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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Andrea Cavallier

She left a fundamentalist Mormon cult. Then her children went missing

After escaping a fundamentalist polygamous group, Elizabeth Roundy wanted a new life for her children. Now they’re missing - (Jefferson County Idaho Sheriff's Office)

In the Western part of the country, a disturbing pattern is unfolding: children of mothers who fled a fundamentalist polygamous Mormon sect are vanishing — and their families fear it’s part of a radical religious agenda.

In the latest case, Elizabeth Roundy of Jefferson County, Idaho, says her two youngest children, 13-year-old Allen Larand Fischer and 15-year-old Rachelle Leray Fischer, disappeared last month while she was at Bible class.

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