Girls From Polygamous Homes Flee
Two girls placed in state foster care last month after fleeing from the polygamous community of Colorado City are on the run again.
 
The Associated Press
KLS 1160 Newsradio
 
Two girls placed in state foster care last month after fleeing from the polygamous community of Colorado City are on the run again.

The 16-year-olds left Sunday while on a weekend camping trip in west Phoenix.

Flora Jessop of Phoenix, a former Colorado City resident who left as a teenager in 1986, says the girls were scared they would be returned to their parents.

Jessop says that in letters they left behind the girls wrote that they feared being locked up or forced to marry much older men if they were sent home.

A Child Protective Services spokeswoman says police have been notified, and law enforcement officials statewide have orders to hold the girls if they find them.

She says CPS has no plans to return the teenagers to their parents.
 
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Original broadcast February 18, 2004
 
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