Mary	Re: Renegade Mormons - Abuse of Children- Broken Bones -Many Girls Pregnant
	How long will religions claiming to worship God - tolerate the abuse of children , and try to hide it ? Catholics, Jehovah's Witnesses, Mormons - My wife and I discussed it and I'm starting to feel that there is something about the stunted views of religions about sex in general that creates these monsters of sexual child abuse ! Do we not just hear about the non-religious child abusers ? Or do all religions have a lock on creating environments which allow pervism and pedophilia to proliferate? For all these religions that allow pedophilia to flourish and go undetected for years, you generally need the following: extreme male authority, "submissive" (or brow-beaten) women, lack of education, lack of contact with the real world, no questioning or breaking of the rules or doctrines on pain of the Sword of Damocles striking you down. In such situations, abuse can run rampant, simply because there's no one watching the watchers and everyone has been programmed into believing that this sort of behaviour is "normal". Any nutcase can start their own religion and make up rules to suit their own purpose and that is exactly what happened here. In the news today - new allegations that , " at least 41 children taken from the polygamist compound in West Texas had suffered bone fractures, some of them multiple times , suggesting a pattern of child abuse. " The investigators are being hampered by a lack of cooperation from both children and adults at the compound. Parents are coaching children not to answer questions and children......... Yep. They probably think of it as "theocratic strategy". On top of this, the state has said that nearly , " 60 percent of the 14 to 17 year old girls are pregnant or already have children. Many refused to take pregnancy tests. " Church officials have denied any children were abused and say the state's actions are a form of religious persecution. Ah yes, good old "religious persecution".....where would abusive cults be without it?   This is no different than when the WTS was exposed on Dateline and 20/20 for allowing pedophilia to run rampant in the religion.......rather than admit what they did, they tried the old bait and switch whereby they claim they're being persecuted by Satan de Debbil for being the true religion. My understanding is that 40 of the women have accepted the government's offer of being taken to shelters. I hope that with therapy and education, these women can eventually see that they belonged to a very destructive cult. As for the perpetrators who refuse counselling, they should all be put into prison for what they've done. The entire situation is sickening and the government should have done something about it long before now. I have a bad feeling that what we're hearing now is just the tip of the iceburg. I expect to see several interviews on 20/20 or Dateline down the road where many victims come forth with horror stories to tell.
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