Abstract
On April 3, 2008 investigators from the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services raided the Yearning for Zion Ranch in Eldorado, Texas. A sixteen-year old girl named Sarah had reported physical and sexual abuse at the ranch in an anonymous phone call. Home to a large community of members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day. Saints ("FLDS"), the ranch was raided at about 9:00 p.m. Interviews conducted throughout the night with both adults and children, as well as documents found at the Ranch led the Department to remove 486 children from the custooy of their families. The department removed the. children because of a concern that, "the community had a culture of polygamy and of directing girls younger than eighteen to enter spiritual unions with older men and have children." Sarah, the subject of the anonymous phone call, was never found.
Recommended Citation
White, Ryan
(2009)
"Two Sides of Polygamy,"
Utah Law Review: Vol. 2009:
No.
2, Article 13.
Available at:
https://dc.law.utah.edu/ulr/vol2009/iss2/13