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A timeline of two towns on the Arizona-Utah border once controlled by a polygamist sect

The neighboring towns of Hildale, Utah, and Colorado City, Arizona, have transformed in the years since Warren Jeffs led a polygamous sect there

The Independent UK

Utah lawmaker creates bill to try and block people from crossing the border for underage marriages

Representative Melissa Garff Ballard hopes that the bill will crack down on crimes similar to those committed by convicted child sex offender Warren Jeffs

The Independent UK

She left a fundamentalist Mormon cult. Then her children went missing

NEWS: After escaping a fundamentalist polygamous group, Elizabeth Roundy fought to rebuild her life and protect her children. Now, they are missing — and she believes the FLDS is behind it. As more mothers come forward with similar stories, a chilling pattern is emerging, Andrea Cavallier writes

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‘They think that it’s their salvation’: FLDS cult-like religious group suspected in disappearance of Idaho teens

Their mother has a history with the notorious FLDS group.

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Mother of two missing teens thinks they were snatched to be sacrificed by religious followers linked to jailed polygamist Warren Jeffs

Elizabeth Roundy says her son, Allen Larand Fischer, 13, and her daughter, Rachelle Leray Fischer, 15, disappeared Sunday night

The Independent UK

Polygamist leader with 20 ‘wives’ faces sentencing for child sex crimes

Bateman traveled extensively between Arizona, Utah, Colorado and Nebraska and regularly coerced girls into his criminal sexual activity

The Independent UK

Three kids vanished in Utah. Two years later they were found in a desert town and two relatives were arrested

Their father is suspected of having “orchestrated the disappearance and subsequent hiding” of the kids — with the help of members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, police say

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Minnesota land linked to polygamous sect leader Warren Jeffs for sale

Land was owned by brother of convicted sex offender who was sentenced to life in prison in 2011 for sexually abusing underage girls

The Guardian - US

Northern Minnesota land tied to polygamy sect, Warren Jeffs is for sale

DULUTH, Minn. — Forty wooded acres of Grand Marais land owned by a business connected to a controversial religious faction is for sale.

Tribune News Service

Members of polygamous group to appear in court on child sex abuse charges

Members of a small polygamous group accused of child sex abuse of underage girls who the group’s leader claimed as brides are expected to appear in federal court on Friday

The Independent UK

Ex-members of extremist Mormon sect plead for help to find missing children

The leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Latter-Day Saints issued a ‘revelation’ that has parents worried

The Guardian - US

Psychedelic churches in US pushing boundaries of religion

Growing numbers of people are flocking to U.S. churches that center their practice around a bitter psychedelic tea known as ayahuasca

The Independent UK

Polygamous 'prophet' leader had child brides, documents say

The leader of a small polygamous group on the Arizona-Utah border had taken at least 20 wives, most of them minors, and punished followers who did not treat him as a prophet, new court documents show.

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FBI: Polygamous leader had 20 wives, many of them minors

The leader of a small polygamous group near the Arizona-Utah border had taken at least 20 wives and punished followers who didn't treat him as a prophet

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Sam Bateman: Who is the breakaway Mormon polygamist who married nine underage girls?

Mr Bateman filled a power vacuum in the secretive religious community, which allegedly led to the sex trafficking of minors and obstruction of justice charges

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Arizona man charged after girls found in enclosed trailer

An Arizona man is facing federal charges that he tampered with evidence after he was arrested on a highway with young girls in an enclosed trailer

The Independent UK

Arizona FLDS polygamous leader’s home raided by FBI, reports say

Federal agents were seen at a home residents told local news was owned by Samuel Bateman, 46, who was arrested two weeks ago on child abuse charges

Daily Mirror

Keep Sweet: Fans of chilling Netflix Mormon sex cult series should try this documentary

The true crime documentary 'Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey' has proved a surprising hit on Netflix, but many fans horrified by the actions of "prophet" Warren Jeffs have been left wanting more

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A primer on the abusive FLDS church

What you need to know about the radical denomination of Mormonism as seen in Netflix's "Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey"

The Independent UK

Where is FLDS leader Warren Jeffs now?

The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints is the subject of a new Netflix documentary

The Independent UK

Polygamy, underage ‘wives’, and women treated as ‘chattel’: Inside Warren Jeffs’s Fundamentalist Mormon sect

‘Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey’, a new Netflix documentary, delves into the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints as a structure of coercive control and systemized abuse. Clémence Michallon reports

Wales Online

Warren Jeffs and the horrific true story behind Netflix documentary Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey

The horrifying story exposing the crimes of leader Warren Jeffs has been exposed by director Rachel Dretzin

Chicago Sun-Times

‘Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey’: Engrossing series on Warren Jeffs cult plays out like a horror movie

Four-part Netflix documentary explains how FLDS leaders ran members’ lives, pushed polygamy and forced underage girls into marriage.

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