Just saw this too. Comments talked about Colorado City, the one founded by FDLS' Warren Jeffs -- but I found a city founded by a group that splintered off from Jeffs' group in the 1980s: Centennial City, Arizona.
The Centennial Park group was profiled on the ABC television program Primetime in a story entitled "The Outsiders", and also on The Oprah Winfrey Network's Our America with Lisa Ling.
FLDS, the cult that is an LDS offshoot, glorifies the idea that a man in good standing should have multiple wives, lots of kids, and therefore the ability to establish his own Kingdom in Heaven. Teens kicked out of the cult, as they're seen as unwanted competition, have regularly reported sexual abuse and rape starts about the age of 4 or 5 years by the cult's leaders. Anywhere you have all of the power in the hands of a very few you will see rampant abuse.
CDAN Blind implied FLDS was getting large financial donations for tolerating the "retreat" near to their city.
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chabon ago
Just saw this too. Comments talked about Colorado City, the one founded by FDLS' Warren Jeffs -- but I found a city founded by a group that splintered off from Jeffs' group in the 1980s: Centennial City, Arizona.
Apparently Lisa Ling did a documentary on the city for Oprah's channel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centennial_Park_group:
Here's the wiki on the City itself, citing a median age of 15!: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centennial_Park,_Arizona
Back to digging... Here's a creepy photo page from their blog: http://centennialparkaz.com/people/
O, yeah, and there's this: The initials of the city are CP.
(Edited to clarify Warren Jeffs' as founder of Colorado City -- and add note about CP)
carmencita ago
The thing that Stuck Out for me was A MEDIAN AGE OF 15. This should be a Huge Message.
AgainstPedos ago
FLDS, the cult that is an LDS offshoot, glorifies the idea that a man in good standing should have multiple wives, lots of kids, and therefore the ability to establish his own Kingdom in Heaven. Teens kicked out of the cult, as they're seen as unwanted competition, have regularly reported sexual abuse and rape starts about the age of 4 or 5 years by the cult's leaders. Anywhere you have all of the power in the hands of a very few you will see rampant abuse.
CDAN Blind implied FLDS was getting large financial donations for tolerating the "retreat" near to their city.