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ELDORADO, Texas — It was a year ago that the outside world got its first glimpse beyond the battered green gate of the YFZ Ranch. And the view was mesmerizing: Women in pioneer-style dresses ...
The girls lived at the YFZ Ranch in Eldorado, which is owned by the Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints led by Warren Jeffs, an avowed polygamist who is now serving time in jail. The girls are ...
A Netflix documentary has people reeling on social media and feeling like it could well be the real-life version of The Handmaid's Tale. Keep Sweet: Prey and Obey is a true crime documentary about the ...
Since some families believe that the communal life on the YFZ Ranch is frowned upon by CPS, they're staying away until CPS scatters. Really, who could blame 'em? But without communal life ...
Eleven of 12 suspects from the 2008 raid on the Yearning for Zion (YFZ) Ranch have been tried and convicted on charges of child sexual assault, bigamy, or performing an unlawful marriage.
Jeffs named the compound the YFZ Ranch (or "Yearning for Zion" Ranch). "People were slowly disappearing [from Short Creek] at that time," said Charlene Jeffs, a former FLDS member who was then ...
The temple on the former YFZ Ranch Tuesday, March 20, 2018, outside of Eldorado. The YFZ Ranch was a polygamist FLDS ranch under the leadership of Warren Jeffs. The ranch is owned by the state.
In Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey, an attorney claimed they found evidence locked behind a vault at the Yearning For Zion (YFZ) Ranch that the President of the church, Warren Jeffs, conducted at least ...
Originally located in Utah, Jeffs moved he and the community to Short Creek before relocating them to the YFZ Ranch. Once the reports of him marrying off underage girls became widespread ...
As a result of the raid, the Department of Family and Protective Services ordered 437 children to be removed from the ranch. In the end, the majority of children were returned to the YFZ ranch but ...