Prosecutors: Men sexually abused girls they called brides
Source: Associated Press
Lindsay Whitehurst, Associated Press
Updated 5:16 pm, Friday, January 12, 2018
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) Two Utah men who believe in polygamy and doomsday had sexually abused young girls after conducting secret marriages they thought were ordained by God, prosecutors said Friday.
Each man believed they were married to two girls, ages 4 through 8, one of whom was related to them, prosecutor Kevin Daniels said. The pair formed a group called Knights of the Crystal Blade and created a remote, makeshift compound from shipping containers in the southern Utah desert.
John Coltharp, 33, was charged this week with child sodomy, about a month after police found four girls hidden in 50-gallon plastic water barrels and an abandoned trailer during a raid on the compound.
Similar charges are coming against Samuel Shaffer, 34, Daniels said. Authorities say they are still investigating the case and the full extent of the abuse.
Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/crime/article/Prosecutors-Men-sexually-abused-girls-they-12494574.php
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,735 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,610 posts)FakeNoose
(32,645 posts)Their practice of polygamy (multiple wives not multiple husbands) is not taught anywhere in the Bible. It was the personal belief of their founder, not backed up by any Christian teaching. The Mormon "religion" has supposedly banned polygamy now since the mid-20th century, but apparently some Mormons are still doing it even though it's against the law. These guys should be locked up, it's not a religious practice or belief.
Just sayin'
PassingFair
(22,434 posts)King Solomon had 800 of them.
FakeNoose
(32,645 posts)I was referring to the modern Christian religions, however you are correct.
Sorry I wasn't more careful in making my remark.
Plucketeer
(12,882 posts)They're parasitic entities (Prayerasitic?) that live off of the common sense they extract from their human hosts. I sure wish that "rapture" would hurry up and take all those "blessed" souls to that big recuperation lodge in the sky!
Marie Marie
(9,999 posts)shenmue
(38,506 posts)pandr32
(11,588 posts)And throw away the key. Those poor little kids
RandomAccess
(5,210 posts)The mind reels ... and the stomach lurches
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)icymist
(15,888 posts)And that not allowing them to say that is religious persecution?
Oh yeah, almost forgot to add
DoubleAgentOrange
(81 posts)Journeyman
(15,036 posts)Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)Beaverhausen
(24,470 posts)Out in the open with no consequences. Girls are generally at least in their teens though.
How this is allowed to continue here just blows my mind.
keithbvadu2
(36,829 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,829 posts)Maybe they can get Roy Moore to defend them.