vincentML -> RE: Religious couple do it again (4/24/2013 10:11:51 AM)
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ORIGINAL: tweakabelle This is truly sick. How twisted does an ideology or belief system have to be that it prevents parents providing the most basic health care to their children? Why did the court fail to ensure the welfare of the other children after the parents failure to take care of the first child who died? Having said that, what does it say about their belief system that they need to be forced to take care of their children? No doubt this twisted couple were ardent Right-To-Lifers. Sick. Sad. Utterly utterly preventable Are you familiar with the Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints? Children raised in plural families isolated from the primary society, young boys driven off and young girls marrried off. Talk about sick! In November 2008, 12 FLDS men were charged with offenses related to alleged underage marriages conducted during the years since the sect built the YFZ Ranch.[56] As of June 2010, six FLDS members have been convicted of felonies and received sentences ranging from seven to 75 years.[57] [edit] Prosecutions in Texas On November 5, 2009, a Schleicher County, Texas jury found Raymond Merril Jessop, 38, guilty of sexual assault of a child. According to evidence admitted at trial, Raymond Merril Jessop sexually assaulted a 16-year-old girl to whom he had been "spiritually married" when the girl was 15 years old.[58] The same jury sentenced Raymond Jessop to 10 years in prison and assessed a fine of $8,000.00.[59] On December 18, 2009, a Schleicher County, Texas jury found Allan Keate guilty of sexual assault of a child. He was sentenced to 33 years in prison. Allan Keate fathered a child with a 15-year-old girl.[60] According to documents admitted at trial, Keate had also given three of his own daughters away in “spiritual” or “celestial” marriage, two of them at 15 and one at 14, to older men. The youngest of the three went to Warren Jeffs.[61] On January 22, 2010, Michael George Emack pled no contest to sexual assault charges and was sentenced to seven years in prison. He married a 16-year-old girl at YFZ Ranch on August 5, 2004. She gave birth to a son less than a year later.[62] On March 17, 2010, a Green County, Texas jury found Merril Leroy Jessop guilty of sexual assault of a child after deliberating only one hour.[58] Evidence admitted at the criminal trial proved beyond a reasonable doubt that Merril Leroy Jessop, 35, sexually assaulted a 15-year-old girl while living at the FLDS Ranch in Schleicher County, Texas.[58] The jury sentenced Jessop to 75 years in prison and assessed a $10,000.00 fine.[63] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamentalist_Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter-Day_Saints#Plural_marriage_and_placement_marriage
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