Judge orders Utah-based polygamous sect to sell South Dakota compound
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PRINGLE, S.D. — A South Dakota judge ordered a secretive polygamous sect to sell its compound in the Black Hills to pay for a lawsuit settlement.
Court documents show that a sheriff has been ordered to sell the Fundamentalist LDS Church property near Pringle in Custer County.
The sect still owes nearly $1.7 million to three men as part of a 2017 settlement in federal court. Two of the men were allegedly detained and unlawfully jailed in Arizona after a dispute over access to a property that the sect had leased to the men.