Saints Under Siege
The Texas State Raid on the Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints
In April 2008, state police and child protection authorities raided Yearning for Zion Ranch near Eldorado, Texas, a community of 800 members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ Latter Day Saints (FLDS), a polygamist branch of the Mormons. State officials claimed that the raid, which was triggered by anonymous phone calls from an underage girl to a domestic violence hotline, was based on evidence of widespread child sexual abuse. In a high-risk paramilitary operation, 439 children were removed from the custody of their parents and held until the Third Court of Appeals found that the state had overreached. Not only did the state fail t…
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Weitere Autoren: Richardson, James T. (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-8147-8482-2
- EAN: 9780814784822
- Produktnummer: 21432485
- Verlag: Princeton University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 2'632 KB
- Reihenbandnummer: 2
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