3 more polygamist-sect members indicted in Texas

Associated Press ^ | September 23, 2008

[Zakeet]

A west Texas grand jury investigating allegations that members of a polygamist sect sexually abused girls indicted three more people Tuesday, raising the number of defendants in the case to nine.

Each of the sect members indicted Tuesday by the Schleicher County grand jury was charged with sexual assault of a child, and two face an additional charge of bigamy, state Attorney General Greg Abbott said in a statement. Abbott's office has taken over prosecution of the case from local authorities in the tiny county.

The names of those charged were not immediately released, but none had been charged previously. The grand jury earlier had indicted six other members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, including jailed sect leader Warren Jeffs.

The grand jury has now met three times to consider evidence against residents of the Yearning For Zion Ranch, which is run by the FLDS, a breakaway Mormon sect.

All but one of those indicted has been charged with sexual abuse of a child, and some also have been charged with bigamy. The sect's doctor has been charged only with three misdemeanor counts of failure to report child abuse.

[patton]

Thanks for the ping.

[pandoraou812]

I never thought they were....However you know you are going to get that witch hunt business coming at you soon don’t you? lmao ~Pandy~

[JRochelle]

Polygamy update ping!

[deport]

Men are indicted.......

I wonder when those pure women folk who sat idly by and let those childern be abused are going to get some charges filed against them? They are at least as complicit as the doctor who drew misdemeanor charges.

[D-fendr]

I have the same question.

In a previous FLDS case, a victim was promised they would not go after her mother if she testified against her abuser.

I have no idea if this is the situation in any of the Texas cases.

[SkyPilot]

She needs to move that box of tissues closer to the camera in order to magnify the "sympathy" effect of this staged photo taken by the Salt Lake Tribune.

[wolfcreek]

Now Peter, you KNOW we're not suppose to talk bad about the *Religion of Peace*.

Besides, I the Muzzies are more clever than the FLDS.

[ejonesie22]

I was framed I tells ya, framed!

Yeah, yeah, that's it, it was them CPS peoples, they done it....