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Over Half Of Female FLDS Teens In Texas Custody Have Been Pregnant

Here we are, worried about the sexualization of 15-year-old Miley Cyrus, when 31 out of 53 girls from the ages of 14-17 from the Yearning For Zion ranch are pregnant or already have children. Although the polygamist Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints have been claiming that they do not marry off 13 and 14 year old girls to older men, the number of very young yet pregnant girls seems to refute these claims. What's more, there are 53 girls ages 14-17 who were taken from the ranch, while only 17 boys in that age group were living with the sect. (The gender divisions in children under 14 were about 50/50.) This gives credence to the tales of "lost boys" of the FDLS: adolescent males who were exiled from the sect to keep the gender imbalance favorable for polygamous unions. More »

9:30 AM on Tue Apr 29 2008
By Jessica
11,194 views, 209 comments

Latest by bria: @angrycandy: I don't really understand your post. When the police are notified that girls under the age of consent are pregnant by older men, they investigate etc. When the police aren't notified, there's no way for them to know. The government isn't more »