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StaffAP NewsApr 05, 2008 21:22 EST
Sect leaders at a polygamist compound in West Texas refused Saturday to let authorities search a temple for a teenage girl whose report of abuse led to the raid, and authorities said they were preparing “for the worst.”
If no agreement is reached with sect leaders, authorities will forcibly remove the sect’s followers “as peaceably as possible,” Allison Palmer, a prosecutor in Tom Green County, told the San Angelo Standard-Times.
Medical workers are being sent “in case this were to a go in a way that no one wants,” Palmer said. Law enforcers are “preparing for the worst,” she said.
“Within the religion that we have encountered, their place of worship is very special to them,” Palmer said. “It appears to be of great concern to them if a person from outside their congregation even attempts to step inside their place of worship.
“A search warrant authorized troopers to enter the retreat, run by the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. They are looking for evidence of a marriage between the girl and a 50-year-old man.
Court documents the girl had a baby eight months ago, when she was 15.
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