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The Cult Dossier · No. 179 · Second Generation / Born In
Child Marriage as Doctrine
The FLDS second generation; the YFZ Ranch raid
1998 – 2011 · Utah, Arizona and Eldorado, Texas, USA
XVIII. THE SECOND GENERATION — THE ONES WHO NEVER CHOSE
Fundamentalist Mormon. THE MARRIAGES WERE NOT A DEVIATION FROM THE TEACHING; THEY WERE AN APPLICATION OF IT. See 079.
### Who led it
### What it worshipped and taught
### Who was in it
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### The dead
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### Its timeline
- APRIL 2001 ELISSA WALL, aged fourteen, is married to her first cousin. Warren Jeffs is then counsellor to his father, the prophet.
- 2002 RULON JEFFS DIES AND WARREN SUCCEEDS HIM, and with the office takes the power to assign marriages across the church.
- 3 APRIL 2008 TEXAS AUTHORITIES RAID THE YEARNING FOR ZION RANCH AT ELDORADO AND REMOVE 439 CHILDREN. The raid was prompted by a hotline call from a girl who was never found and is believed to have been a hoax. It becomes the largest child-custody case in American history.
- 29 MAY 2008 THE SUPREME COURT OF TEXAS HOLDS THAT THE REMOVAL WAS NOT WARRANTED ON THE RECORD BEFORE IT, upholding the appeal court, and the children are returned to their parents over the following weeks.
- JUNE 2008 The last of the children are back. THE STATE HAD TAKEN 439 CHILDREN AND HAD TO GIVE THEM ALL BACK.
- DECEMBER 2008 THE STATE’S OWN FINAL REPORT confirms TWELVE GIRLS as victims of sexual abuse and neglect, married at ages from twelve to fifteen. The harm was real; the mass removal was still not the way to prove it.
- 4–9 AUGUST 2011 JEFFS IS CONVICTED IN TEXAS ON 4 AUGUST AND SENTENCED ON 9 AUGUST TO LIFE PLUS TWENTY YEARS — life for the aggravated sexual assault of a TWELVE-YEAR-OLD GIRL and twenty years for the sexual assault of a FIFTEEN-YEAR-OLD. The jury took about thirty minutes to decide the sentence. By then SEVEN OTHER FLDS MEN had been convicted in Texas of sexually assaulting children, with sentences from six to seventy-five years. THE CASE WAS BUILT ON EVIDENCE ABOUT NAMED CHILDREN, INCLUDING HIS OWN RECORDINGS — NOT ON THE MASS REMOVAL.
- 2011 onward He continues to direct the group from prison. THE SECOND GENERATION INSIDE IT IS STILL BEING RAISED THERE.
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