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The plans lay out a year-long process for being reunited with their children, identifying dozens of issues the parents must address. The plans warn that failure to cooperate could result in their children being placed in permanent state custody or put up for adoption.

This is the sick part. I didn't make it up.

It is sickening - a sickening persecution of people who have an unusual, but deeply held religious belief:

From the article:

They also agree Louisa Jessop, who gave birth last Monday to her third child, is 22 years old.

Both women are in monogamous marriages and their attorneys say none of the state's allegations fit their situations.

But the state, as laid out in the service plans, maintains that the couples and other FLDS parents "have chosen to be members of a community that appears to support systemic abuse of children."

Previously CPS claimed Ms. Jessup was a minor - even though she insisted she wasn't, and presented a drivers license and birth certificate as evidence of her age. CPS nevertheless insisted she had no proof of her age. Finally, they had to admit the obvious.

But now, even though they have before them a 22 year old woman married to a 24 year old man with several children born after she was 18 years of age, just because Ms. Jessop and her husband belong to a particular religion, the state refuses to return their children to them. If that doesn't fit the definition of "sickening" I don't know what would -- perhaps you need them to be stuffed into cattle cars and hauled off to a death camp before it bothers you, but for me this type of governmental conduct is a simply unacceptable abuse of the law.