Investigation: Child Brides and Intimidation In Mormon Community

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Mormon fundamentalist leader Warren Jeffs is in jail for marrying young girls. However, a DOJ investigation has revealed much deeper corruption in his community. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian hosts of The Young Turks discuss.

“Former FLDS leader Warren Jeffs is in jail for taking two young girls as spiritual brides—and the sordid practice has continued after his arrest, according to local police.

When the Water Canyon School reopened in 2014, it was the first time in 13 years that students in Hildale, Utah, could attend a public school. The closure hadn’t been for lack of children in the town, though.

Hildale is one-half of a religious community once known as Short Creek, which now numbers around 7,500 and spans the Utah-Arizona border. It’s the nerve center of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (FLDS), a breakaway Mormon sect whose polygamous, patriarchal practices have often landed it in hot water with the law.”