Utah/North Dakota FLDS missing children connection

CEDAR CREEK, U.T. (KFYR) – Earlier this month, reporter Erika Craven advised us about members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints settling in rural areas of North Dakota.

On Monday, a number of former FLDS members gathered in Utah, begging for assist discovering their lacking kids. They are saying their kids had been assisted in “working away” or taken again into the spiritual group that’s led by convicted felon Warren Jeffs. However what are the connections to the lacking Utah children right here in North Dakota?

Heber Jeffs was arrested in Minot earlier this yr on kidnapping expenses stemming from the disappearance of his 10-year-old niece. Jeffs has been extradited again to Utah, however that may not be the tip of the kidnapping story.

Holding out for hope. That’s what a number of former FLDS mother and father did on Monday in Cedar Creek, Utah. They’re pleading to get their lacking kids again.

“When will this be handled as what it’s? That is youngster trafficking, that is kidnapping, this isn’t only a home dispute or kids with a want to run away,” stated mom Lorraine Jessop.

A former FDLS member who now lives in North Dakota says he has a sense a few of these children may very well be in North Dakota.

“I’ve a hunch that there’s positively good odds that they may very well be right here,” stated a former FLDS member.

The group in Utah says it is aware of of 19 kids which have gone lacking. They are saying Warren Jeffs’ newest prophecy is asking members to collect kids.

“I’ve heard that North Dakota is the brand new gathering place for Zion,” stated a former FLDS member.

The previous FLDS members in Utah say their kids are leaving or are being kidnapped in the midst of the night time. The moms say their children are being advised the place to go and even given survival instruments and telephones.

“It’s positively kidnapping, however the factor is, it’s arduous to know if the children which might be youngsters wished to stick with the church or not,” stated a former FLDS member.

An lawyer for the Utah group says typically custody conditions happen when one dad or mum leaves the church and the opposite stays. Police say runaway circumstances are arduous to trace.

“I’ve tried to clarify to them that this isn’t simply her working away. They’re hiding her, she was advised what to do, the place to go,” stated mom Elizabeth Roundy.

The previous FLDS member Your Information Chief spoke with left the church in 2017 and is now working in North Dakota, however has little contact with present members of the spiritual group.

Heber Jeffs is at the moment being held in Piute County, Utah awaiting trial.

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