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This is probably the same Mormon group that Warren Jeff's was from. Its the same area. About 15? Years ago now. They never dismantled the network of people, they just arrested the one guy. I'm sure its touchy because of religious freedoms but also its like a major tenant of the FLDS religion. One google search later https://www.biography.com/crime/a70909349/warren-jeffs-now-life-in-prison
There's a decently done but horrific doc on Netflix about this. The cops in that town are definitely in on something, if not just trying to protect Mormonism in general. A single woman went and infiltrated and collected all the evidence and the cops didn't give a damn. She eventually got the feds involved and that was slow, but the cops clearly were dragging their feet.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trust_Me:_The_False_Prophet
Go watch through a decent recap of the Reckless Ben - Lego - Bricks N Minifigs situation.
Mormon cops are there also shown as hilariously, wildly, nakedly corrupt, just acting as a gang.
Yep, I was gonna say... this FLDS, or an offshoot?
Great work Mormons, you continue to generate terrorist pedophile sex cults, even into the modern era, truly an extremely legitimate cultural lineage and religious tradition.
Ugh, that's one thing I hate about religious "freedom" in this country - when something is wrapped up in religious garb, especially if its some xtian denomination (and no, I'm not playing that "no true Christian" game with LDS or its fundie groups - the full name of LDS is "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints" so getting into a debate over it being "real" Christianity is just not really worth it) - it often takes a much higher bar to get it stopped.
It was far down the article but yes, they describe it as an offshoot of the FLDS:
And indeed there is the link to Warren Jeffs:
The AP claims that things were actually done to dismantle the network:
... but I have no way of knowing it that was enough or not, don't want to be too optimistic.
I was under the impression there are many fundamentalist LDS groups and not just one?
There are but this is the one that took the name if memory serves right, this is one of those things where the Mormons fractured super hard at several points in their history so there are lots of offshoots.
Ah, okay. I read Under the Banner of Heaven long ago and could not really remember.
I don't really know either, I was just going by the vibes of the AP text and conversation in the comments here.
When I'm trying to check it does look like from this Wikipedia article that "the FLDS" seems to refer to one specific organisation
Edit on the other hand this Wikipedia article has an entire list: Founders of mutually rival Mormon fundamentalist denominations include Lorin C. Woolley, John Y. Barlow, Joseph W. Musser, Leroy S. Johnson, Rulon C. Allred, Elden Kingston, and Joel LeBaron. The largest Mormon fundamentalist groups are the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS Church) and the Apostolic United Brethren (AUB).
I think I read Banner of Heaven shortly before I started watching Big Love and get some aspects muddled up, LOL.
Big Love is of course fictional, but I would be very surprised if the writers were not inspired by that book...