When Texas Child Protective Sevices released statistics showing nearly 60% of the teen girls taken from FLDS (Fundementalist Latter Day Saints) polygamist sect's ranch were pregnant or had children, they seemed to prove what was alleged all along; the sect commonly pushed girls into marriage and sex.
But in the past week, the state has twice been forced to admit "girls" who gave birth while in state custody are actually adults. One was 22 and claims she showed state officials a Utah birth certificate shortly after she and more than 400 children were seized from the west Texas ranch in an April raid.
The state has in custody two dozen other young mothers and others whose ages are in dispute. If most of them also turn out to be adults. It would be a severe blow to the state's claim of widespread sexual abuse.
Well, it turns out the other 24 disputed minors are adults, the number of actual 14 -17- year-old girls with children could drop to as low as five or six...........read more
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I mean, he is a great personality anyway, but I just could not turn the show off after that point.