From the San Antonio Express-News
Mental health workers sent to emergency shelters in San Angelo last month to help care for the hundreds of women and children removed from a polygamist sect's West Texas ranch have sharply criticized the Child Protective Services operation, saying it unnecessarily traumatized the families.
That worker was among three who reported that CPS workers lied to the mothers; one described it as a tactic to make separating them from their children go easier. Several said the mothers were denied access to their lawyers.
http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/TopStories/stories/MYSA051108.01A.mhmrreports.3a4fa3e.html
“That worker was among three who reported that CPS workers lied to the mothers;”
Why yes. You are absolutely correct. Three MHRH workers, who were out of their league, there as volunteers, and may have been the source of the reason why the women and children kept removing ID tags, or switching them.
They tried to hold onto the children, when the CPS decided to separate the women, from the children.
” one described it as a tactic to make separating them from their children go easier.”
Yes. That was the exact reason it was done. To keep their from being a terrible emotional, and possibly chaotic scene.
we are talking about 400 children, 400 lawyers, 100 some mothers, a staff of Baptist volunteers, a staff of MHRH volunteers, every CPS worker available in the entire state, and a bevy of reporters.
Among those who mentioned that is was ‘a lie (or omission) to keep a mess from becoming a disaster’, were some of the MHRH volunteers, and pretty much all the Baptists.
Hmmmmmm. I haven’t seen proof of that yet. IIRC, it was because they couldn’t ‘find’ their lawyer.
P.S. The MHRH were asked ‘not to return’ the next day, and their boss thinks they were all ‘dissed’, and he’s making a stink out of it.
He got the staff to submit ‘anonymous’ complaints to the BOD, of which he is a member, and he ‘read’ these to the BOD.
Even he admitted at least 2 of the ‘complaints’ stated the CPS workers were courteous and cooperative.
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““Several said the mothers were denied access to their lawyers.””
I said couldn’t find. Actually, I think it was because the lawyers went with the kids, and that is ‘how’ the interpretation came about. So still, they couldn’t find their lawyers, because they were in the other room with the kids.
You owe me a new keyboard... I asked for reliable sources.
Note the plural....
The source is neither reliable nor plural....