Via: Salt Lake Tribune

Utah birth certificates may be playing a significant role in an investigation into possible sexual abuse at a polygamous sect’s Texas ranch, The Salt Lake Tribune has learned.

An Arizona investigator requested copies of birth certificates for approximately 25 FLDS couples from the YFZ Ranch – about 50 people in all – to confirm their dates of birth, according to Jeff Duncan, director of the Utah Office of Vital Records and Statistics.

Gary Engles, a special investigator for Mohave County, Ariz., made the request for information first to the Utah Attorney General’s Office, which referred him to the vital statistics office.

“I never heard anything directly from the state of Texas,” Duncan said.

Engles has spearheaded the investigation of polygamy-related cases from Colorado City, Ariz. The town and adjacent Hildale, Utah, are the traditional home base of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

Engles provided a spreadsheet with names of men and women and their ages, apparently based on bishop’s records and other evidence seized from the YFZ Ranch in Eldorado, Texas.

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