Reply #15: There was a woman from Utah... [View All]

[fudge stripe cookays]

who called into Ed Schultz this afternoon (I hadn't heard about Malloy yet and hadn't checked in at DU all day).

She evidently lived right near Jeff's compound. It is definitely a cult, and they start these girls out as young as 10! The older guys keep the girls knocked up (she compared it to a zoo in the spring; they're all pregnant!). They leave school, so have no education, and are completely dependent on the older man to support them.

HOWEVER, she said that these assholes have learned how to milk the system completely. They register the first woman as an official wife, then only marry the others within the confines of their "church." Then, these women with their multiple kids can get welfare and AFDC.

She said that there are shelters where these girls can try to escape to, where they can try to help them finish school and break free, but most of them are born into the situation and grow up in it.

She said the young boys are often kicked out (because the old leches want all the girls for themselves). They call them "The Lost Boys." How screwed up is this? There are things involved that I had not considered before (i.e. the welfare, etc)