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	Texas Says FLDS Beliefs Turn Girls into Sex Victims By Brooke Adams and Kristen Moulton Salt Lake Tribune April 18, 2008 URLhttp://origin.sltrib.com/news/ci_8969119 SAN ANGELO, Texas - A child abuse investigator who led the initial foray into a polygamous sect's west Texas ranch said Thursday that children are not safe there because their parents have a belief system that "turns boys into perpetrators and girls into sexual assault victims." Angie Voss, a supervisor with Texas Child Protective Services, spent six hours in an unprecedented custody hearing testifying about why the state took 416 children two weeks ago from the YFZ Ranch, owned by the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Voss said one minor is pregnant and four have children. "There are young girls who feel the pinnacle of their existence is to get married whenever they are told and have as many children as they can have," she said. Even infants and children in monogamous homes are not safe on the ranch, she said. "It's not about religion. It's about child abuse," Voss said, drawing laughter from many of the 100 or so FLDS members in the audience.
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