Sect accused of marrying pubescent girls - Yahoo! News

Sect accused of marrying pubescent girls - Yahoo! News: "An FLDS member now living in the Texas Panhandle, Samuel Fischer, objected to the raid. 'It's religious persecution,' said Fischer, who moved to a ranch near Lockney with his two wives and 12 of his children from Hildale, Utah, last year. The Texas investigation is the state's first of FLDS members, but prosecutors in Utah and Arizona have pursued several church members in recent years, including sect leader Warren Jeffs, who is serving two consecutive sentences of five years to life for being an accomplice to the rape of a 14-year-old wed to her cousin in Utah. He awaits trial on other charges in Arizona." Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints