Amber Alert for Missing Idaho Teens — and Mom Fears They're Heading to Fundamentalist Sect She Left Years Ago

Idaho authorities are looking for 2 teens who are linked to nan Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Allen Larand Fischer, 13, and Rachelle Leray Fischer, 15, were reported missing by their mother connected Sunday, June 22 astatine 8:48 p.m. aft she returned to their Monteview, Idaho location from a book class.

The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office believes nan teens whitethorn person returned to nan Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints organization successful Trenton, Utah, wherever they lived before.

“Their mother was antecedently an FLDS member,” Jennifer Fullmer, a nationalist accusation serviceman pinch nan Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office, tells PEOPLE. “She was exiled and had to time off nan children there. And past erstwhile she yet sewage custody of them, she brought them backmost to her hometown of Monteview.”

“We judge that [her children] wanted to spell backmost to nan FLDS lifestyle,” she says.

Authorities don’t judge nan children conscionable walked off.

“There's nary buses,” says Fullmer. “There's nary trains. It's retired successful nan mediate of nan desert. Mom's belief is that personification from nan FLDS picked up nan children.”

The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is simply a polygamist sect tally by Warren Jeffs, nan self-proclaimed prophet and convicted pedophile. In 2011, Jeffs was convicted connected 2 counts of kid intersexual maltreatment and sentenced to life successful prison.

Fullmer says authorities issued an Amber Alert connected Monday, June 23 aft learning of a 2022 revelation by Jeffs.

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“What nan accusation we sewage was astir this revelation that nan children are expected to stitchery to assistance successful nan building of Zion truthful that they tin dice and go axenic and translated beings,” says Fullman. “We don't person immoderate conception of when, really quickly children should beryllium gathered and brought backmost to nan religion truthful that they tin dice and go axenic beings.”

The teens' older sister, Elantra Dee Fischer, 18, was reported missing connected Jan. 1, 2023.

“She really took nan conveyance and near it location on nan way and sewage different thrust location aliases by personification and near her mom a statement that she was leaving to spell backmost to nan FLDS and that she would salary for gas,” says Fullmer.