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THE COFFEE BREAK - Friday, April 11, 2008
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Child welfare investigators said their trip to a polygamist
compound in Texas found many pregnant teens and underage
girls saying they were forced to marry.
Court documents, unsealed Tuesday, detailed evidence that
prompted Texas officials to evacuate 416 children from the
YFZ Ranch, near Eldorado, Texas, built by the Fundamentalist
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, The Los Angeles
Times said.
Court papers said investigators, responding to a 16-year-old
girl who said she was sexually abused, beaten and threatened
at the ranch, found many girls either pregnant or had given
birth.
Lynn McFadden, a Texas Department of Family and Protective
Services investigator, said in the affidavit there was a
"widespread pattern and practice" among young girls to enter
into "spiritual marriages" arranged by the polygamist sect
and begin having sex with older men and having babies as
young as 13.
Men were "having sexual relationships with a number of
women, some of whom are minors," she said.
In a separate affidavit, investigators said children were
deprived of nutrition as punishment and forced to sit in
closets.
Church elders said Texas is engaging in religious
persecution. "There needs to be a public outcry that goes
far and wide," Merrill Jessop, compound overseer, told the
Salt Lake Tribune. "The hauling off of women and children
matches anything in Russia or Germany."
What are your thought on the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter Day Saints?
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Disney to release 10 animated films by '12
The Walt Disney Studios unveiled at a New York news
conference Tuesday a slate of 10 animated feature movies to
be released through 2012. The lineup includes new movies
from Disney and Pixar's filmmakers, featuring the vocal
performances of stars such as John Travolta and Miley Cyrus
in "Bolt;" Reese Witherspoon, Billy Connolly and Emma
Thompson in "The Bear and the Bow;" Anika Noni Rose and John
Goodman in "The Princess and the Frog;" and Tom Hanks, Tim
Allen and the rest of the "Toy Story" ensemble in "Toy
Story 3." The roster includes six films from Pixar
Animation Studios, four from Walt Disney Animation Studios
and the first four in a series of direct-to-DVD films
featuring Disney Fairies from DisneyToon Studios. "We're
excited to be pushing the boundaries of 3-D and computer
technology to tell our stories in the best possible way,"
John Lasseter, chief creative officer for Walt Disney and
Pixar Animation Studios, said in a statement. "At the same
time, we're drawing on our past to emphasize memorable
characters, original edge-of-your-seat stories, and
believable worlds."
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The Fall's Smith says he slit a squirrel
Britain's humane society says it's investigating The Fall's
frontman Mark E. Smith for allegedly lopping off a
squirrel's head with a hedge trimmer. The punk rocker
reportedly bragged to a music magazine he "killed a couple"
of endangered squirrels recently, The Daily Mail reported
Wednesday. If the Royal Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals' investigation confirms Smith's claim
of a backyard beheading, the 51-year-old musician could be
prosecuted under the Wildlife and Countryside Act. The
singer said he would "happily set about an endangered red
squirrel with a set of professional hedge clippers," the
British newspaper reported. "Squirrels mean nothing to me.
I killed a couple last weekend actually," Smith allegedly
said during the magazine interview. "The comments made by
Mark E. Smith are extremely irresponsible and he has
basically admitted to committing an offense under the
Wildlife and Countryside Act by killing two red squirrels,"
said RSPCA spokeswoman Klare Kennett. Red squirrels are
"highly protected," Kennett said, and a person convicted of
killing, harming or taking red squirrels from the wild
could be sentenced up to six months in prison and a fined
up to $40,000.
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Elephant enclosed in soap bubble
The owners of a Perris, Calif., elephant ranch say an artist
has set what is believed to be a world record for the
largest mammal to be enclosed in a bubble. Artist Fan Yang
wrapped Tai, a female Asian elephant, in a soap bubble
before an audience that included Perris Mayor Daryl Busch,
ranch owners Gary and Kari Johnson and representatives from
Riverside County Animal Services and Perris Animal Control,
the Riverside (Calif.) Press-Enterprise reported Wednesday.
Yang placed the elephant on a platform and used a pulley
system of bubble wands to create a soapy circle around the
pachyderm. The event had originally been planned for a
public showing at the Santa Ana Discovery Science Center,
but was switched to a private affair at the ranch after
animal-rights advocates criticized the plan. "What we were
doing in no way hurt the elephant. We know. We are the
experts. That's what we do," Kari Johnson said. "Nobody
protects the elephants better than we do." Les Schobert,
one of 11 current and former zoo professionals who signed
a letter urging the Santa Ana center to abandon the plan,
said the critics took issue with "the mind-set that tells
people elephants are just here for us to use any way we
want." The feat has been submitted to Guinness World
Records for certification.
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"First, this is a very sad situation. Second, don't
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