From another article:
A draft agreement released by CPS attorney Gary Banks says the parents can get their children back after showing identification and pledging to take parenting classes and remain in Texas.
The agreement was reached with 38 mothers of 124 children who filed the complaint that prompted the Texas Supreme Court’s ruling Thursday.
The agreement does not specify that the fathers must stay away, and it allows the children to return to the ranch run by the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in Eldorado, about 40 miles south of San Angelo.
Texas District Judge Barbara Walther made revisions to the deal, and attorneys on both sides were reviewing them Friday afternoon.
http://www.statesman.com/news/content/gen/ap/Polygamist_Retreat.html
Thanks for the link to the article.
“parents can get their children back after showing identification and pledging to take parenting classes and remain in Texas.”
That does not sound unreasonable and the families may return to the ranch. I guess they have to wait a few more days, though. It’s beginning to look more and more positive. Yahoo!
All I can say is, those poor children!
CPS seems to be trying to get away from having to produce any evidence. Those are matters for the Court, although CPS can request the Court to issue orders requiring the parents to keep the kids in Texas, parently classes are so much equine feces. Funny, CPS wouldn't accept valid ID before, will they now?
The biggest vulnerability CPS has, and any law enforcement that helped them, is their little problem of taking adults into custody with no charges and no warrants, even some who showed such valid ID. That's false arrest or false imprisonment, or maybe kidnapping. I wouldn't think the statute would protect them against that.