Lets take polygamy out of this and look at just the fact that there are children who are pregnant at ages below the age of legal consent. There are young women with 3 ,4, or 5, year old children at the age of 18 which clearly puts them at giving birth below the age of consent. This is clearly illegal according to the laws in Texas. The men who impregnated these girls are by definition guilty of statutory rape because they are having sex with underage girls. If the state had not taken action after that call then they would have failed in their duty to protect the children. It doesnt matter if the call was found to be a hoax because once a call is made law enforcement has an obligation to follow up. Had they gone out there and not found any evidence of sex with underage girls then I doubt we would have heard about any of this. Chances are it would have been dropped due to the call being a hoax. I cannot understand why some people can only see persecution of the FLDS and not an effort to stop sex with underage girls.