Posted on 04/24/2008 3:01:56 PM PDT by Politicalmom
25 mothers taken from FLDS ranch now believed to be minors
SAN ANGELO, Texas — Twenty-five mothers staying at a shelter for children taken from a polygamists' compound are now believed to be minors.
Child Protective Services spokesman Darrell Azar says the girls initially claimed to be adults but are now believed to be under 18. The girls are in state custody.
The discovery takes the number of children taken from the ranch controlled by the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints to 462. The number has been climbing since the state swept all the children off the ranch nearly three weeks ago.
Of the children taken into custody, roughly 260 remain at the San Angelo Coliseum. The others were bused to foster facilities around the state.ate.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2001109/posts FC, do you have the complete list?
The complaint originated in Colorado by some black woman. The comparison you ask??:: the one is prosecuted while the other which is several magnitudes larger is ignored. You are also making many presumptions without proof of malice.
“You are completely incapable of understanding the term “statutory rape”.
These girls were bred to be sex slaves and were raped by perverted old men.
I am quite sure when such a thing is found in other areas of the country it is proscuted with great enthusiasm.
You apparently approve of this sex slave system, since you want to just throw up your hands and let these girls continue to be abused, because other MIGHT be somewhere else.”
I know what statutory rape is and across the country it is happening to the tune of thousands to hundreds of thousands and is not prosecuted—you need to check what is going on in every inner city in the country. Your presumption of breeding for sex slaves is without foundation from the evidence I have seen.
Have any of the girls complained to the authorities about being forced into pregnancy by elderly lechers? No? Then evidently their condition was a choice they were able to make. Something the girls in this cult could not have done—make choices.””
I see no proof of denial of free choice in this case. What is being denied is women having their children confiscated like property of the state. I am not buying this is the right thing to do—my sense is these women love their children.
Raping a 14 year old is, however, against the law.””
Where is the proof of rape. These girls were married—how is that rape?
Thought I read about a 16 year old girl in that nutball cult with four kids. Even if she knocked 'em out one after the other the oldest she could've been when she started was 11. ...maybe 12.
You are also misinformed and uninformed with no concept of the age of consent, polygamy which is illegal and other assorted issues being debated by adults on this thread.
Buh bye!
An adult male engaing in intercourse with an individual under the age of 16 in the state of Texas is rape.
These girls were married—how is that rape?
Setting aside the fact that there was no legal marriage involved, do you really believe that the simple fact that a man is married to a woman makes it impossible for him to be guilty of raping her?
They were NOT MARRIED!!
They were plural “wives”.
Remember:
“Women have no constitutional right not to be raped and beaten.”-Freeper name redacted.
Golly,
the had no say so in getting married,
They didn’t choose their husbands....
so that plus them being 14 makes it rape.
Well,
toss in those that have whined that it’s because women vote (Freeper name redacted also) and gee, are we seeing a trend here?
What are you talking about?
I don’t like separating young children from their mothers.
Runaways...prostitution...rape. I don’t think your analogy illustrates anything.
The parents can’t be identified. They have lied repeatedly.
From all reports, some of those children don’t have parents there, as they were taken from other compounds. And that brings in the federal and international charges....
Why do three simple questions make you so uncomfortable? I defended no one. Actually, I made no argument whatsoever.
Being nasty, old and drooling is not against the law. Rape is. Does this really seem like a rape investigation?
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