Texas Polygamy Bust

  A court case from April 2008 convicted a Texas polygamist community of several accounts of sexual assault. According to Texas officials, the polygamist community groomed young girls for sexual abuse from their much older husbands, as well as encouraging young men within the community to engage in acts of sexual assault. As a result from the court case, several children were taken from their mothers and placed in the care of Child Protective Services.
  Gary Gates, the founder of the Texas Center for Family Rights, disagrees with the position of the court regarding the removal of small children from their families, despite the acts occurring within the Fundamental LDS community.
  This article posed an especially interesting topic in regards to my upcoming book report, detailing the violent acts of sexual abuse within the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Though my presentation on Thursday will provide better insight, the Texas polygamist case from 2008 presents a very similar situation to those of a small town in Nevada called Colorado City. Granted, Fundamentalist LDS groups are not as common, the issue still stands: Are FLDS members practicing their right to the First Amendment (freedom of religion)? Or are they committing felonies by impregnating young girls as early as 12 years old?

Here's the link!