Former plural wife in Utah seeks birth certificates for children born in secrecy in South Dakota
The first daughter was born at 1:50 p.m. on a windy day at the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints compound in South Dakota. It was late June 2008.
The second daughter was born at the compound in September 2010, her mother says. Like her older sister, no one told South Dakota authorities when she was born, and no one issued her a birth certificate.
The mother, Sarah Allred, says the secrecy was on the orders of FLDS President Warren Jeffs, who ran the polygamous church from its base in Hildale, Utah, before being sent to prison in Texas for sexually abusing underage girls he married.
"We were told we were not allowed to get South Dakota birth certificates because Warren did not want people to know anything about South Dakota," Allred said Friday in an interview.
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