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Posted by: MyWayOnNow 4 months, 1 week ago

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Annie Jessop lay sleeping outdoors, hoping to escape the summer heat in the stone home she shared with 40 others in 1953, when authorities raided this polygamist enclave to investigate "open and notorious cohabitation."

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hamy4 months, 1 week ago

Patti Hearst loved her captors too.
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river-rat4 months, 1 week ago

This is a sad story because these young girls are so brainwashed and have been prevented from being exposed to any thing other than what these evil men want them to know. It is so wrong and I certainly hope that these children are not returned to that compound. It may not be easy to break this thing up but it must be done for the sake of these kids. I am not surprised to hear that boys were sent away so they could save the young girls for the older men. What a bunch of decadent a holes to pretend it is all about living a Godly life. Oh yeah, raping young girls is certainly Godly. May they be struck down where they stand.
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TheRealizer4 months, 1 week ago

Unless one has spent time in the area these people live you can have no conception of how convoluted their thinking really is.
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Bacalao4 months, 1 week ago

I don't agree with the marrying of young girls. Once they have reach a proper age that is another thing. This country was founded on the freedom of religion, not just freedom of the religions we agree with.
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