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FLDS – Mother of 6 escapes 12 year nightmare

Police are saying a mother of 6 was held captive in an Arizona town by Warren Jeffs’ polygamous sect and the local police force it controlled has escaped with her children.  Ruby Jessup who is 26, whose detention in Colorado City led to a criminal probe of the church founded by the now-imprisoned Jeffs, was …

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DOJ files bias suit against towns home to polygamist sect

The DOJ has sued 2 polygamist-dominated towns on the Utah-Arizona border on Thursday, citing religious discrimination and saying they had operated for two decades as an arm of a breakaway Mormon sect.   This complaint accuses the cities of carrying out the “will and dictates” of now-imprisoned sect leader Warren Jeffs, who is serving a prison …

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