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Texas grand jury indicts 6 in polygamist ranch case
(Agencies)
Updated: 2008-07-23 16:29 The last unnamed defendant was charged with three counts of failure to report child abuse. Abbott's office did not release any more information on the case and said the indictments were part of an ongoing criminal investigation. The case has gripped Americans with lurid allegations of adolescent brides, teenage pregnancies and a secretive sect on a remote ranch. Plural marriage is illegal in the United States but FLDS men typically marry one legal wife while the others become their "spiritual wives." That may be a way around the law but the sect stands accused of marrying underage brides, which is not legal. The mainstream Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, as the Mormon faith is officially known, renounced polygamy more than a century ago and tries to distance itself from breakaway factions that still practice it. |
