Wow! What a mess.
Oh come on. After some experience in the foster care system, and the 24/7 filth on tv which they will see for the first time in their lives, never mind being trown to the wolves in the public school system; all the horror stories they were told by their multiple parents will seem true.
It's going to be a culture shock for them no matter how you look at it.
I thought this type of stuff only happened in communist countries.
"All that's going to happen in a courtroom," Van Deusen said. "The judge makes those decisions. We will make recommendations. The children's parents will have input. A judge has to consider all that and decide what's best for the children."
The outcomes of the hearings will be interesting. Hopefully, the courts can untangle the mess they have made out of the situation and get back to protecting the innocent and punishing the perps.
I pray for these dear sweet children...
And why should adult members of this cult not be charged with kidnapping the children of those parents cast out? They have taken them across state lines.
One good thing about this situation is that with even little children not knowing who their mothers are because there were so many “mothers” caring for them since birth, they will adjust to the new caregivers in foster care more readily than normal children would.
FLDS parents are probably non-violent pacifists, just guessing...but all *other* parents are going to see the System taking away breast-feeding babies from their mommies and think that “there’s nothing to lose by trying to keep our kids.”
It’s sort of like passing the death-penalty for driving 1 mph over 55mph; no one in their right mind would ever stop for a highway patrolman after such a law passed.