Posted on 04/16/2008 1:39:51 PM PDT by MissouriConservative
Several women from the polygamist retreat raided more than a week ago defended their lifestyle Wednesday in an exclusive interview with FOX News, calling it "a wonderful pure life," and saying government officials deceived them when they raided the ranch where they live.
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"I want the world to know that our children have been torn from us and that they need us," said Sally, a mother of nine.
"They told us that they were going to put us on a bus and take us to where it was a bigger, better place to be — where our family could be together," she added.
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On Monday, officials began separating women and some of their offspring without warning, members of the sect said.
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Texas Children's Protective Services spokeswoman Marleigh Meisner said officials decided that children are more truthful in interviews about possible abuse if their parents are not around.
"I can tell you we believe the children who are victims of abuse or neglect, and particularly victims at the hands of their own parents, certainly are going to feel safer to tell their story when they don't have a parent there that's coaching them with how to respond," Meisner said.
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Doesn't matter what a parole officer has certified if that woman is pregnant with his kid. She's been in Texas all along. He's been in Arizona ~ supposedly. A simple understanding of basic animal husbandry principles will demonstrate that he'd been messin' aroun' somewhere!
The parole officer did NOT indicate he was there.
He has no real way of knowing.
The case is not difficult. Pregnant little girls. DNA tests.
Incestuous pedophile slave holders go to prison, hopefully to learn what it feels like to be an abused wife.
Looks like Big Love is going to get shut down, and not a few Aishas will be set free.
Now that does remind me of Spahn Ranch and Charles Manson.
NO! I think we’d all lose our minds.
As would I; and it would be, at least partly because we don't abuse our children or sell them into sexual slavery, so we would know we were wrongly and unjustly accused.
But: I don’t subscribe to a written, verifiable, public position of whoring my daughters off to child predators. Nor is there any physical evidence that I have ever done so.
To reference a previous post who mentioned these women on the news being interviewed, I could tell you and would tell you if asked, that no one I know is or has been pregnant under the age of consent. Oddly enough (not) these women all refused to answer that question. Wonder why?
If I DID, I hope CPS would come get them. I would be a terribly abusive mother in that case.
Of course.
It would also be abusive to stand idly by and watch children being abused and not report it. Which is why, I suspect, the other children were taken. If their mental faculties are such that they cannot or will not report abuse or are actively taking part in abuse, they can't be allowed around children.
Thank you a thousand times for your strongly worded response. The whole thing about "the women are abused, too" doesn't go very far with me.
Mothers protects children, period.
An amniocentesis will be easier if they can find the girl .
You can drive the distance of 811 miles out in that open country in about 10 hours (wearing Depends) or 15 hours with plenty of time for food and rest.
Also, not too far-fetched to wonder what happens when the one-child policies in Asia translate into a lot of frustrated young men who outnumber women.
They changed it to 16. The old standard for field hands and Mexican workers was simply abolished. Most of the Souf’ has moved ahead into the 21st century in fact. Even ol’ Jer Lee would get busted today!
Yes. That word only applies to relations between men and boys.
You are right. At this stage it's Waco Revisited - with the Initial Raid working as planned.
Iff'n only those dumb FLDS had gotten themselves a few guns, they would have a lot more support on FR.
Doesn’t it!
Even better. If a girl were transported across state lines so that he could have sex with her, that would be a violation of the Mann Act which is a federal crime.
“And we all know that children can be manipulated to say what ever the “interviewer” wants. This whole thing smells.”
You don’t think the mothers could ‘manipulate’ the kids to say anything they want?
It’s pretty obvious there is a criminal conspiracy between the ‘wives’ and their ‘husbands’ to manipulate public opinion about what went on in that compound. Part of that conspiracy is to get the kids to deny everything.
Not to belabor the point, but how else could one interpret this statement by acfan?
Shades of the trains to Auschwitz
How about if we avoid all references to Nazis and concentration camps?
The Great State of Texas better get this right. If these cases are botched, then we're opening the door to sharia law. That may be an overstatement, but it seems like the only religion allowed to circumvent the separation of church and state is Islam.
It was the normal state of humanity for there to be many more men than women and for as many women as possible to live in purdah (walled up in a house by a powerful man), with a few turned loose as prostitutes for the use of the great majority of men.
That was normal. It was also female slavery.
We don't have to live that way anymore and we should not tolerate it.
Only if there is an accuser to a crime
A woman who had gone to their church once as a visitor did a horrible crime and the media jumped on the idea that maybe it was because of this church. They walked around the neighborhood and could not find anyone to say anything bad about these people. They tried talking to me, looked at my big house with an addition in the back and asked, "Is this a compound?" I just shook my head. "No. It's my house."
Still, there is no parallel with WACO. They were, as it turned out, manufacturing thermite grenades on site.
In any case this is a 13th Amendment case, clear as a bell.
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