From CNN.com
Nearly 60 men surrounding the temple of a polygamist sect in Texas dropped to their knees, prayed and wept openly — but never violently resisted — as law enforcement officers raided the building they hold sacred.
Authorities on Thursday wrapped up nearly a week at the YFZ (Yearning For Zion) Ranch, where they say a 16-year-old girl had called social workers and timidly recounted being beaten, choked and sexually assaulted by the 49-year-old man who had fathered her child after their “spiritual marriage” last year.
Two people were arrested and 416 children were taken into state custody at the ranch — which is run by founder Warren Steed Jeffs’ Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. At the ranch, authorities say, men routinely took multiple wives, and girls as young as 13 were forced into sexual relationships with adult men.
