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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

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Towns scarred by Warren Jeffs’ polygamous ’cult’ undergo dramatic transformation

The towns functioned for 90 years largely as a theocracy

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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

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16yo forced to marry Utah teen by a cult, but the ‘marriage’ didn’t last. But fate had other plans

Having lived under the thumb of the cult's leader, they had no choice as teenagers.

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Mormon leader Russell Nelson has died aged 101. What’s next for the church?

Russell Marion Nelson Sr, prophet and leader of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, has died aged 101.

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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

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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

‘Polyamory, cults and arms’: How a Colorado land dispute spiraled into wild misinformation

Reports linked a group who lay claim to a stretch of public land to the fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and its convicted sex offender leader Warren Jeffs. This was not the case, writes Mike Bedigan

The Independent UK

Former Cult Decides It Owns Colorado Public Land, Erects Barbed-wire Fencing

Members of the Free Land Holders Committee cult have taken up residence in 1,400 acres of Colorado public lands, erecting barbed-wire fencing which has roiled locals and recreaters, as well as law enforcement.

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The 10 Best Documentaries About Cults

From 'The Vow' to 'Love Has Won: The Cult of Mother God'

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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.

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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 Guardian - US

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

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Warren Jeffs’ nephew charged with kidnapping 10-year-old girl

Heber Jeffs arrested after he removed child from his Utah home allegedly on instructions from convicted child sex criminal

Daily Mirror

Man accused of having multiple wives after one contacted another on social media

The man has been accused of making false claims on marriage documents after he didn't declare he was already married when he remarried a second woman and later a third in Perth, Australia

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Girl whose dad married 12-year-old girls kept his 'family' of 132 women on leash

Sarah Thompson has spoken out against her dad after she grew up in Texas, US, under the rule of Warren Jeffs, leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ and the Latter-Day Saints

The Independent UK

Feds: Imprisoned polygamous leader helped plan kidnapping

Prosecutors allege that the leader of a small polygamous group on the Arizona-Utah border helped orchestrate the escape of eight girls he considered his wives from a group home where they were placed after authorities learned of what was happening

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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.

The Guardian - US

Arizona man accused of child abuse as leader of polygamous cult, FBI says

Self-styled prophet Samuel Bateman allegedly engaged in child sex trafficking and had at least 20 ‘wives’, most of them children

Los Angeles Times

The 10 best TV shows (and 3 best dance sequences) of 2022

This year was supposed to be the year that television nosedived into a creative slump. Worriers theorized that the darkest days of the pandemic had disrupted so many productions that there'd be nothing left worth watching by the time 2022 rolled around: Think of it as the entertainment equivalent of…

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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

The Independent UK

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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