I don’t suppose you condone statutory rape of 13 year olds, do you Trey?

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or a pervasive belief “that underage marriage and children having children was what they were supposed to do,”, right?

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Keep trying to defend the indefensible, Trey. Just keep on trying.

As I called for several days ago, the DNA testing will begin by court order. The truth is in the pudding (so to speak). I’m pretty sure there will be some child molestation proved. There will be some unraveling alright…disappointng as it may be to Trey who I’m sure is having a gun-clinging moment about now.

The thing is, the state had no way of knowing whether the call from “Sarah” was a hoax or not. It contained details that only somebody familar with FLDS would know. Taken at face value, then — and the law requires reports of child abuse always be taken at face value for purposes of investigation — it certainly seemed to show that underage women were being subjected to sexual abuse. But which women in the compound, and how does the state go about separating true from false accounts? Obviously, those who may be victims of abuse have to be separated from possible abusers as quickly as possible, and both have to be questioned. There’s no way of knowing what kind of reception state agents would meet in approaching the compound. In other situations, such approaches have been met with violence. The alleged abuse is serious enough to warrant immediate intervention. In a situation such as this, Trey, how would you recommend the state proceed?
Of course the state must defend individual freedom, but whose freedom? The freedom of the children not to be abused, molested, forced into marriage or the freedom of the FLDS community to worship as it chooses? What if that worship includes sexual abuse of minors? Suppose for the sake of argument the authorities had received a credible report that the FLDS was practicing, say, human sacrifice. Would they not be justified in intervening as quickly as possible to prevent further loss of life? Do you consider the possible consignment of underage girls as sexual partners to old men a more acceptable risk? Just how acceptable?
The law will now patiently sort out what was going on behind the walls at the compound, whether young women were abused, whether laws were broken. I have no reason to suspect that the judge in the case is predisposed against this community. Do you? In the meantime, the victims of possible abuse and the possible abusers — which may include both male and female members of the group — have to be separated in order to free the alleged victims from parental or group pressure, and to prevent witnesses from comparing and possibly concocting stories. That’s standard police procedure anywhere, anytime. It’s why children are promptly removed from parents accused of abuse, until the law makes a determination.
One thing, though, has perplexed me: If you do the math, you can easily demonstrate that young men born into a polygamous system in which a few elders monopolize available women will be denied the possibility of marriage. In other cases of polygamy among various LDS breakaway groups, it has been demonstrated that many young men are expelled from the colony and left to their own devices, often as soon as they reach puberty and become potential rivals to the elders. If this is how the FLDS has dealt with its surplus young males, one wonders where the young men of the colony have gone to. They’re certainly not evident in many of the photos.

Ed said, “ They have, what appears to be, hundreds of cases of pedophilia.”

Hmmmmmm, I’ll bet the dough against the cake that we’re going to find out the criteria for finding pedophilia at the renegade Mormon compound if used against the media and current churchdom, well, we’re going to have to build bigger jails or disallow drug convictions.