Saturday was one of those almost but not quite days for the Campbell County boys soccer team.
Top-ranked and consensus favorite to win the Class 4A state soccer tournament, the Camels fell just … More
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Families sought for teens from FLDS
Posted 3/4/13
ST. GEORGE — A group of state officials and educators is looking for Utah families willing to take in teens who have left polygamous homes.
The Safety Net program hopes to find new host families willing to care for teens who have left the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. The polygamous church is accused of influencing families to eject youths or other family members deemed to be “apostates,” leaving them struggling to adapt to an unfamiliar society outside their insular community.
Former FLDS member Hyrum Barlow, 22, said his host family was instrumental in pushing him to obtain a GED certificate and still offers support to him, his wife and their daughter. He left the Hildale-Colorado City community when he was 15.
“It was tough going in to somebody you don’t know and the rules — having to have a curfew and always check in with someone,” Barlow said. “(But) it was nice having someone to take care of you and help out with things.”
