I can't figure out how to post a video, but I found this on CNN.com and thought it was super interesting.
It's about the polygamist ranch in Texas. Apparently children were taken by US authorities from the ranch because few women that have escaped have spoken out about the ranch being unsafe.
Children as young as 8 and old (yet still young) as 16 are forced into marriages with older men (about 30-40 years old). It has also been documented that the men beat their wives, and have the children beat or assist in the beating of the wives.
The few people and organizations that are fighting the battle of child safety in the polygamist cult in Arizona and Utah have run up against polygamist leaders that continually pull the "freedom of religion" card.
...and somehow that still overrides the safety and well being of children and young men and woman in their teens.
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/crime/2008/04/14/cooper.kathleen.int.cnn
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