39 VOLUME 9 |ISSUE 1 |2018
a child from Canada for the unlawful purposes of sexual touching
and sexual interference. Jeffs had invoked God’s name and told
Brandon Blackmore in 2004 that Blackmore’s daughter “belonged
to him” and to bring her to Colorado City, Arizona, where the
13-year-old was married within days to 49-year-old Jeffs. That
fall, within a few weeks of her 14th birthday, Jeffs then sexually
assaulted her and recorded the act. … Jeffs has been serving a
life sentence in Texas since 2011 for aggravated sexual assault
of another 12-year-old girl. In the current decision, the judge
said that jail time was required for both Blackmores based on
what they did, despite their ages, their religious beliefs, and even
their medical conditions, noting that Gail Blackmore expressed
no remorse for her actions and was noncommittal when asked
whether she might repeat such actions.” (Vancouver Sun, 08/11/17)
Mexico arrests suspected US cult leader over triple murder
and pedophilia
“Mexican police have detained a polygamous cult leader wanted
in the United States on charges of pedophilia and who is a
suspect in the murder of three U.S. citizens in Mexico. Orson
William Black Jr. was arrested in the Mexican border state
of Chihuahua along with his four wives and 22 other people,
including minors, state prosecutors said in a statement. … Black
is a suspect in the murder of three men, but has not yet been
charged. He is also facing human trafficking charges. For now,
Black and others arrested are accused of entering Mexico illegally,
and animal cruelty, after police found butchered and frozen
animals on the properties. Black had been wanted in the U.S. for
15 years on pedophilia charges in the U.S. state of Arizona, before
fleeing to Mexico.” (VOA News, 11/06/17)
Murder of three teens in Mexico led police to fugitive US
polygamist
“Rancho El Negro is a five-hectare property amid rolling fields
of corn and cotton at the foothills of a lonely mountain outside
the town of Ciudad Cuauhtémoc in the north Mexican state of
Chihuahua. Neighbors ...referred to the farm as ‘The Company’
and had little to do with its owner. … Last weekend, more than
a hundred law enforcement officials descended on the ranch
and four other properties and arrested the owner, whom they
identified as Orson William Black Jr, 56—the fugitive leader of
a polygamist sect. … Along with Black, officials detained three
of his wives, a woman described as ‘a concubine,’ and 22 other
Americans living in Mexico illegally. Another woman escaped
during the raid, according to Mexican prosecutors. The raids
also turned up a bizarre collection of exotic animal parts and
stuffed animals, including elephant feet, a lion skin, stuffed birds
and buffalo heads. This week, Black was charged with illegal
possession of wildlife and human smuggling—and then quickly
extradited to the US. … FLDS leaders teach that men must have
at least three wives to reach the highest level of salvation. The
group’s former spiritual leader Warren Jeffs is now serving a life
sentence for sex crimes against two girls aged 12 and 14. Around
1990, Black proclaimed himself a prophet and founded his own
splinter group in Colorado City, Arizona. It was around that time
that he met the Petersons—a large polygamist family whose
patriarch had more than 40 children. … Black fled to Mexico in the
early 2000s with four of his wives and about 20 other followers,
including children. [Penny] Peterson [sister] had no news from
her sisters until two months ago, when she received a call from an
officer with the US Marshals. ‘He asked me to sit because he had
some bad news to share, and I thought he was gonna tell me my
sister Beth was dead. But instead, he told me my two nephews
were shot dead in Mexico,’ she said. Robert,15, and Michael,
23—sons of Beth and Roberta respectively—were murdered on
September 10 alongside a third American called Jesse Barlow,
23. Reports in the Mexican media say that all three were shot just
outside one of the trailer homes. … On a kitchen wall there are
pictures of his [Black’s] sect: seven men dressed in black, and a
separate line of 11 women dressed in flowing pioneer-era dresses
and long plaits none of them is smiling. Mexican officials say they
are still investigating Black’s activities in Chihuahua. His former
neighbors are left with nothing but questions. ‘We never knew
who he really was,’ said [closest neighbor Juanito] Peters. ‘But now
that the news is spreading we keep asking ourselves: what was
really going on inside those walls?’” (The Guardian, 11/11/17)
Judge orders birth certificates issued to children born secretly
on polygamous compound in South Dakota
“...At a hearing Thursday, most of which was conducted over
the telephone, a state judge in South Dakota ...agreed to issue
an order requiring the state’s Department of Vital Records to
issue birth certificates [for “two girls were born in secrecy on the
polygamous Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-
Day Saints compound near Pringle, S.D.”]. Seventh Circuit Court
Judge Jeff Davis signed the order later Thursday, [Sarah] Allred
later told The Salt Lake Tribune. Once it has been served on the
state agency, the certificates should be issued in two to four
weeks. Allred has been seeking the birth certificates for three
years—ever since she gained custody of the six children she had
with her now ex-husband. ...’We were not allowed to get birth
certificates per the leadership,’ Allred said. ...The legal case was
complicated by a lack of documentation. When Sarah Allred was
sent away from the FLDS in 2012, she had few church documents
or photos of the girls. Sarah Allred and her Utah attorney, Roger
Hoole, searched multiple states looking for any records showing
that she and her husband were caring for the girls as infants.
What records could be found, from hospitals, former church
members—as well as Allred’s divorce decree last year where a
Utah judge found she and Richard Allred were the girls’ parents—
were submitted as evidence to the judge in South Dakota. A
South Dakota attorney, who took Sarah Allred’s case pro bono,
represented her in the judge’s courtroom on Wednesday. ...Sarah
Allred hugged her 9- and 6-year-olds after the hearing ended.
(Salt Lake Tribune, September 14, 2017)
Arthur Janov, ‘primal scream’ psychotherapist with a rock star
client list, dies at 93
“Arthur Janov, a psychotherapist whose ‘primal therapy’ had
celebrities screaming to release their childhood traumas and
spawned a best-selling book in the 1970s, has died. He was
93. ...Janov, a clinical psychologist, became an international
celebrity with his idea that adults repressed childhood traumas,
making them neurotic and leading to problems such as mood
a child from Canada for the unlawful purposes of sexual touching
and sexual interference. Jeffs had invoked God’s name and told
Brandon Blackmore in 2004 that Blackmore’s daughter “belonged
to him” and to bring her to Colorado City, Arizona, where the
13-year-old was married within days to 49-year-old Jeffs. That
fall, within a few weeks of her 14th birthday, Jeffs then sexually
assaulted her and recorded the act. … Jeffs has been serving a
life sentence in Texas since 2011 for aggravated sexual assault
of another 12-year-old girl. In the current decision, the judge
said that jail time was required for both Blackmores based on
what they did, despite their ages, their religious beliefs, and even
their medical conditions, noting that Gail Blackmore expressed
no remorse for her actions and was noncommittal when asked
whether she might repeat such actions.” (Vancouver Sun, 08/11/17)
Mexico arrests suspected US cult leader over triple murder
and pedophilia
“Mexican police have detained a polygamous cult leader wanted
in the United States on charges of pedophilia and who is a
suspect in the murder of three U.S. citizens in Mexico. Orson
William Black Jr. was arrested in the Mexican border state
of Chihuahua along with his four wives and 22 other people,
including minors, state prosecutors said in a statement. … Black
is a suspect in the murder of three men, but has not yet been
charged. He is also facing human trafficking charges. For now,
Black and others arrested are accused of entering Mexico illegally,
and animal cruelty, after police found butchered and frozen
animals on the properties. Black had been wanted in the U.S. for
15 years on pedophilia charges in the U.S. state of Arizona, before
fleeing to Mexico.” (VOA News, 11/06/17)
Murder of three teens in Mexico led police to fugitive US
polygamist
“Rancho El Negro is a five-hectare property amid rolling fields
of corn and cotton at the foothills of a lonely mountain outside
the town of Ciudad Cuauhtémoc in the north Mexican state of
Chihuahua. Neighbors ...referred to the farm as ‘The Company’
and had little to do with its owner. … Last weekend, more than
a hundred law enforcement officials descended on the ranch
and four other properties and arrested the owner, whom they
identified as Orson William Black Jr, 56—the fugitive leader of
a polygamist sect. … Along with Black, officials detained three
of his wives, a woman described as ‘a concubine,’ and 22 other
Americans living in Mexico illegally. Another woman escaped
during the raid, according to Mexican prosecutors. The raids
also turned up a bizarre collection of exotic animal parts and
stuffed animals, including elephant feet, a lion skin, stuffed birds
and buffalo heads. This week, Black was charged with illegal
possession of wildlife and human smuggling—and then quickly
extradited to the US. … FLDS leaders teach that men must have
at least three wives to reach the highest level of salvation. The
group’s former spiritual leader Warren Jeffs is now serving a life
sentence for sex crimes against two girls aged 12 and 14. Around
1990, Black proclaimed himself a prophet and founded his own
splinter group in Colorado City, Arizona. It was around that time
that he met the Petersons—a large polygamist family whose
patriarch had more than 40 children. … Black fled to Mexico in the
early 2000s with four of his wives and about 20 other followers,
including children. [Penny] Peterson [sister] had no news from
her sisters until two months ago, when she received a call from an
officer with the US Marshals. ‘He asked me to sit because he had
some bad news to share, and I thought he was gonna tell me my
sister Beth was dead. But instead, he told me my two nephews
were shot dead in Mexico,’ she said. Robert,15, and Michael,
23—sons of Beth and Roberta respectively—were murdered on
September 10 alongside a third American called Jesse Barlow,
23. Reports in the Mexican media say that all three were shot just
outside one of the trailer homes. … On a kitchen wall there are
pictures of his [Black’s] sect: seven men dressed in black, and a
separate line of 11 women dressed in flowing pioneer-era dresses
and long plaits none of them is smiling. Mexican officials say they
are still investigating Black’s activities in Chihuahua. His former
neighbors are left with nothing but questions. ‘We never knew
who he really was,’ said [closest neighbor Juanito] Peters. ‘But now
that the news is spreading we keep asking ourselves: what was
really going on inside those walls?’” (The Guardian, 11/11/17)
Judge orders birth certificates issued to children born secretly
on polygamous compound in South Dakota
“...At a hearing Thursday, most of which was conducted over
the telephone, a state judge in South Dakota ...agreed to issue
an order requiring the state’s Department of Vital Records to
issue birth certificates [for “two girls were born in secrecy on the
polygamous Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-
Day Saints compound near Pringle, S.D.”]. Seventh Circuit Court
Judge Jeff Davis signed the order later Thursday, [Sarah] Allred
later told The Salt Lake Tribune. Once it has been served on the
state agency, the certificates should be issued in two to four
weeks. Allred has been seeking the birth certificates for three
years—ever since she gained custody of the six children she had
with her now ex-husband. ...’We were not allowed to get birth
certificates per the leadership,’ Allred said. ...The legal case was
complicated by a lack of documentation. When Sarah Allred was
sent away from the FLDS in 2012, she had few church documents
or photos of the girls. Sarah Allred and her Utah attorney, Roger
Hoole, searched multiple states looking for any records showing
that she and her husband were caring for the girls as infants.
What records could be found, from hospitals, former church
members—as well as Allred’s divorce decree last year where a
Utah judge found she and Richard Allred were the girls’ parents—
were submitted as evidence to the judge in South Dakota. A
South Dakota attorney, who took Sarah Allred’s case pro bono,
represented her in the judge’s courtroom on Wednesday. ...Sarah
Allred hugged her 9- and 6-year-olds after the hearing ended.
(Salt Lake Tribune, September 14, 2017)
Arthur Janov, ‘primal scream’ psychotherapist with a rock star
client list, dies at 93
“Arthur Janov, a psychotherapist whose ‘primal therapy’ had
celebrities screaming to release their childhood traumas and
spawned a best-selling book in the 1970s, has died. He was
93. ...Janov, a clinical psychologist, became an international
celebrity with his idea that adults repressed childhood traumas,
making them neurotic and leading to problems such as mood
