Yet another religious cult raided

[kandrathe]

If they want the children back let them prove their innocence (or, rather, disprove their guilt). Seriously, this is child abuse we're talking about.

Alleged. There may be families living there that don't adhere to the marrying at 15 thing.

But, in doing more research...

"The FLDS Church teaches the doctrine of plural marriage, which states that a man having multiple wives is ordained by God and is a requirement for a man to receive the highest form of salvation. It is generally believed in the church that a man should have a minimum of three wives to fulfill this requirement. Connected with this doctrine is the concept that wives are required to be subordinate to their husbands.

The church currently practices the law of placing, whereby a young woman of marriageable age is assigned a husband by revelation from God to the leader of the church, who is regarded as a prophet. The prophet elects to take and give wives to and from men according to their worthiness. Wives may be taken from one man and reassigned to men that are more worthy."

So, yes weird by our standards. It seems to me that things would be fine with the Eldorado FLDS if they would abide by Texas age of consent laws.