After an attack that killed nine women and children from their community, about 100 members of Mormon families packed up and left Mexico for Arizona.
to the end of polygamy more than a century ago by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, forcing Mormon families in the U.S. with multiple wives to establish offshoots elsewhere.
Of the children who escaped, one was shot in the face, another in the foot. One girl suffered gunshot wounds to her back and foot.“We’re very proud of him,” Langford told the newspaper. “To be able to make those kind of decisions under those circumstances is something not a lot of people can say they can do.”
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