Then why didn’t they round up all the men? Furthermore, the complaint, it turns out, was filed by a 33 year old lunatic. They went in there, terrorizing little children, ripping them from their mothers. Didn’t you see the photos of the jack booted thugs and the tank? It reminded me of a Janet Reno raid!
What I can’t understand is why you think it’s OK to round up these innocent children, separate them from their mothers, but you apparently think it’s not a crime for old drooling geezers to impregnant teenage girls all across America. There are so few prosecutions for statutory rape, it isn’t even funny.
You’re becoming irrational, Saundra!
Statutory rape sanctioned by the perps' "church" is even more rare, and less funny.
Could you possibly spare a thought for the authorities? In the case of a like compound in Canada, Bountiful,British Columbia, which indeed is connected with the Texas one, the Canadian authorities twice turned down the police. First on the criminal offence of polygamy, the politicos turned down the police recomendation of charges. They feared the leftist courts would then legitimise that practice, under the new charter of rights and freedoms.
Just over a year ago, the RCMP recommended charges once more. This on the act of prohibiting persons of power and trust from exploiting under 18 year olds, sexually. (A five year maximum rap). The politicos rejected that advice. They said they would hardly be able to prove the case in court.
The Canadian politicos can sit back and enjoy the summer, not a care in the world- "up a lazy river by the old mill run" etc. The Texas authorities are having to cope with a very touchy situation. They could have procrastinated.
Bravo for them, says I.
I don’t think that it is ok at all. I’m just tired of saying so. I had a pretty good feeling from the beginning that the phone call was bogus, and if I could tell it was bogus, so could the authorities.
So, they grabbed all the kids and gave them internal exams to check for sexual abuse, interrogated them about their parents and living conditions and separated all the older boys who seemed to be the leaders and sent them to a “boys ranch”, which was described as a place for all sorts of boys (tough love kind of place), but the YFZ boys were being kept separated from the the rest of the boys.
So, the only way that they can prove that statutory rape occurred is to prove that some girls became mothers before the age of 18. That’s where they are now. Maybe they ought to go to the local high school and drag in all the pregnant girls, or the local Indian reservation, and see if they can arrest anyone for statutory in those cases, and in the mean time, they can haul off all the illegitimate kids of teen age mothers. It takes a village, you know and all that.
The cult may be dangerous, but this sure isn’t the way to go about proving it. They may have stopped the under age marriages after Jeffs got arrested. We don’t know, but I’ll bet that we will find out when the the cult takes the state to court.
Many poopoo the analogy but I think it is spot on. Not condoning any illegal behavior, but it borders on religious persecution in context to the analogy. Certainly, in my opinion it is an out of control government entity trampling rights and the constitution. Nevertheless, I am waiting for more information before I join the Nancy Grace Mob and certainly I don’t see the need to indict the Mormon religion as many are doing because this particular sect is disassociated.