Source: Salt Lake Tribune

A push for federal help prosecuting crimes within polygamous communities has the support of a majority of Utahns, a new poll shows.

“I don’t know whether any of the individual states are doing a very good job of tackling it on their own,” said Jared Esplin, 35, of South Jordan.

Esplin was among the 56 percent of Utahns in a recent survey who want the federal government to take a more active role in such prosecutions.

“I think young girls are being forced to marry older men and I think that is rape,” Esplin said. “This seems to be crossing state lines and to be more than the states know what to do with.”

Barbara Rowland, of Payson, agrees. “People cannot pick and choose which laws they want to abide by,” she said. But the states “are not doing a very good job of it. You can go to any town in this state and find polygamists.”

The poll was conducted Aug. 13-15 – three weeks after a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing at which Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid called polygamous communities a “form of organized crime” and asked the federal government to “play a larger role in this fight.”

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