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CHIMO Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-23-04 06:05 PM
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Allegations of abuse at Bountiful commune
VANCOUVER - An investigative team is being assembled to check out abuse allegations at the Bountiful commune near Creston.
He says there is a serious groundswell of public concern about the polygamous commune, which is part of a breakaway Mormon sect.
Debbie Palmer, who at 15 was assigned to be the sixth Bountiful bride of a 55-year-old man, says the attorney general's announcement is overdue.

She claims underage girls have been trafficked across the border and impregnated by men in positions of power.


http://vancouver.cbc.ca/regional/servlet/View?filename=bc_bountiful20040723
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xchrom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-23-04 06:14 PM
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1. oh those patriarchs
yes indeedy -- god whispering in their ears about 15 year old girls.
shudder -- how gross. what took the ag of utah so damn long.
that's just as bizarre.
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CHIMO Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-23-04 08:17 PM
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4. Not Utah
It is BC, Canada that is opening the investigation.


For further info on this see:

http://www.cbc.ca/fifth/polygamy/

Scroll to the bottom of the page and there are four links to further reports.
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sally343434 Donating Member (628 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-23-04 06:20 PM
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2. Why do cults always involve sex with little girls?
What is it with cults/religions and kiddie sex? Mormons, Jim Jones, Waco, and the rest all seem to revolve around sex with young girls. Former members of Koresh's Waco cult freely admitted that they happily "served up" their young girls, some as young as 11, to Koresh. It seems he slept with a different little girl every night. Stories like this routinely come out of these cults once they have self-destructed.

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latebloomer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Jul-23-04 07:45 PM
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3. Same sort of shit
in some Indian/yoga type cults. Only there the leader is gaining some kind of divine tantric energy from the 14-year-old girls. Yeah, right.
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