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The Guardian - US
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MacKenzie Ryan

Ex-members of extremist Mormon sect plead for help to find missing children

Young girls dressed in traditional clothing made in pastel colors walk into a store in Colorado City, Arizona on Aug. 29, 2006. Warren Jeffs, spiritual leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints was arrested in Nevada sending the national media to the small community famous for the practice of polygamy. (AP Photo/Laura Rauch)
Concerned parents are seeking their missing children who they suspect are being kept in FLDS compounds. Photograph: Laura Rauch/AP

“This is child trafficking. This is kidnapping,” said Lorraine Jessop.

Several former members of the Fundamentalist Church of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS), the polygamist sect led by Warren Jeffs, are calling on law enforcement officers and prosecutors to help them find their missing children, some of whom have not been seen for years.

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