One shouldn't take away a single child, let alone a huge number of them, without probable case that the child is in danger. I don't think anyone alleges that any child under 13 is in danger - but why did they take all of them? Evidence? Since when can you take a child away from his/her parents for evidence? Since now I guess.
The parents could not or would not identify their biological children, and the children did not know who their real mothers were. DNA testing will establish that.
The mothers knew that if they identified their own children and told their own identities and real ages, that information would implicate their polygamist husbands. So they all kept quiet and refused to say.
The judge will get it sorted out.
You can think that, but it wasn't illegal. Everything was done within the law.
One shouldn't take away a single child, let alone a huge number of them, without probable case that the child is in danger. I don't think anyone alleges that any child under 13 is in danger - but why did they take all of them?
There was probable cause. That's why the judge approved the warrant. Furthermore, I believe there much of the evidence has not been leaked to the media. There are going to be multiple trials.
Moreover, you seem to have a cavalier attitude towards child abuse cases where the authorities act. I read more and more cases where nothing is done until the child is dead - and then everyone is asking "Where was everyone?"
Former FLDS members will be expert witnesses at the trials to events such as holding infants under water - "breaking babies" as Carolyn Jessop said on a recent television interview. Girls as young as 12 being added to the "Joy Book" putting them out there for "marriage" to the old men. Boys being abandoned once they reached puberty.
The state of Texas didn't create this mess. The FLDS did. You want the state to clean it up overnight?