US: Police in polygamy raid defend delay in taking action

Police in Texas today defended their handling of a raid on the giant headquarters of a polygamist sect.

Fri, 11 Apr, 2008 - 11:45

Police in Texas today defended their handling of a raid on the giant headquarters of a polygamist sect.

Hundreds of children, mostly girls, were taken into state protection last week amid allegations of under-age sex and multi-marriages in the 1,700-acre compound which was established four years ago.

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Courts Heathrow Place: US Place: Texas Place: Hildale Place: Utah Place: Colorado City Place: Arizona Person: Sheriff Person: David Doran Person: Doran Person: Warren Jeffs Person: Sheriff Doran Person: Jeffs’Person: Attorney General Person: Gregg Abbott Person: Dale Barlow Organisation: Mormon Organisation: Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints

Some 475 people, most of them South Korean nationals, were detained at the site on Friday, immigration authorities said (Corey Bullard/US Immigration and Customs Enforcement via AP)

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