Saturday, April 26, 2008

How Disgusting!

Well disgusting is no word to describe this and I have wanted to write about this right from when I heard the news, but was loaded with so much work and then suddenly now I remembered about it. I know that the whole world has know about this by now and that it is old news, but still I had to mention it.

Children groomed for sex by polygamist sect:
More than 400 children were found in a Texas polygamist compound which was the site of pervasive sexual abuse. Here, girls were groomed to accept sex at puberty and boys were indoctrinated to perpetuate the cycle. Girls as young as 13 were “spiritually married” to men who claimed several wives, and were forced to have sex with their significantly older husbands “for purpose of having children”.
Children were deprived of food and locked in closets as punishment, and severe beatings were also reported on the sprawling YFZ (Yearn for Zion) Ranch outside of Eldorado, Texas owned by the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. A number of girls who were pregnant or had recently given birth were discovered on the ranch after a desperate call for help made by a 16-year-old girl.
In a series of whispered calls on a borrowed cell phone, the girl told a local family violence center that she was being held against her will on the compound and was told she would be "found and locked up" if she tried to leave. The girl said she began to be abused soon after she was left at the ranch by her parents about three years ago and at age 15 became the seventh wife of a 49-year-old man. She said she is pregnant again just eight months after giving birth to her first child by a man who would force himself on her sexually and beat her "whenever he got angry," the affidavit said.

Other women in the home would hold her baby while the man identified as Dale Barlow beat her. Barlow would choke her and hit her in the chest and she was once beaten so badly that she was taken to the hospital with several broken ribs. The girl said she had no contact with her parents but knew they were preparing to send her 15-year-old sister to the ranch. While she was anxious to escape, she was worried about what would happen to her if she left the confines of the ranch. The girl has yet to be identified among the 416 children and 139 adult women removed from the ranch in a raid which began Thursday.A number of the children interviewed in the course of the investigation were "unable or unwilling to provide the names of their biological parents or identified multiple mothers". A judge has temporarily placed all the children into state custody as a result of what investigators found when they entered the ranch in an attempt to find the girl.
The 1,700-acre (688-hectare) ranch was purchased in 2003 and built by Warren Jeffs, who considers himself the sect's prophet and was jailed for life for being an accomplice to rape. The mainstream Mormon Church - The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints - renounced polygamy more than a century ago as a price of Utah's admission to the United States. It now excommunicates members who engage in the practice and disavows any connection with the FLDS church.

Can we call this disgusting? This is worse than that. How can people stoop to such levels? Isn’t there a limit? Don’t their consciences bother them at all??Well they don’t have one right!!! One thing I really hate is draging God's name into such disgusting things and they have done all this using God's name and the use of a church etc. Worst part is that the parents gave their children to all this. How can they be so irresponsible that they did not even bother to ask about the whereabouts of their kids even once.


I have added some photos that were available on the net of some of the members of the church, a view of the church etc...

34 comments:

aneri_masi said...

Hey, thanks for visiting my blog.
And jeez, this is so disgusting. I haven't read the details of the story...simply because it is just unthinkable, and I would prefer to live in denial :( Why, oh why, do people do such things! And in such large numbers! What would make them do this is just beyond comprehension!
WHat do they even get out of it???

Kelvy said...

@aneri
:) ya thats wat i was saying too..so disgusting..i dint follow up with the rest of story for same reason

Meghna said...

I feel terrible after reading this! ANd to say...I too am only 13! Oh my God...I feel blesssed not to have gone through all this...:(

Kelvy said...

@gayatri

thats so true, i dont know how they even thought abt such things, nasty people

Kelvy said...

@meghna

ya we are all indeed blesses and should thank god for not being in such situations..this is lifes small blessings...

Kelvy said...

@xh

ya using god's name in such things is the bad part..but such young children destroyed.....

Keshi said...

yuk!

I feel like cutting the sexual organs of all those adults who do this kinda thing to innocent kids!

Keshi.

Kelvy said...

@keshi

ya thats wat has to be done...and truth is they mite get a few yrs imprisonment, but wat about the psycological problems of those kids...many of them can become future abusers and stuff....really pathetic

busy-writer said...

OMG! This is SICK!! How sickeningly horrible. :|

M said...

hey thanks for visiting my blog !
keep visiting :)
and my goodness what is this ????
sheesh !
horrible .. how do people pull God for things as horrendous as this !

Kelvy said...

@busy writer
hey thanks for stopping by.....
ya truly sick and disgusting./...so many young children involved na...

Kelvy said...

@meenu
its not just god's name used, so many young children destroyed psycologically and mentally and physicallyyy

chethan shenoy said...

I am just spell bound to read such inhumane stuff... Why do ppl want to use other ppl to live? That too children!
Couple of days back the news was about Suicides. Parents killing their kids and then killing themselves.(http://www.lbhat.com/?p=166)

Why kids? spare them ATLEAST!

Kelvy said...

@addict
thanks for stopping by.
its true that all this is totaly inhumane..this is worse than suicide as just imagine how these children will group up to be...the psycological problems etc...humm wat to do a crazy world out there now...

Kelvy said...

@pseudonym
thank u for stopping by..i agree with wat u said...no punishment is enough for them

Pointblank said...

Disgusting indeed! I just read bout the tortourous Olympics training given to kids in China. I was disturbed after reading bout it.. And now THIS...

On atotally different note, when u coming down to Cochin Kel??

Kelvy said...

@pointblank
ya even i had seen many visuals and heard so much about the tortourous Olympics training given to kids in China.....ya likewise this is just too utterly disgusting...wat to do all perverts....
in june neets

C. Marie Byars said...

These people, unfortunately, think they have to have lots of babies to "earn" their salvation from God. I trust totally in God's grace---He does it all to save me. But when people think they have to do something to make sure they're eternally saved, they can come up with all kinds of wierd, twisted and hurtful things to do that. Terrorists, for instance. . .

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Kelvy said...

@shades of gray

ya i had read about that too and its bloody disgusting and more news is coming out about the incident daily....

Kelvy said...

@marie

thats so true....i really dont understand y they use God'd name to do vulgar things..real perverts...wat to do, thats how the world seems to be now

Kelvy said...

@sarika
thanks ..hehe ok will check ur blog and write about it soon.

Kelvy said...

@sagarika
hey cannot get aaccess to ur blog :(

Vik Rajagopalan said...

Interesting and why I say that? Because there is nothing we can ever ever do. These things happen around us and we only end up losing our cool thinking why this happened and what would the kids be going through in first place. The victims will grow up and some will not even survive that growing phase, some will run away and become good. The ones left will practice this and inflict this pain on people, kids, innocent men, women around.

It,to me is an vicious circle, which you never know where it starts and how it ends. All you have to do is ensure your kids or kids that matter to you are in safe hands/places. So don't take the kids to the zoo too :-]

Kelvy said...

@gangsta
heheh...well ya we can think and worry, but i do feel that there are so many things that people can do..if we all think no, nothing can be done, then wat will the world do...

Cяystal said...

Hi!!
I'm back :D

I know yaa this stuff is so damn disgusting!!..actually far MORE than that..
And how can these trivials morons use "God's" name in all this!


A stirring post!

Do check out my blog soon!!

TC

Kelvy said...

@aayushi

gr8 to know that u r bac...
ya sure will check ur blog soonn..ya absolutely disgustings thing goin on in the world

Arunima said...

that is very sad. oh!

Kelvy said...

arunima

ya thats so truee

Aarti said...

Oh,god.. dont even know what to say... disgusted as you said is not even a word that does justice to what is going on..

My heart goes out to all these kids...

Kelvy said...

humm..ya...

Uma said...

this is worse than nazi concentration camps happening in a free democratic country...no one has done anything about it
how sick humans can get?

Kelvy said...

thats wat we woner...morals, humane feeling everything is goin down the drain...

Kelvy said...

thats wat we woner...morals, humane feeling everything is goin down the drain...