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A college educated engineer who lived in salt lake city, and designed equipment for the space shuttle. first in public he was very successful, but in private? in private, lloyd was fully aware, as we all were, the polygamy was illegal, so we did all he could to keep his huge and growing family a secret. >> my father had 25 children total, nine from his first wife, 14 from his second, and two from his third. >> did you feel different from people around you? >> they told us that we are different f...

She was able to give me their family background, all the lineage. >> reporter: rebecca knew it all. because she personally helped compile it. >> i was there. and i saw, i heard, and i was involved with helping to gather this so it was the prophets wives who came and helped sort them out. the different kinds of records putting all of the personal records together, all of the family records together. >> reporter: marriages. babies. blood lines. the whole intricate web. but there was one thing rebe...

Preached the warning for generations. ever since that still vividly remembered raid on the church in short crick way back in 1953. a fact which some 1,500 miles away rebecca knew very well. >> to know that the lives of people that you love dearly, feeling their terror, understanding the responsibility of the law, it was like two worlds crashing together and having a major explosion inside of me. it felt like i was being ripped apart. >> reporter: and almost immediately it seemed to go wrong. ins...

Sacred ordinances with what sounded like a young girl. because he said her name on the tape, it was a simple matter of matching her to church records seized in the texas raid. it turned out she was just 12 years old. the tone -- quiet, almost soothing -- belies the horror of whats really happening. >> that feels good. now repeat the words from your mouth. >> this is a horrible thing to listen to. it will just rock you, its so horrible. >> reporter: eventually the master copy of the recording was...

Misdemeanor charge of filing a false report, her case was eventually dismissed. but rod parker, one of the attorneys who represented the flds, was furious about the actions of the texas rangers. >> what they did is they described a person who didnt exist and used it to justify a complete search of the ranch. >> reporter: families separated, children shipped away, some not returned for almost two months. a sacred temple defiled. but neither the rangers nor rebecca had second thoughts. sarah barlo...

Former flds attorney rod parker. >> what the state did was in traumatizing that entire community and all those children, that was wrong. what texas should have done is taken a more targeted approach, not just sweep up everybody. >> we didnt particularly enjoy it either. nobody likes taking a child out of his environment. even in the worst of circumstances. but the laws the law and the courts spoke and said, "these kids are in danger" and so we had to do what we had to do. >> reporter: mind you, ...

Had been spirituality united with adult men that no age was too young for this. and it was the prophet who decided when and whom they should marry. the next day, 18 girls were determined to have been abused or at imminent risk of abuse and were removed from the ranch. and then over the next two days dozens more children, some very young, were forcibly removed from their parents and taken to temporary housing. >> my 2-year-old son was screaming "mother, dont let them take me. dont let them take m...

All but one. the 12-year-old from the audio tape, whose mother died after the raid. but leave the church? oh no. the last time we spoke to rebecca, she told us the girl, now a woman, still considers herself a wife of the prophet and is thought to be living in an flds compound somewhere in the u.s. the state of texas seized the ranch and sold it. this former religious commune was transformed into a miitary and law enforcement training base, of all things. a few years later -- >> we received a tip...

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Their families have not been told the reasons for their detention.