Idaho polygamous sect member gets 90 days on child injury charges

[IDemo]

Source: Reuters

A member of a breakaway Mormon polygamous group on Tuesday was sentenced by a judge to 90 days in jail on child injury charges for the mistreatment of teenage boys placed in his Idaho home as discipline by the sect, a prosecutor said.

The case against Nathan Jessop stems from his role in the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, or FLDS, as the assigned caretaker of youths expelled to his so-called "repentance home" for their supposed misbehavior.

Authorities said his task at the home was to “reprogram” the boys, aged 13 to 17, who were actually cast out of the church because they were viewed by older men as potential rivals for young women wanted as wives.

Jessop was cited in August for three misdemeanor counts of injury to a child for confining one of the boys to a cramped furnace room in his house and for failing to report two teens as runaways after they fled the residence on the outskirts of Pocatello, in southeastern Idaho.

Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/10/01/us-usa-polygamy-idaho-idUSKCN0HQ2Y920141001

[logosoco]

1. Somehow I get the feeling 90 days in jail is not going to change this person.

Anyone at this age, in this day and age, who looks at boys in the age range of 13-17 as rivals for potential wives is not going to change after sitting in prison for three months.

I don't know what to do about someone like this, but make sure they stay away from all kids. For a long time.

[MADem]

2. He'll regard it as a religious test, and it will make him worse.

I don't understand why imprisoning "runaways" (cough) and children who are homeless and at risk in a frigging furnace room doesn't carry a longer sentence.

[jwirr]

3. Shouldn't we ask Mitt?

[Fred Sanders]

4. Religious zealotry is an international curse, it crosses all borders and sincerely held beliefs, it

is the antithesis of reason.

[freshwest]

7. Your own sincerely held belief is that it's about religion. It's no more about that than the gang in

Lord of the Flies, which was required reading in my high school, along with 1984 and the Brave New World.

Reduce these things to their component parts, like pack animals. The Alpha in a wolf pack is the one who will breed with the Alpha female. This explains the 'generation of lost boys' created by polygamous societies and the reason why women would vote Republican.

We are not that different than the animals, it's about reproduction and territory. Euphemistically called land and resources, and civil society.

Religion and ideology are just the cover stories for something deeper and darker. There is no spiritual component, organized or otherwise, in that cruel arithmetic.

The guy who is said to be 'disciplining' these boys could do this under any cover. People organize into many groupings, this is an excuse. He's not been assigned to teach them anything. He was assigned to keep them out of the breeding pool, which he has done, whether they stay as his prisoners or run away from the community.

The result in either case is the same, the Alpha males will have first choice of females to mate with and that's all this is.

Some male felines, large and small, will kill the offspring of the female they wish to mate with, in order to push their own lineage. Stallions and other males will fight for this too, and this is what this guy is maintaining here.

What is plain and honest in the behavior of mute animals is covered up with words by humans.

The end results are the same. I don't dress this stuff up with religion to justify it, and don't hold faith with those who would comfort themselves by feeling superior to the chanting masses, or the anti-religion believers.

Strip the labels and words describing things away, that are used to pump the egos of both the pro and anti religionists, and it's all about the animal nature of mankind, not the mind.

JMHO. You have found a belief that makes you feel comfortable, which is what humans do. Myself, the more animalist I see people as being, the less hope I see for the future. Nor do I ascribe to any faiths, pro or antis.

[okasha]

9. Your post deservrs a rec on its own.

We are the animals. Only vanity makes us think we're not.

[freshwest]

10. Well, thanks, I thought I was going to be flamed by a pro or anti there.

[Brickbat]

5. Heartbreaking. Women in those sects suffer a lot, but many of the young men and boys do, as well.

[Brickbat]

6. "I didn't even know what the president was," he said. "I knew there was somebody over the United

States, but I didn't know they called it the president."

http://www.latimes.com/great-reads/la-na-utah-lost-boys-20130508-dto-htmlstory.html

[get the red out]

8. America's little, protected ISIS

Must protect the precious cults so they can exercise their sacred right to misuse and abuse women and children. It's what this great land of the free was built upon!

I'm amazed the son of a bitch didn't get a medal for his sincere religious dedication.