-Yahoo.com -Eldorado, Texas - More than 400 children, mostly girls in pioneer dresses, were swept into state custody from a polygamist sect, The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, in what authorities described Monday as the largest child-welfare operation in Texas history.
Dressed in home-sewn, ankle-length dresses with their hair pinned up in braids, some 133 women left of their own volition along with the children.
Girls as young as 14 and 15 were being forced into marriages with much older men.
What a dreadful life. :o(
And no, they were not having a pioneer festival today. Call the fashion police too.
5 comments:
So amazing that women go along with being treated like this, in this day and age, all in the name of "God". This is religion at it's worst.
I hope like hell these women are able to start new lives...and when they do, they are going to be PISSED.
yes, they are going to be amazed at what the real world holds.
The sad part is that some of them may not be able to handle it. Big changes ahead.
Isn't that just SAD...
The men don't wear funny clothing, but they make the women dress as if they are inferior, mindless, slaves, baby factories. SHAMEFUL!!The few women interviewed who had "excaped", dressed very fashionably and looked beautiful. They handled it, but some do go back, needing to be cared for, no matter how degrading ! DOUBLE SHAMEFUL !!!!!!
oops, I mean escaped.
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