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<description>One of the strangest scenes in American culture, law and religion unfolded in West Texas after police raided a compound run by a polygamist sect.</description>
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<pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2008 00:54:05 CDT </pubDate>

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        <title><![CDATA[ Hard Choice for Polygamy Moms: Your Cult or Your Kids]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[Mothers from the Yearning for Zion polygamist compound in Texas may have to distance themselves from their religion&mdash;or face not getting their children back, the Dallas Morning News reports. Texas officials have prepared a list of goals the women need to work toward to prove they can provide a home free from the risk of child sexual abuse&mdash;and the guidelines may be unworkable under the sect's communal living arrangements.]]></description>
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        <pubDate> Thu, 15 May 2008 04:30:28 CDT  </pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[  Polygamist 'Teen' Gives Birth ]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[Another young woman taken from a Texas polygamist sect has given birth while in state custody. The mom has claimed to be 22 years old, but state officials say she is only 17, reports the Salt Lake Tribune.]]></description>
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        <pubDate> Tue, 13 May 2008 04:09:00 CDT  </pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[  Sect Elder Blasts 'Terrorist' Raid ]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[An elder of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints condemned the raid against a sect compound in Texas last month as a &ldquo;terrorist act&rdquo; in a letter to President Bush, CNN reports. Members of the FLDS have complained of the treatment of the families whose children were seized in the &quot;intrusive invasion&quot; by &quot;a heavily armed militant force.&quot;]]></description>
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        <pubDate> Mon, 12 May 2008 15:06:10 CDT  </pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[ Texas Raid Rocks Other Polygamists]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[The raid on the Texas compound of a polygamist sect has similar communities worried, reports the New York Times. Groups of polygamists belonging to the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints live along the Utah-Arizona border and many fear that the crackdown on their Texas brethren means they could be next as the federal government leans on states to get tough on illegal practices.]]></description>
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        <pubDate> Thu, 08 May 2008 10:40:37 CDT  </pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[  Polygamy Hubby Tallies 21 Wives]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[A husband in the Texas polygamist ranch where children were seized to protect them from suspected child abuse has 36 kids and 21 wives&mdash;with the youngest 43 years his junior, reports CNN. The information on the 67-year-old member&mdash;whose youngest child is 6 months old&mdash;is included on a &quot;bishop's list&quot; of families kept by the sect. The &quot;bishop&quot; is believed to be leader Warren Jeffs, serving time as an accomplice to child rape.]]></description>
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        <pubDate> Tue, 06 May 2008 06:18:00 CDT  </pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[ Many Kids From Sect Had Broken Bones]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[Of 463 children seized from a Texas polygamist compound, 41 show evidence of broken bones at a young age, the Dallas Morning News reports. &quot;Several of these fractures have been found in very young children,&quot; said the head of Child Protective Services, which also said it's looking into possible sexual abuse of sect boys.]]></description>
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        <pubDate> Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:53:06 CDT  </pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[ Teen From Texas Sect Gives Birth]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[One of the teens taken from a polygamist sect in Texas gave birth to a boy today as state police stood guard outside her hospital room, the Houston Chronicle reports. State officials say the mother is younger than 18 and that she will be taken to a foster care facility with her newborn to await a custody hearing, the AP notes. A sect spokesman says the girl is 18.]]></description>
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        <pubDate> Tue, 29 Apr 2008 19:06:28 CDT  </pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[ Half of Sect's Teens Have Been Pregnant]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[Of 53 girls between the ages of 14 and 17 taken from a polygamist sect in Texas, 31 have had children or are pregnant, the Houston Chronicle reports. Officials announced that the last of the 463 minors taken from the El Dorado ranch had been bused to foster homes after an appellate court denied the mothers&rsquo; motion for emergency relief.]]></description>
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        <pubDate> Mon, 28 Apr 2008 18:20:32 CDT  </pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[ Eldorado Sect Has Branch in South Dakota]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[The polygamous sect currently under investigation in Eldorado, Texas, has a sister compound in Pringle, SD&mdash;and it's making locals queasy, USA Today reports. The Pringle compound was started by the same leader in 2003, and is valued over $4.5 million. &quot;They don't just open their doors,&quot; says the local sheriff, adding that there have been no abuse allegations. &quot;It's a locked-down operation.&quot;]]></description>
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        <pubDate> Mon, 28 Apr 2008 11:38:06 CDT  </pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[  Sect Style: Flamboyant Modesty]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[The women&rsquo;s clothes from the Texas polygamist compound call to mind both Little House on the Prairie and prison garb. Yet there&rsquo;s something elaborate, or even flamboyant, in the carefully crafted styles that set these women so distinctly at odds with modern culture, writes Robin Givhan in the Washington Post. In a sect that uses cell phones and sneakers, why not jeans and zippers?]]></description>
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        <pubDate> Sun, 27 Apr 2008 11:19:00 CDT  </pubDate>
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