Businessman pleads guilty in polygamous sect child trafficking scheme

At least 20 girls and women were victimized through forced marriage and sexual abuse; eight children escaped from state foster care and were recovered in Washington state.

In the borderlands where Arizona and Utah meet, a federal courtroom became the site of a long-overdue reckoning when a businessman admitted his role in moving children across state lines for sexual abuse — the first conviction in a case that exposes how religious authority can be weaponized to enslave the vulnerable. Behind the plea stands a self-proclaimed prophet who built a network of coercion and control spanning four states, taking more than twenty wives, half of them minors, and cloaking systematic abuse in the language of divine mandate. The case reminds us that institutions of faith, w

Businessman pleads guilty in polygamous sect child trafficking scheme

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