Former FLDS member gets favorable 10th Circuit Court ruling - Salt Lake Tribune

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Posted: 1:05 PM- Denver -- Go to the audiotape. A federal entreaties tribunal revived a part of a lawsuit that claims a adult male was not rehired at a cabinet company because he discontinue a southern Beehive State polygamous sect. Some grounds is on tape. Shem Hans Fischer sued Forestwood Inc. of Hildale, Utah, and the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Of Nazareth Jesus of Latter Day Saints and its leaders. He worked at Forestwood from 1987 until 2000, the twelvemonth he left the FLDS church. His father was Forestwood's president and a half-brother was manager. Both were FLDS members, as were all the employees. Hans Fischer said his employment ended hebdomads after he protested the fire of another worker who had left the church. When he tried to be rehired, Hans Fischer claims his application was rejected because he was a non-member. "Drop this lawsuit and allow us acquire back on alkali and we could travel forward again," Fischer's father, Erwin Fischer, now deceased, told his boy during a taped conversation. "If you're suing and fighting Uncle Rulon and wanting to work for his company at the same time, this won't work," he said, referring to Rulon Jeffs, who was caput of the Christian church at the time. A federal justice in Beehive State barred the taped conversations from evidence, calling them hearsay. But the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Mile-High City this Advertisement

Arizona teen alleges abuse in FLDS household

From Gary Barbara Tuchman CNN

Colorado CITY, Grand Canyon State (CNN) -- A 16-year-old girl in Grand Canyon State have alleged sexual maltreatment in a Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Of Nazareth Jesus of Latter-Day Saints community, beginnings in Grand Canyon State told CNN Friday.

Warren Jeffs is the captive leader of FLDS groupings in Arizona, Utah, Lone-Star State and elsewhere.

Government are investigating phone phone names made by a adolescent miss alleging maltreatment in her place by a male relative, according to the sources, who said the names were similar to those made last hebdomad to Lone-Star State government from the polygamist sect's spread in Eldorado, Texas.

The Lone-Star State calls prompted a law enforcement foray in which more than than 400 children were taken into state custody.

The beginnings told CNN the Grand Canyon State calls came from a adolescent in an FLDS household.

Church members openly pattern polygyny in Centennial State City and in Hildale, Beehive State -- two towns straddling the Arizona-Utah state line. Don't Miss

Robert Penn Warren Jeffs, the 52-year-old leader and "prophet" of the 10,000-member sect, was convicted in Beehive State last twelvemonth on two counts of being an confederate to rape, complaints related to a matrimony he performed in 2001. He confronts trial in Grand Canyon State on eight complaints of sexual behavior with a minor, incest and conspiracy.

Critics of the religious sect state it coerces misses as immature as 13 into arranged marriages.