Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints

Overview

The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FCJCLDS or just "FLDS Church") is a "breakaway sect" of (and no longer affiliated with) the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. They have member churches in a number of small towns in the US and Canada.

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FLDS Church members are known for having a high incidence of fumarase deficiency, a genetic disorder, due to intensive inbreeding.

2008-04-11 [L..T] Police list documents seized from polygamists «A raid was finally triggered April 3, after a family violence shelter received a hushed phone call from a terrified 16-year-old girl saying her 50-year-old husband had beaten and raped her. .. State troopers put into action the plan they had on the shelf to enter the compound, and 416 children, most of them girls, were swept into state custody on suspicions that they were being sexually and physically abused. .. Doran said it was not until after the raid began that he learned that the sect was, in fact, marrying off underage girls at the compound and had a bed in its soaring limestone temple where the girls were required to immediately consummate their marriages. Also, investigators said a number of teenage girls there are pregnant.»