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Polygamy in Arizona

By AAN Staff
march 18, 2003  09:18 am
Polygamy in Arizona
Reports now suggest that the kidnapping of Utah's Elizabeth Smart was prompted in part by the polygamist views of her captors. And as Phoenix New Times staff writer John Dougherty reports in the first installment of a special investigative series, polygamy is alive and well along the Arizona-Utah border. In fact, a five-month investigation by Dougherty reveals that the state of Arizona has sat idly by for decades as young girls--some even younger than the 14-year-old Smart--have been forced into illegal polygamous marriages.
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