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AP (via Jezebel ) is reporting that five male members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS) have turned themselves in to the police. They were indicted with the crime of having sex with minors, as was FLDS "prophet" Warren Jeffs . One of the men, Merrill Leroy...

Interesting little twist in the FLDS/Texas CPS case: Carey Cockerell, the head of the agency, announced that he is retiring . The interesting part is that the press release announcing the news makes no mention of the now-infamous seizing of 400+ children from the Polygamy Compound a few months ago, which...

Are the members of the FLDS victims of religious persecution? That's what some people from the polygamy-practicing sect are saying. A Texas court is holding hearings to determine what will happen to the children who were removed from the ranch last month, and with "463 children, 168 mothers...

Here's the latest from the FLDS case . - A "polygamist teen" in state custody gave birth to a healthy baby boy at Central Texas Medical Center. Spokespersons for Texas Child Protective Services (CPS) and the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (FLDS) issued conflicting...

It was two weeks ago that hundreds of children were extracted from the YFZ Ranch in Eldorado (YFZ stands for "Yearning For Zion," it's not the name of a new rap group. Yet.) The polygamous compound (the phrase sounds like an ointment you would put on a wart) is run by the Fundamentalist...

Authorities have moved in on the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints compound in Texas and removed 159 children and 60 adults since Thursday . They were alerted by a call from a 16-year-old girl, who said she had been married to 50-year-old Dale Evans Barlow. The girl reported...