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inanna

(3,547 posts) Wed Aug 31, 2016, 04:07 PM Aug 2016

Feds: Company tied to polygamous group used child labor

Source: Associated Press

August 31, 2016

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Federal labor lawyers have filed another child labor case against a Utah-based company tied to a polygamous group alleging underage laborers were put to work for long hours for little pay in dangerous conditions.

The U.S. Department of Labor said in court documents that Phaze Concrete used teenagers for work on new stores for Wal-Mart in Missouri, Scheels All Sports in Kansas and Hobby Lobby in Nebraska, among other jobs.

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Federal investigators said they believe Phaze pulled many teenage workers from the group's home base along the Utah-Arizona border over the decade.

Two teens who grew up in the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints said in court documents they were pulled out of school to go to work at ages 12 and 14.

Read more: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/feds-company-tied-polygamous-group-194106634.html

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Feds: Company tied to polygamous group used child labor (Original Post) inanna Aug 2016 OP

So they get a two-for, kickbacks for cheap labor, and the young maturing boys away from the girls snooper2 Aug 2016 #1

it's more than a two-for arithia Aug 2016 #3

Outstanding description of their game. Excellent portrayal. Thank you. n/t Judi Lynn Aug 2016 #5

Hobby Lobby(Not surprised) atreides1 Aug 2016 #2

they have to do something w all those spare boys. mopinko Aug 2016 #4

Why do we allow these cult compounds in the 21st century? lindysalsagal Aug 2016 #6

Thank you.......... mrmpa Aug 2016 #7

home school is quite the gimmick dembotoz Aug 2016 #8

snooper2

(30,151 posts)

1. So they get a two-for, kickbacks for cheap labor, and the young maturing boys away from the girls

Reply to inanna (Original post)

Wed Aug 31, 2016, 04:16 PM

Aug 2016

So the old creepy fundie asshole fucks can pull them into their brood...

arithia

(455 posts)

3. it's more than a two-for

Reply to snooper2 (Reply #1)

Wed Aug 31, 2016, 04:33 PM

Aug 2016

They breed the girls young and often, often against their will and to much older men. Groom them to accept the pedophilia they are subjected to. Deny them educations. Force the young mothers to collect welfare and food stamps to support the children they are forced to have. The girls/women are then forced to hand over any cash or foodstuffs purchased with their benefits to FLDS leadership.

The food isn't given back to members, with widespread reports of malnutrition and food scarcity.

They use the boys as slave labor. Deny them educations so they are unlikely to leave the community when grown. Any pay goes back to FLDS leadership.

These poor people aren't members of a church. They are livestock.

Judi Lynn

(160,527 posts)

5. Outstanding description of their game. Excellent portrayal. Thank you. n/t

Reply to arithia (Reply #3)

Wed Aug 31, 2016, 05:47 PM

Aug 2016

atreides1

(16,079 posts)

2. Hobby Lobby(Not surprised)

Reply to inanna (Original post)

Wed Aug 31, 2016, 04:24 PM

Aug 2016

I wonder how using unlawful child labor, is in keeping with their "sincere religious beliefs"???

mopinko

(70,103 posts)

4. they have to do something w all those spare boys.

Reply to inanna (Original post)

Wed Aug 31, 2016, 05:11 PM

Aug 2016

assholes. what a fucked up religion.

lindysalsagal

(20,684 posts)

6. Why do we allow these cult compounds in the 21st century?

Reply to inanna (Original post)

Wed Aug 31, 2016, 05:52 PM

Aug 2016

Can anyone tell me why???

mrmpa

(4,033 posts)

7. Thank you..........

Reply to lindysalsagal (Reply #6)

Wed Aug 31, 2016, 07:44 PM

Aug 2016

my question exactly. Isn't polygamy against the law? Isn't marrying females under the age of consent against the law? What the fuck is wrong with the criminal justice system?

dembotoz

(16,804 posts)

8. home school is quite the gimmick

Reply to inanna (Original post)

Wed Aug 31, 2016, 08:35 PM

Aug 2016

you can call anything you want as education

they are very proud of it

no regulations
no standards

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