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The FLDS temple in the YFZ Ranch
The FLDS temple in the YFZ Ranch

The YFZ Ranch, also known as the Yearning for Zion Ranch,[1] is a 1,700-acre (7 km²) community just outside of Eldorado in Schleicher County, Texas, United States. It is owned by the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS). It is about 45 miles (72 km) southwest of San Angelo and 4 miles (6 km) northeast of Eldorado. The Ranch was settled by members of the FLDS Church who left Hildale, Utah and Colorado City, Arizona under increasing scrutiny from the media, anti-polygamy activists and law enforcement officials.[2] Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (2048 × 1536 pixel, file size: 1. ... Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (2048 × 1536 pixel, file size: 1. ... Eldorado is a city located in Schleicher County, Texas. ... Schleicher County is a county located in the state of Texas. ... For other uses, see Texas (disambiguation). ... The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS Church) is one of the largest Mormon fundamentalist denominations[1][2] and one of Americas largest practitioners of plural marriage. ... San Angelo is a city in and the county seat of Tom Green CountyGR6, Texas, United States. ... Eldorado is a city located in Schleicher County, Texas. ... Hildale is a city in Washington County, Utah, United States. ... This article is about the U.S. state. ... Colorado City is a town in Mohave County, Arizona, United States and is located in a region known as the Arizona Strip. ... Official language(s) English Spoken language(s) English 74. ...

Contents

Background

A view of the FLDS ranch

The FLDS church purchased the ranch in 2004 for $700,000[3] and quickly began development on the property.[4] When William Benjamin Johnson (who was fined for hunting without a license) purchased the property, he contended that the buildings were a corporate hunting retreat.[2] Later, ranch officials disclosed that the hunting retreat description was inaccurate; the buildings were part of the FLDS church's residential area.[5] Image File history File links Download high resolution version (2000x1391, 1444 KB) Summary an aerial view of the FLDS compound in Eldorado, Texas. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (2000x1391, 1444 KB) Summary an aerial view of the FLDS compound in Eldorado, Texas. ...


Currently the ranch, home to approximately 500 people who relocated from Arizona and Utah communities, houses a temple, a waste treatment facility, a 29,000-square-foot (2,700 m²) house for FLDS church president Warren Jeffs, a meeting house, and several large log and concrete homes.[6] There are generators, gardens, a grain silo, and a large stone quarry that was cut for the temple. The ranch is thought to be self-sufficient. According to preliminary tax assessments, about $3 million worth of buildings have been built. The sect has been fined over $34,000 for environmental violations in connection with buildings on the ranch, mainly due to its failure to obtain the required permits for its cement-mixing operations.[7] Warren Steed Jeffs (born December 3, 1955) was the leader of a controversial Mormon fundamentalist polygamist sect known as the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS Church) from 2002 to 2007. ...


A local newspaper, the Eldorado Success, reported that the temple foundation was dedicated January 1, 2005, by Warren Jeffs.[8]


April 2008 raid

On March 30, 2008, a Child Protection Project crisis center run by ex-member of FLDS Flora Jessop received the first of the phone calls making allegations of abuse, setting off large emergency responses that sometimes involved dozens of police officers.[9] Flora Jessop recorded nearly 40 hours of Swinton's phone calls, both before and after the raid on the YFZ ranch.[10] Swinton posed alternately as "Sarah Barlow" and her sister Laura. She claimed that her 50-year-old husband beat and raped her and that his other wives tried to poison her.[11] Authorities revealed that Swinton is single with no children, and is suspected multiple personality disorder.[12] is the 89th day of the year (90th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2008 (MMVIII) is the current year, a leap year that started on Tuesday of the Anno Domini (or common era), in accordance to the Gregorian calendar. ...


April 3

Texas law enforcement officers entered the ranch on April 3,[13] following allegations of physical and sexual abuse of a 16-year-old girl.[14] is the 93rd day of the year (94th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Physical abuse is abuse involving contact intended to cause pain, injury, or other physical suffering or harm. ... Bad Touch redirects here. ...


The call was the basis for a large-scale operation at YFZ Ranch by Texas law enforcement and child welfare officials, beginning with cordoning off the ranch on April 3.[15] Troopers and child welfare officials searched the ranch,[16] including the temple's safes, vaults, locked desk drawers, and beds.[17] Authorities believed the children "had been abused or were at immediate risk of future abuse," a state spokesman said.[18] They removed 52 girls on the 4th,[15] and eventually a total of 462 children[19][20][21] went into the temporary custody of the State of Texas.[22] The children were being held by the Child Protective Services at Fort Concho and the Wells Fargo Pavilion in San Angelo,[23] where they are housed until authorities decide who will have custody of them.[24] 133 adult women chose to leave the ranch when the children were removed, in many or all cases for the sake of contact with the removed children.[25] Children under the age of four were allowed to stay with their mothers until DNA testing to identify family relations was finished; once DNA testing is complete, only children under 18 months will be allowed to stay with their mothers indefinitely.[26] is the 93rd day of the year (94th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Fort Concho is a National Historic Landmark in San Angelo, Texas, and is owned and operated by that city. ... San Angelo is a city in and the county seat of Tom Green CountyGR6, Texas, United States. ... Genetic fingerprinting or DNA testing is a technique to distinguish between individuals of the same species using only samples of their DNA. Its invention by Sir Alec Jeffreys at the University of Leicester was announced in 1985. ...


USA Today reports documentation showing that Texas Ranger Brooks Long called Colorado officials about two phone numbers. The document says that one of the numbers "was possibly related to the reporting party for the YFZ Ranch incident," and was connected to Rozita Swinton, a Colorado Springs woman who had previously made false police reports. In February 2008, for example, Swinton called 911 and said her name was "Jennifer" and that she was injured and in a basement. She also has been accused making calls made to a crisis center run by Flora Jessop and pretending to be a girl in another FLDS compound. During the call, Swinton reportedly said in a little baby voice, "If you rescue me, and I get out of here, do you think the black people will hurt me?"[27] Colorado Springs police arrested Swinton for the call in April.[28] During a search executed in conjunction with Swinton's April arrest for the February "Jennifer" calls, Texas authorities have also found items "suggesting a connection between Swinton and calls regarding the Eldorado retreat and other Texas and Arizona compounds owned by FLDS".[29][28] The Texas Rangers said Swinton became a "person of interest" several days after the raid.[28] For other uses, see Texas Rangers. ... Colorado Springs is a middle-sized city, located just east of the geographic center of the state of Colorado in the United States. ... This article is about the year 911 A.D.. For the emergency telephone number, see 9-1-1. ... Flora Jessop is a critic and former member of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints church, a polygamous group unaffliated with the Mormon church. ... The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is a denomination of Mormon fundamentalists within the Latter Day Saint movement, and may be Americas largest polygamous group. ... Texas Rangers American League AAA Oklahoma RedHawks AA Frisco RoughRiders A Bakersfield Blaze Clinton LumberKings Spokane Indians R Arizona Rangers The Texas Rangers are a Major League Baseball team based in Arlington, Texas, a suburb in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex. ...


April 6

A former member of the FLDS Church, Carolyn Jessop, arrived on-site April 6 in hopes of reuniting two of her daughters with their half siblings.[30] She stated that the actions in Texas are unlike the 1953 Short Creek raid in Arizona.[30] Jessop had been in Texas the prior month at a speaking engagement, where she said, "[i]n Eldorado, the crimes went to a whole new level. They thought they could get away with more" but "Texas is not going to be a state that's as tolerant of these crimes as Arizona and Utah have been."[31] Others, however, have drawn direct connections between the two events.[32][33] is the 96th day of the year (97th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... The Short Creek raid is the name given to Arizona state police and U.S. National Guard action against Mormon fundamentalists that took place on the morning of July 26, 1953 at Short Creek, Arizona. ...


April 8

As of April 8, as many as 533 women and children had been removed from the ranch by authorities.[34][35] 416 children (both boys and girls), ranging in age from six months to 17 years, have been placed in state custody because authorities believed they "had been abused or were at immediate risk of future abuse," a state spokesman said.[36] Authorities obtained additional warrants to enter the temple. Officers broke open safes, vaults, doors and locked desk drawers.[37] is the 98th day of the year (99th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...


April 10

On April 10, law enforcement completed their search of the ranch, returning control of the property to the FLDS Church.[38] is the 100th day of the year (101st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...


Post-raid events

On April 16, several of the mothers appeared on Larry King Live to ask for their children and tell their story from their own viewpoint.[39] The program included a guided tour of the ranch by one of the mothers, showing where the children and families sleep and eat and stressing the loss felt with the children all now gone. The mothers declined to discuss the pending allegations of child abuse.[40] is the 106th day of the year (107th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Larry King Live is an American talk show hosted by Larry King on CNN. The show debuted in 1985, and is CNNs most watched program, with over one million viewers nightly. ...


On April 17, a custody hearing began in the Tom Green County Courthouse to determine whether the children would remain in state custody. Judge Barbara Walther heard testimony from State officials, experts called in by the State and witnesses for ranch members over a period of 2 days while hundreds of lawyers representing the children looked on and offered objections. State officials alleged a pattern of abuse by adults, including marriages between young girls and older men, while ranch residents insisted that no abuse had taken place.[41] is the 107th day of the year (108th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Tom Green County is a county located in the state of Texas. ...


On April 18, after 21 hours of testimony, Judge Walther ordered that all 416 children seized be held in protective custody and that the DNA of the children and adults be tested to establish family relationships. Children younger than 4 will be separated from their mothers over 18 after DNA samples are taken; older children have already been separated. Children are to be given individual hearings to determine whether they must be moved to permanent foster care or returned to their parents.[42][43] is the 108th day of the year (109th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Solitary confinement, colloquially referred to as the hole (or in British English the block), is a punishment in which a prisoner is denied contact with any other persons, excluding members of prison staff. ... The structure of part of a DNA double helix Deoxyribonucleic acid, or DNA, is a nucleic acid molecule that contains the genetic instructions used in the development and functioning of all known living organisms. ...


On April 21, DNA testing of children and adults began.[44] is the 111th day of the year (112th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...


On April 24, authorities stated that they believed 25 mothers from the YFZ Ranch are under 18.[45] In addition, a total of 46 women from the sect opted to go to shelters for women with hopes for having better chances to see their children again.[46] is the 114th day of the year (115th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...


On April 28, 2008, authorities announced that of the 53 girls aged 14-17, 31 have children or are pregnant.[47] Under Texas law, children under the age of 17 generally cannot consent to sex with an adult. is the 118th day of the year (119th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2008 (MMVIII) is the current year, a leap year that started on Tuesday of the Anno Domini (or common era), in accordance to the Gregorian calendar. ...


On April 30, 2008 Carey Cockerell, representing Texas CPS investigators, said they have identified 41 children with past diagnoses of fractured bones. FLDS says this rate is considerably below the national average, especially considering they come from a rural background and have a physically active life style. CPS investigators also made new allegations of sexual abuse of boys, without giving any proof of that. Rod Parker, who represents the FLDS community in Texas called this information "headline grabbing" without factual support. He said that the reports from hospitals and care providers indicate no abuse evidence. He also said that the families have told investigators early on they suffered from hereditary bone disease. Two children have broken bones while they were removed from the ranch, and one little girl broke a bone while in custody.[48] is the 120th day of the year (121st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2008 (MMVIII) is the current year, a leap year that started on Tuesday of the Anno Domini (or common era), in accordance to the Gregorian calendar. ...


"Lost boys"

The Texas child-protection authorities have been criticized, following the YFZ Ranch raid, for paying attention only to allegations of abuse against teenage girls, while ignoring the 'lost boys'.[citation needed]


Criticism of the raid

Many FLDS members and supporters see raid and the seizure of the children from their family as religious persecution[49] and have likened it to a witch-hunt.[50] Religious persecution is systematic mistreatment of an individual or group due to their religious affiliation. ... A witch-hunt is a search for suspected witches; it is a type of moral panic. ...


The Christian legal group Liberty Legal Institute believes the State of Texas should be required to prove that the children taken the church compound were actually abused or were in imminent danger, warning of possible damage to religious liberties and the rights of all Texas parents. Home-schooling families are also fearful opponents could file similarly file false complaints against families to force attendance in government run schools.[51]


Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff disagreed with the drastic removal: Mark Shurtleff Mark Shurtleff is the current attorney general of the state of Utah, United States, since 2001. ...

"Let's say you're a 6-month-old girl, no evidence whatsoever of any abuse. They're simply saying, 'You, in this culture, may grow up to be a child bride when you're 14. Therefore we're going to remove you now when you're 6 months old,"' he said. "Or, 'You're a 6-month-old boy; 25, 30 years, 40 years from now you're going to be a predator, so we're going to take you away now."[52]

National Review's John Derbyshire declared the raid the "atrocity of the month" for April 2008, citing Ilana Mercer's "They're coming for your kids!" as the only editorial piece he had seen critical of the drastic removals.[53][54] National Review (NR) is a biweekly magazine of political opinion, founded by author William F. Buckley, Jr. ... John Derbyshire (born June 3, 1945) is a British-born author who lives in the United States and became a naturalized citizen in 2002. ... Ilana Mercer (author photo). ...


On May 8, 2008, Ronald L. Trowbridge, former chief of staff to Chief Justice Warren Burger and the Commission on the Bicentennial of the U. S. Constitution, authored an op-ed piece in the Dallas Morning News. In the op-ed piece, Mr. Trowbridge was critical of Judge Barbara Walthers and her ruling, removing over 430 children from the YFZ Ranch. Mr. Trowbridge wrote, "The chief impropriety of Judge Walther's decision to remove all 462 children from their parents was that it was indiscriminately too broad – akin to using a shotgun when she should have used a rifle. And – speaking of child abuse – snatching kids from their parents for an indefinite period is its own form of abuse."[55] Warren Earl Burger (September 17, 1907 – June 25, 1995) was Chief Justice of the United States from 1969 to 1986. ... An Op-Ed is a piece of writing expressing an opinion. ... The Dallas Morning News is the major daily newspaper serving the Dallas, Texas area. ...


See also

Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith is an historical novel written by Jon Krakauer. ...

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Further reading

  • Bistline, Benjamin G. Colorado City Polygamists: An Inside Look for the Outsider (2004). A Colorado City historian presents the beginnings of the group and its original religious doctrine. ISBN 1888106859
  • Bistline, Benjamin G. The Polygamists: A History of Colorado City, Arizona (2004). ISBN 1888106743
  • "The Primer" - Helping Victims of Domestic Violence and Child Abuse in Polygamous Communities. A joint report from the offices of the Attorney Generals of Arizona and Utah.(2006)
  • Van Wagoner, Richard S. (1999). Mormon Polygamy: A History. UK: Prometheus Books. ISBN 0941214796. 
  • Quinn, D. Michael (1998), "Plural marriage and Mormon fundamentalism", Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought 31 (2): 1–68, <http://content.lib.utah.edu/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/dialogue&CISOPTR=10335&REC=20>.

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