These freaks....yes, I said freaks....are hiding behind the facade of
religion to perpetuate a lifestyle of polygamy involving underage girls, which is by definition, child molestation. The mothers are in it up to their necks, even if they do look like Laura Ingalls Wilder and feign innocence and ignorance while staring wide-eyed at the cameras. They are just very good at it, having had decades of intense practice......or what some would call brainwashing.
Some of these kids don't even know when they were born or who their actual biological parents are. All the better to keep "age of consent" fuzzy. They give different answers every time they are asked. They have been trained to lie and never give a straight answer. That tells me their "families" know they have something to hide and have made certain their children will be adept at the skill of hiding information, aka lying. There is NOTHING about this that passes the sniff test......no one single thing.
The mothers wail about how much the children are loved. My concern is that they are "loved" too soon by men that are old enough to be their fathers and grandfathers and are told this is God's will. How many times do we have to see this repeated by this sect/cult before we just wise up to the fact that this is their M.O.? It is what they do. It is who they are. Their mothers are as guilty as the men who molest them, because they allow it to happen. This is their chance to break ranks. If they do not take it, they deserve no mercy.
In this country, the right to religious freedom stops when it infringes on the rights of others, especially the rights of a vulnerable class such as children who are in need of the protection of society. Our duty as a society to protect these children from these molesters and the ones who brainwash them to believe it is normal (even if that includes their mothers) trumps their religious freedom. Our culture says that having sex with children and impregnating them is forbidden, not something to be glorified in the name of religion. Our law trumps their religion. Simple as.
I see right through the hand-wringing of these "mothers." They have zero protective instinct. They have already demonstrated a willingness to hand over their lambs to the slaughter. But they do put on a convincing show. Practice makes perfect. And this cult has been at it for decades. They are slick, slippery, well-financed and lawyered up. But they are still sickos in sheep's clothing.
When a father abuses/molests one of his children, if the mother refuses to keep him away from the other children, then ALL the children are kept from both of the parents. The father has not abused/molested all of them and he may never do so. Is the mother being punished for what might never even happen? No, the children are being kept from a mother who demonstrates an unwillingness to protect her children in the face of a pattern. Here, their very religion demonstrates a pattern of encouraging young girls to "spiritually marry"

older men and have their children, despite their denials to the contrary. The mothers have not put a stop to it (which might even include leaving the cult) and by failing to take such action, have shown an unwillingness to protect their daughters from sexual abuse. The state does not have to wait until each and every child is molested before they act. They don't even have to prove molestation before they remove the children. They just have to have enough cause to
suspect abuse. That's enough to warrant removal and start the process. What the state
looks for now is a mother who is proactive at doing what it takes to get her kids back. What they are
seeing are mothers who are the dead opposite. That
usually spells, "We have something to hide and /or are guilty as sin."
If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, yada, yada, and has 5 underage pregnant duckling wives......it needs to be in prison.