Wednesday, June 15, 2005

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | The lost boys, thrown out of US sect so that older men can marry more wives

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | The lost boys, thrown out of US sect so that older men can marry more wives: "Up to 1,000 teenage boys have been separated from their parents and thrown out of their communities by a polygamous sect to make more young women available for older men, Utah officials claim.

Many of these 'Lost Boys', some as young as 13, have simply been dumped on the side of the road in Arizona and Utah, by the leaders of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (FLDS), and told they will never see their families again or go to heaven."...
Mr Hill said although the boys may have been rebellious, their expulsion had more to do with the ruthless sexual arithmetic of a polygamous sect....

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