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Over the past five years, a fundamentalist Mormon "prophet" has banished as many as 400 boys from his Arizona town. Now the teens, once forbidden to even watch a movie, are adrift in a world of drugs, girls and depression.
  • The U.S. Taliban

    The only people I feel truly sorry for are the children. They are born into this community with no hope of breaking the indoctrination they will be subjected to. The only way a society like this can maintain its order is by banishment and utter isolation. It amazes me that we have sects like this in our country while we wage wars to end this type of rule in other nations. People like Jeffries are just pedophiles who have a convenient way of indulging in their desires.

    A story like this just illustrates how much of a crap shoot life really is. You can be born a starving orphan in Estonia, a child forced to fight in wars in Africa or a socially retarted kid in a religous cult located right here in the U.S of A. If your reading this letter then consider yourself one of the truly lucky few.