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Warren Jeffs and the Colorado City Raise
In 2008, child protection services heard from a 16 year old mother pregnant with her second child. She was being abused and she wanted out. But the people of the earning for Zion made it impossible. While they waited though, they came across journals of teenage girls telling story after story of underage marriage, sex and pregnancy. They saw pregnant girls who were blatantly underage. With children in very clear and present danger, the investigation ramped up a notch. On April the 4th, the police and SWAT teams stormed Colorado City. A judge had ordered all of the young children to be taken away. 416 of them. All of the children were taken in a series of buses to compounds and disused