[politicalwit]

State child welfare authorities on Friday appealed a stinging court ruling that said their seizure of more than 440 children from a polygamist sect's ranch was unjustified, but they also agreed to reunite 12 children with their parents while the case moves on.

Isn't that really special of CPS. /s

[kbennkc]

960 kilometres

Ya just git back on your on side there Yukon King , and keep your damn kilometres out of Texas .

[Saundra Duffy]

The state wanted to make it look like they are being compassionate. Woopee, they released 12 kids under strict scrutiny. Oh, well, those 12 kids are better off now.

I think the action makes TX CPS look bad, though, because they have just admitted that those 12 kids were not being abused by their parents.

[Saundra Duffy]

“The families cannot return to the Yearning For Zion ranch, where they lived before the raid. “

My husband’s theory is starting to make more and more sense. He says someone wants the ranch property really bad. The FLDS paid $700,000 for it and now it’s worth millions after FLDS made improvements.

One of the stipulations for release of the 12 children is that they not be allowed to return to their home. Interesting.

[CharlesWayneCT]

The agency accused parents of being unco-operative and not providing proper identification - though in dozens of individual custody hearings this week, parents provided state-issued birth certificates. Other sect members mistakenly believed to be minors also provided drivers' licenses as proof of their age.

Every day, more things the CPS told us are found not to be true.

[HeartlandOfAmerica]

CPS said in its appeal to the Texas Supreme Court that the appeal court was wrong to say that the vast majority of children at the ranch did not face the sort of extreme danger state law requires for them to

This is a lie. They know it's a lie. They're just piling lies upon lies upon more lies.

Texas law is NOT unambiguous on this. It QUITE clearly states that there must be "immediate danger" before children can be taken from their parents.

IMMEDIATE. The word is in the law. The law doesn't say anything about "extreme danger." It cites "IMMEDIATE danger!"

Jeez. Think they got that yet?? IMMEDIATE NOT EXTREME!

[HeartlandOfAmerica]

In justifying their removal of the children from the ranch, Child Protective Services cited as "documented" sexual abuse a statement from a girl who said she knew a 16-year-old who is married with a five-month-old baby; and the statement from another girl that "Uncle Merrill" decides who and when she will marry. The state also cited five underage pregnant girls.

Is this the lying little weasel that sparked this whole hoax, that suddenly nobody can actually find?

More lies. Their case is nothing but lies.

[PAR35]

The agency cited evidence it said showed that the church pushed teenage girls into spiritual marriages with older men.

So now they are saying that the marriages were only 'spiritual' marriages, and not marriages in the traditional sense?

[DannyTN]