The Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing on increasing coordination between state and federal governments concerning crimes associated polygamy. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) said some crimes committed by fundamentalist polygamist groups are almost unspeakable. Senator Arlen Specter (R-Penn.) said the crimes include statutory rape, domestic abuse, and child abuse. (more…)

At a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on offenses committed by polygamist groups, Brett Tolman, a United States Attorney for the District of Utah, reads an exhausting list of varied crimes his office has investigated since 2004, from child abuse to tax fraud. (1:16)

 

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