Back to TX

May 23, 2008

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I was eating free Cheetos and licorice, getting ready to cover a pair of state championship high school softball games when the calls started coming.

GET TO THE AIRPORT!

So much for any plans. So much for Memorial Day weekend. A court in Texas had ruled that there was insufficient evidence for CPS to remove 450+ FLDS children from the YFZ ranch. I was booked on the next flight. Time to run.

For a couple weeks I’ve been following the case from Salt Lake, thinking about a few things. The story is complicated. Take this example:

I was talking to a source who told me that one of the prominent FLDS men was a mean-spirited thug. He said one of the man’s wives was disabled and wheelchair-bound, and that the man once pushed her over for a laugh. That’s the kind of bully he is, said the source.

It’s the kind of statement that in the past would not really have been “checkable.” But now that the FLDS are a little more open than before…

Later that story was run by the FLDS man in question. It was met with laughter at the accusation, which he found absurd. His response was something along the lines of, “He must know something I don’t, because I don’t even have a disabled wife in a wheelchair.”

Posted by Trent | Filed Under On Assignment, Polygamy, Trent 

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  1. roseanne brown on May 24th, 2008 9:08 am

    first I want to say i think you are great at photography. I hope to use some of them for my desktop. I am 61,mom of 8 and live in san bernardino,calif. I have followed and researched this flds fiasco. I was raised catholic and have only the care of a mother in this case. Check out NPR.org and see that eldorado officials had met years ago with the flds and were scared of the power to control the town by electing their own folks. the sheriff told them what the rules were as to age of girls for marriage and the flds said some were already in unions but no more. Also at web.sccn.2 the audio says judge j doyle took years of aerial photos for eldorado success newspaper for them to spy on them and also to inflame the townfolk.. This town really had it in for the flds and used lots of lies to do it. sorry for typos.

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