User:DylanStric/Lost boys (Mormon fundamentalism)

Specific incidences
The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (hereafter FLDS) is a particularly controversial fundamentalist sect which has repeatedly been connected with the concept of lost boys. As early as 1968, the church's home turf of Colorado City, Arizona had a peace officer whose responsibility was "to make sure that the boys would not associate with the girls.” This officer's main police duties evolved over the next two decades to include "running the surplus boys out of town" so as to allow the "worthy" men of the community to live plural marriage by adding new, younger wives. More recently, in the mid 1990s, a Colorado City police officer named Rodney Holm was one of a dozen men who attacked and assaulted a 17 year old named Robert Williams, because Williams had showed interest in a girl his age. The attack was organized by the girl's father, who was also Officer Holm’s brother. Afterwards, in February 1996, they pleaded no contest to simple assault.

Some individuals, such as Dan Fischer, a dentist who left the FLDS Church, work to help young men who have left or who have been ejected from polygamist organizations in cities like Hildale, Utah, or Colorado City, Arizona. The FLDS church was sued by six "lost boys" in August 2004 for "alleged economic and psychological injury."

Brent Jeffs details his early life as the grandson to a FLDS prophet and his eventual excommunication as "very different". At an early age Jeffs father decided to leave the church and take his family with him. Upon hearing this news Jeffs decides to return to the church to make the decision on his own. During this time he experiences a social black-balling for his families history with FLDS, as well as getting romantically intertwined with a girl his age, and removed himself once again from the church.