Sunday, April 13, 2008

Zion raid: The ranch has not yet revealed all its secrets

It began with a panicked phone call from a 16-year-old girl, speaking from deep inside one of America's weirdest and most secretive religious compounds. She was, she said, a 16-year-old who had been forced into marriage a year ago with a 49-year-old man – a member of a fundamentalist Mormon sect practising an extreme form of plural marriage – who beat her, held her against her will and had now impregnated her with her second child.

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