Tag: FLDS
Lawsuit Accuses FLDS Church of Systemic Sex Abuse
A new lawsuit accuses the Fundamentalist LDS Church prophet Warren Jeffs and other leaders of "ritualistic sex abuse" involving girls as young as 8 years old.
FLDS Polygamists Escape Food Stamp Fraud Charges
Lawyers are working out a settlement with leaders of the Fundamentalist LDS Church. They are accused of welfare fraud for using more than $12 million in food stamps to fund Warren Jeffs' polygamist cult on the Utah-Arizona border.
Feds Wants FLDS Police Force Disbanded
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) will ask a federal judge this week to break up a law enforcement agency overseeing two cities on the Arizona-Utah border due to its “lengthy entanglement” with the Fundamentalist Church of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS).
FLDS Sued for of Wrongful Arrest, Discrimination Against Non-Members
Two residents of the community of Short Creek, Arizona, who were arrested last year for trespassing have filed a lawsuit (PDF) alleging that they were discriminated against because they are not members of the city’s dominant polygamous Fundamentalist Church of...
FLDS Polygamist Leader Lyle Jeffs On the Run
To no one's surprise, Lyle Jeffs absconded the law when set free amid charges of ripping off Utah's food stamp program for at least $12 million to fund his cult of brotherly love and preteen brides.