How can something like that go on for so long without anyone doing anything about it? I am not that familiar with the case, but I find it intriguing that it was allowed to go on for as long as it did.

Unfortunately, there are just as many Warren Jeffs out there still operating. Let's hope this is just the beginning of a nationwide crackdown (wordlwide would be ideal but unrealistic)

I read Under the Banner of Heaven a short few years ago as well - leaving me fixated on all news out of the Utah/Colorado/Canadian/and Mexican bases of the FLDS. The kind of power wielded by these convenient "prophets" is evil and cruel and only possible in the backwaters from which they crawl. Hearing about Jeffs demise is a step forward for these poor women - and the children that grew up under him - either to serve as chattle or to be convinced that being a man means treating women as chattle.