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The FLDS Has Kicked Out Over 2000 Boys
Many of these boys come from good families. But their fathers know that if they dont put their child out on the street, his entire family will be put out on the street, said Shannon Price, director of the Diversity Foundation in Salt Lake City that helps victims abused by the polygamy faith.
The boys are ill-equipped to deal with their new world.
You might as well put them on another planet. No training. No food. No idea on how to get help or what to do, Jensen said. Some are so heartsick they cant do anything.
There may be as many as 2,000 of the young castaways, known as the Lost Boys by the people who try to help integrate them into a world they have been taught to distrust.
Sam Brower, a private investigator in Cedar City, Utah, who has tracked the plight of Lost Boys, said many have just been discarded on the side of the highway. Many have turned to drugs and alcohol and end up on the streets of Vegas.
They know absolutely nothing about the outside world. They have little education. Its very rough for them.
Jensen said the boys in the FLDS, after graduating from home school, win favors from the priesthood by going on two-year work missions away from their families. They work for free for the church but are still vulnerable to expulsion if they slip up.
http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21233/lost-boys-flds
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Many of these boys come from good families. But their fathers know that if they dont put their child out on the street, his entire family will be put out on the street, said Shannon Price, director of the Diversity Foundation in Salt Lake City that helps victims abused by the polygamy faith.
The boys are ill-equipped to deal with their new world.
You might as well put them on another planet. No training. No food. No idea on how to get help or what to do, Jensen said. Some are so heartsick they cant do anything.
There may be as many as 2,000 of the young castaways, known as the Lost Boys by the people who try to help integrate them into a world they have been taught to distrust.
Sam Brower, a private investigator in Cedar City, Utah, who has tracked the plight of Lost Boys, said many have just been discarded on the side of the highway. Many have turned to drugs and alcohol and end up on the streets of Vegas.
They know absolutely nothing about the outside world. They have little education. Its very rough for them.
Jensen said the boys in the FLDS, after graduating from home school, win favors from the priesthood by going on two-year work missions away from their families. They work for free for the church but are still vulnerable to expulsion if they slip up.
http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21233/lost-boys-flds
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