TEXAS – Its members advocate polygamy, the police they were abused or were about to be… Fifty-two girls and girls were evacuated Friday from a ranch in Texas (south ) belonging to a dissident Mormon sect advocating polygamy, officials said social services. Saturday afternoon, police continued to search the ranch in search of suspects and evidence. .

According to the American press, the police intervened in the ranch because it seeks a 50 year old man, Dale Barlow, who is suspected of having married and had a child with a girl 16. There would be no resistance or violence by members of the sect.

Aged six months to 17 years, children in care lived in a ranch in Eldorado, a property belonging to the Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints (FLDS in English, Mormon fundamentalist movement) depending on the services of child protection Schleicher County (West Texas).

Social workers spent Thursday night and all day Friday interviewing residents of the ranch and came to the conclusion that 18 teenage girls and had been abused or threatened to suffer in the very near future.

Little girls and teenage girls were transferred to a secret location in San Angelo, north of the ranch.

The Church of Latter Day Saints, the mainstream Mormon church, renounced polygamy there is more than a century in exchange for the admission of Utah in Federation of American States. It excommunicates members who practice and has disavowed the FLDS, based in Hildale and Colorado City, twin cities on the border between Utah and Arizona.

The house where the 52 were withdrawn children had been acquired by the sect in 2003 and was under surveillance by the authorities. In addition to Utah and Arizona, FLDS members in other states like Nevada, Texas, Colorado, South Dakota and Canada.

In 2001 at the age of 14 with an older man. ;.

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