Saints Under Siege: The Texas State Raid on the Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints

by James T. Richardson and Stuart A. Wright

Book Overview

In April 2008, state police and child protection authorities raided Yearning for Zion Ranch near Eldorado, Texas, a community of 800 members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ Latter Day Saints (FLDS), a polygamist branch of the Mormons. State officials claimed that the raid, which was triggered by anonymous phone calls from an underage girl to a domestic violence hotline, was based on evidence of widespread child sexual abuse. In a high-risk...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814795293
• ISBN13: 9780814795293
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 281 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"