June 15, 2005

Lost Boys

It seems as every day, I learn that there are more ways to be cruel than I ever imagined.  Life is tough for boys these days all around and everywhere. 

Julian Borger in The Guardian

The lost boys, thrown out of US sect so that older men can marry more wives

Up to 1,000 teenage boys have been separated from their parents and thrown out of their communities by a polygamous sect to make more young women available for older men, Utah officials claim.

Many of these "Lost Boys", some as young as 13, have simply been dumped on the side of the road in Arizona and Utah, by the leaders of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (FLDS), and told they will never see their families again or go to heaven.

via Best of the Web, James Taranto

Posted by Jill Fallon at June 15, 2005 3:58 AM | Permalink