Authorities removed more than 180 women and children from the Texas compound of a polygamist sect on Saturday evening after receiving reports of ”sexual and physical abuse”. The 10 000-member Mormon group is led by Warren Jeffs, who was convicted in Utah last year on two counts of accomplice to rape.
United States authorities removed 52 girls from a polygamous sect’s compound in western Texas on Friday, and questioned the remaining members of the breakaway Mormon church, officials said. Those removed were aged from six months to 17 years old, according to the Child Protective Services in Schleicher County.