Former polygamous community on verge of 'renaissance' after years of isolation, trauma
LAKE HAVASU CITY, Ariz. (AP) — A small, remote northern Arizona town where a polygamist group used to be dominant makes few headlines these days. But that doesn’t mean it’s been entirely forgotten.
Mohave County officials have decided to support a project to assess and address the long-isolated community’s health needs, Today’s News-Herald reported.
County Health Director Denise Burley said her department will benefit from new data and work with community members to create strategies to address residents’ needs.
The process will largely be conducted by the community itself, Burley said. “It won’t be our staff or county staff who will be working on this,” Burley said. “The community members themselves will come together and do the work.”
The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, the sect that long dominated the Short Creek area that includes Colorado City, was run by Warren Jeffs, but he’s now serving a life sentence in Texas for sexually assaulting girls he considered brides.
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