Two people have been arrested and 416 children were taken into temporary legal custody at the YFZ Ranch after the 16-year-old girl’s call last week, a police spokesman said.
A court affidavit prepared by the state’s Child Protective Services department said the girl first called a local family violence shelter on March 29 “expressing the need to leave her current living situation.” She told the shelter her parents brought her to the ranch a year ago and that she was “spiritually married to an adult male member of the church” — becoming the man’s seventh wife.
The compound is just a few miles from my house and in fact, the authorities are keeping all of the kids, along with 130 women about a block from where I work. I drove by there at lunch, very interesting, state troopers thick as thieves.
