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April 28, 2008 | 3:53 pm

Many of Texas’ FLDS teen girls pregnant, mothers

Posted by Brad A. Greenberg

More bad news regarding all those children taken into Texas custody when their parents’ polygamist ranch was raided earlier this month. From AP:

SAN ANTONIO - More than half the teen girls taken from a polygamist compound in west Texas have children or are pregnant, state officials said Monday.

A total of 53 girls between the ages of 14 and 17 are in state custody after a raid 3 1/2 weeks ago at the Yearning For Zion Ranch in Eldorado. Of those girls, 31 either have children or are pregnant, said Child Protective Services spokesman Darrell Azar. Two of those are pregnant now, he said; it was unclear whether either of those two already have children.

“It shows you a pretty distinct pattern, that it was pretty pervasive,” he said.

To be fair, I know some churches that wouldn’t fair much better on a non-pregnant, per-capita basis. The difference, of course, is that the pregnancies in the former were caused by a now-repudiated religious lifestyle while in the later they’re borne of, as Juno‘s mom puts it, teenage boredom.

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Imagine that! A slew of teen pregnancies that we can’t blame on alcohol, drugs, and MTV. I’ll bet this is a big victory for the atheist crowd… “It was God that gott’em pregnant”! I can just see the Virgin Mary cracks flowing like water over at the Richard Dawkins Fan Club meeting.

Comment by Guy Vestal on 4/29/08 at 8:38 pm

Why are you posting this inaccurate and old news?

The 31 of 53 ended up being FOUR (4).

Comment by kbp on 8/01/08 at 10:16 pm

This claim by Texas CPS has already been debunked as false. Many of the “pregnant teen moms” were not teenagers at all. Texas mis-identified the ages of several of these girls, who were really adults. One woman classified as a teen mom was actually 27, and the state refused to ackowledge she was 27 even though she had a driver’s license, a birth certificate and her mother’s assertion of the facts at issue. She was declared 27 by a judge. The truth is, only about five girls, if that, are teen moms. Texas has a higher teen pregnancy rate in larger society than this community has.

Comment by Mary Batchelor on 8/03/08 at 1:48 am

Your news release of Friday Aug 1, ‘08. has already been proven to be false.  Why do you re-issue the article???

Comment by Mike on 8/04/08 at 12:48 pm

Folks, this article was published on April 28—three months ago, back when this information was new, and therefore news.

Comment by Brad A. Greenberg on 8/04/08 at 1:20 pm

I HOPE GOD IS WITH THOSE GIRLS FOR HEAVENS SAKE LOVE JOE

Comment by JOEY CIRELLO on 8/09/08 at 6:48 pm

It’s worth noting that the “information” is false. By the time the case got to the Texas appeals court, the number was down from 31 to 5, the authorities having admitted that most of the rest were actually adults, one of them 26. Given that the authorities had previously refused to accept birth certificates as evidence of age, hence could not know the ages of the women they claimed to be minors, nobody paying attention to the case ought to have believed the story in the first place.

Comment by David Friedman on 8/26/08 at 6:44 pm

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