convicted in Utah last year and sentenced to 10 years on two counts of being an accomplice to rape, charges related to a marriage he performed in 2001. He faces trial in Arizona on eight charges of sexual conduct with a minor, incest and conspiracy.
Jeffs’ Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints bought the land near Eldorado four years ago and built the ranch, which they call the YFZ Ranch. The letters are said to refer to the words Yearning for Zion.
It is home to as many as 400 members who relocated from their Arizona and Utah compounds.
State and local law enforcement agencies set up roadblocks around the ranch Thursday evening, preventing journalists from seeing what was happening on the property, according to Randy Mankin, editor of the Eldorado Success weekly newspaper.
“This came totally out of the blue,” Mankin said.
There were no indications of violence around the ranch, he said.
Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS Church) is the largest Mormon fundamentalist denomination and one of America’s largest practitioners of plural marriage The FLDS Church emerged in the 1930s as an apostate offshoot of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church); the split occurred largely because of the LDS Church’s continued renunciation of polygamy and its decision to excommunicate practitioners of plural marriage in southern Utah and northern Arizona. There is no official connection between the FLDS Church and the LDS Church; they are distinct and separate denominations.
Since its inception, the headquarters of the FLDS Church have been in Hildale, Utah, which is a twin city with Colorado City, Arizona. However, news reports since 2004 have suggested a possible shift of the church’s headquarters to Eldorado, Texas, where a temple has been built by FLDS Church members. As of 2007, the church was being led by Warren Jeffs, who succeeded his father Rulon Jeffs in 2002. For nearly two years, Warren Jeffs had been wanted on sex-crimes charges; and from May 2004 until his arrest in August 2006 he was on the FBI’s Ten Most-Wanted List. On September 25, 2007, Jeffs was found guilty of two counts of being an accomplice to rape and was sentenced to ten years to life in prison.
Although news reports have circulated that Warren Jeffs had formally resigned as the president of the FLDS Church, the statement released by his attorneys reads as follows: “Mr. Jeffs resigned as President of the Corporation of the President of The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Inc., on November 20, 2007.” It is possible that Warren Jeffs is still heading the FLDS church, as the narrowly crafted statement by his attorneys does not state that he stepped down as prophet of the church. William E. Jessop, Jeffs’ first counselor in the FLDS church presidency, was named by Jeffs as his successor - even going as far as stating that Jeffs never was the leader of the FLDS, but this has not necessarily been accepted by Jeffs followers, many of which claim Jeffs is still leading the church. FLDS Compound.
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November 4th, 2008 at 2:17 am
L.O.A,& F.L.D.S are Mormon! L.D.S. is not!
November 4th, 2008 at 5:25 pm
I’d say if Mormon’s are Christians, then FLDS are Mormons.
I’ve made a few videos on the topic.
November 5th, 2008 at 6:58 am
they may have 3/4 of the same name as us….but they are not mormons
November 6th, 2008 at 7:24 pm
Old men having sex with 11 years old girls is not cool. ps Texas is not a country. Keep sweet and God bless the wiggles!
November 9th, 2008 at 7:10 pm
I stand with the “LDS CHURCH SPEAKS OUT ABOUT FLDS POLYGAMY” video. Watch it. Other than that, I have nothing else to say to you. Thanks.
November 11th, 2008 at 7:09 pm
SEX OFFENDER CAMP COME ON IN .
November 15th, 2008 at 2:35 am
They had an image that others chose not to accept. In the early days they were against slavery in southern states and in the north they drew lots of political power with their members gathering in one spot. People are always fearing and not loving to strangers. Bad images come with what is conceived to be weakness. In the past they were strong.
November 18th, 2008 at 4:01 am
Are you kidding? Are you sure your LDS? Open your Pearl of great price, IO!
November 19th, 2008 at 2:51 am
Dude, I’m LDS (mormon) and I understand the urgency to educate anyone interest in the difference between us and the FLDS but your video was creepy to me. What was the picture with egyptian reference anyway? I just didn’t get it. Sorry.
November 21st, 2008 at 7:03 am
And that makes it right?? Whatever…I don’t have time for ignorance!!
November 24th, 2008 at 10:34 am
age of men older than 17 has no bearing on the law. young teens are having sex all over the US.
November 25th, 2008 at 3:49 pm
#2 I could understand if CONSENTING ADULTS WHO wanted to practice polygamy, even though it’s illegal, well so is prostitution, and drugs but hey, if they are ADULTS and that is the lifestyle they want to live AND THEY ARE FREELY AND WILLINGLY CHOOSING TO DO THAT then who are we to say anything?? BUT, in this case WE ARE TALKING ABOUT CHILDREN!!! CHILDREN WHO HAVE BEEN FORCED TO BARE CHILDREN BY GROWN MEN, 40-50 YR.OLD GROWN MEN. AND THAT IS A CRIME.
November 27th, 2008 at 9:44 am
#1 I don’t know about a flds, or a lds, or a loa, or abc or lmnop…. but what I do know is I have read Carolyn Jessop’s book and coming from someone who lived it and survived to speak about it, I believe that there were CRIMES commited and those crimes were not only committed by the men but also by those childrens mothers, by not protecting their kids from them pedophiles.
November 30th, 2008 at 4:54 pm
jiffydarren. Get your head out of the peanut butter and learn nsomething about LDS people. we do use electronics. We go to school in universities and do stuff with technology. You are thinking about the omish and ignoring the large amount if infromation techology in our economy. So once again, get educated.
December 1st, 2008 at 8:06 pm
A mormon telling someone to go get educated? Hah! Pretty big words from a person who thinks a microwave is witchcraft!
December 2nd, 2008 at 12:34 pm
Im not sure where you get the statistics for Muslims in Utah practicing polygamy more than LDS/FLDS.. But that is an interesting statement.
December 5th, 2008 at 3:44 am
The FLDS and LDS had a BAD image LONG before baby bumkin
December 6th, 2008 at 4:12 pm
you are a freaking idiot, that didn’t clear anything up about the LDS or the FLDS church, it just gave the LDS church a bad image.
December 9th, 2008 at 11:24 pm
Hey, Icouldn’t find much online about Son Ahomn. Why wold people confuse you with the LDS and why do you think your a magical magician? My interiest in humanity drives me to understand other people. What exactly is your theological feel and interiest in life?
December 11th, 2008 at 5:48 am
The LOA? You play with magic?. By the way, the women explained that the hair style was to be unattractive and prevent adultry. Why are you not interiested in taking a side regaurding religeous rights? This is clearly a hate crime from a baptist/prespaterion community. Either they are interiested in it occuring or they don’t dissaprove of this crime enough to act. The irony of it is that this compound had only one person below 18 even pregnant. Oddly they don’t have lots of pregnant teens.
December 12th, 2008 at 2:27 pm
First of I never said I believe in Chrit Or Christ. We are NOT Christian Mormons Christ is not in our name. We call him Son Ahman! Jesus was not even alive in David or King Solomon’s time. I ain’t no Biggot! Get you facts Trandos-LDS!
December 14th, 2008 at 7:23 am
What are you saying? You are such a sneaky little liar. LOA? You call yourself christian but don’t belong to a church named after chrit? Are you insulting King David? Solomon and other forefathers of Christ? Is this how you honor Christ? Buy insulting the men which he loved in his history? You have a sharp tounge and no education of of the jewish and christian histories. Your explenations are baised on rumors. I’m LDS. I know what I believe and know when your wrong. Get Educated biggot!