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Company with ties to polygamous church is again accused of using child labor — this time under a different name

The U.S. Department of Labor says a Utah company found in the past to have unlawfully used children to harvest pecans is operating under a new name and has again been caught using children as laborers.

The Labor Department is asking that the company, Paragon Contractors Corp., and its owner, Brian Jessop, again be held in contempt of court. Both have deep ties to the polygamous Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Jessop is listed as a city councilman in Hildale, Utah.

In 2007, Paragon was found to have violated child labor laws and ordered to not do so again.