Scourge of the FLDS
The Los Angeles Times reports from Sandy on the man the polygamous FLDS church may fear most.Dan Fischer was branded a apostate when he left the cult with one of his wives. Since then, the successful dentist and inventor has used his fortune to help others escape the group through his Diversity Foundation.
To Enos Deloy Steed, one of the "Lost Boys" banished from the FLDS in their teens (in his case for kissing a girl), Fischer was a guardian angel who put him through college:
He gives us a fair shot in the world, a chance to have a life, because he can relate. It's really great that someone is willing.Fischer sheltered Carolyn Jessop, who recounts her leaving the FLDS in a best-selling memoir Escape:
Without him, I would not have survived.Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff says of Fischer:
He has done more for the lost boys than everyone else combined. I know he doesn't like to brag about it, but he has spent millions.Fischer also has also gone on the offense against FLDS prophet Warren Jeffs, whom Fischer says "annihilated" his family after he left the group. Fischer hired private investigators who tracked down a child bride and got her to testify in Jeffs' accomplice-to-rape trial. Jeffs was sentenced to two consecutive terms of five years to life in prison.
3 Comments:
I read the Times' story. Sad that the tribune got scooped in its own territory. Let's see, Sandy is about 20 or so miles from the tribune place in Gateway. Sandy is about 500 miles, give or take, from LA.
Tribune reporters don't have a clue about turf, beats, sources, etc. Next I expect to read in the Miami Herald about the super highway bridge building projects all over the Salt Lake valley. Another is being erected across from Dan's in the Olympus Mall to be moved to I-215 and 3300 South on the east bench.
Don't fret, tribune folks. Your chief rival, DNews, also hasn't done its job regarding the spectacular construction and engineering jobs going on with the innovative project.
Sad, because it's a great story - national and international - with a great opportunity for photos and multi-media.
Kudos to Fischer and others that are willing to spend time and money to take on these predators. Warren Jeffs and his kind ruin lives of little girls, adult women, children, and lost boys while we taxpayers have to pick up the tab.
King,
The Tribune didn't cover the super highway bridge because
- it makes Utah look good
- it involves roads instead of rails
- there's no ax to grind and nothing of interest to those with chips on their shoulders
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