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Willie Jessop addressed a letter to the executive branch accusing the agencies who conducted the raid on the Yearning for Zion ranch of exceeding boundaries

Members of the FLDS church who choose to leave the group face many challenges because of poor schooling and their religious upbringing.

The Child Protection Project founded by Linda Walker aims to end instutionalized child abuse. Flora Jessop, who works with former FLDS members, is the executive director.

The reasons for taking these copies may have been valid, but why have the texts not been replaced with clean copies?

The polygamist group led by Warren Jeffs may have cast out teenage boys to make more women available for marriages to older men.

The people in charge of the YFZ Ranch have tried to show concern for the boys and girls in custody by releasing schedules for Texas authorities.

Raymond Jessop, 38, a member of the FLDS church was convicted of sexually assaulting his 16-year-old ninth wife despite the fact that she refused to testify against him.

Had a Colorado woman not made an anonymous tip, the abuse of women and children at the YFZ ranch might never have been found.

On September 24, 2009, the appointment of a special prosecutor to prosecute two men on one count each of practicing polygamy was quashed by the B.C. Supreme Court.

Polygamy may still be part of Mormon doctrine, but the physical practice was abandoned with Wilford Woodfruff's Official Declaration of 1890.

Stolen Innocence by Elissa Wall with Lisa Pulitzer describes the life of Elissa Wall as a child member of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

B.C.'s Attorney General, Mike de Jong, is referring two questions to the court on Canada's polygamy law, hoping that the law will stand up and end years of uncertainty

Krakauer's book is engaging and chronicles the mysterious, fascinating history of Mormonism, Mormon Fundamentalism and their intertwined violent past.

What is the difference between an alternative religion or path and one that is not alternative?

Why is it that polygamists, such as the followers of Warren Jeffs stick to their way so staunchly, and refuse to change, even when threatened with arrest by the FBI?

Mormons are only allowed one wife at a time in this life, but the doctrine still says that polygamy will be practiced in the celestial kingdom.

Oprah Winfrey expands her media empire by developing the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN) in partnership with Discovery Communications. The new network will launch in 2010.