#8 Todays Dramatic News
April 13, 2008 eternity5
As I watched news this week a story about a polygamy ranch really caught my attention. This polygamy ranch in Eldorado, Texas, led by Warren Jeffs was being raided and searched. Authorities received a call from a 16-year-old girl. She claimed she was being abused and that other 14 and 15 year olds were being forced to marry older men. The church is being accused of pedophilia, torture, and child abuse.Carolyn Jessop a wife of an alleged leader of the Eldorado complex went on the news to tell all. She believed that the church is committing crimes and hiding behind a religion in order not to be touched by authorities. She stated “They have no concept of mainstream society, and their mothers were born into this and have no concept of mainstream culture. She went on sying that her husband Merril Jessop controlled his wives by abusing their children. Carolyn escaped from the compound with her eight children. State troopers are holding men until investigators finished executing a house to house search of the 1700 acre property. They removed 401 children and 133 woman, and were beginning to confiscate documents along with any other evidence.
As I have researched the story I also discovered that the women wore hand sewn dresses and were not allowed to cut their hair. Child Protective Services will be assigning an advocate and attorney to each child. It was stated that if the children ended up with the state permanently they would have difficulties adjusting to modern life. This is not the first time they’ve confronted leader Warren Jeffs. In September he was sentenced ten years for being an accomplice to raping a 14 year old girl. On the Web this raid was being compared to a similar incident in 1993 on the Branch Davidian compound in Waco.
We are impacted on the stories that are more dramatic. I especially get touched by the things that happen to children. I think that happens with most people. This particular story caught my attention because I thought about all those children being abused everyday while some of us don’t realize how l fortunate they are. Carolyn Jessop said that they even tried to control the infants. “The method he would use with infants was a form of water torture,” Jessop said of her former husband. “He would spank the baby until it was screaming out of control, and then he would hold the baby face up under a tap of running water so it couldn’t breathe.” I have a daughter and I can’t imagine what I would do if someone did that to her. It’s very hard to picture that image. Whenever it comes to death people get touched because a life is a very valuable thing. We remain in awe that somebody has the heart to torture and kill a human being. Since, the only things that come out on the news are things that are out of our norm it always leaves us amazed at the things that actually go on in the world. When you see that someones doing something and that’s not how you do it, we perceive it as weird. Such as different cultures and religions that each live differently.
Over my lifetime one story has impacted me the most, and that is the Andrea Yates story. In Houston, Texas on June 20,2001 she drowned her five children in the bathtub. She had been suffering from depression and was in and out of hospitals. Andrea only had one hour with them and that was more than enough time for her to take the lives of five beatiful children. When interviewed by police she claimed to kill them so they would’nt grow up to be sinners and be punished by God. She said she had been a bad mother to them and had no other choice.
In my eyes this story was unreal. I could not believe how some perceive things. I remember when I seen this on the news it made my eyes watery. I kept on imagining the seven year olds fear. She drowned the children as so, Luke, age 2; Paul, age 3; John, age 5; Mary, six months old; then Noah age 7. When she brought Noah in the bathroom Mary was still floating in the tub. Poor boy he knew what was about to happen. I know this impacted the nation because people hold up children on a pedastal then to see this woman killing them all. I think she really had to be out of her mind and sick to be able to go through with this. I pray for those children and hope that she realizes what shes actually done and lives in pain everyday.
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