Posted on 05/22/2008 10:46:31 AM PDT by ElkGroveDan
SAN ANGELO, Texas - A state appellate court has ruled that child welfare officials had no right to seize more than 400 children living at a polygamist sect's ranch.
The Third Court of Appeals in Austin ruled that the grounds for removing the children were "legally and factually insufficient" under Texas law. They did not immediately order the return of the children.
Child welfare officials removed the children on the grounds that the sect pushed underage girls into marriage and sex and trained boys to become future perpetrators.
The appellate court ruled the chaotic hearing held last month did not demonstrate the children were in any immediate danger, the only measure of taking children from their homes without court proceedings.
Now the CPS has acknowledged that 11 of their “children” were adults, and another 8 will be found to be adults today.
And you may have missed it, but the “14-year-old” who was claimed to be pregnant has proven she is not pregnant and never had a child.
But I presume those posting here will continue to claim that 14-17 year olds were pregnant.
I won’t say that everything CPS says is a lie. But it is clear that CPS is not a reliable source for information.
Well said.
I don’t think the court can simply say they should all go home. CPS may have information sufficient to keep SOME of the kids. But now maybe they will get a real hearing, not the sham hearing and a bad ruling by a judge.
Do you consider parents who hand their underage daughters over to statutory rapists as unfit?
I don't really see what "telling the future" has to do with it.
Some of the older kids were being raped by the men.
So separate the kids from the men.
How this justifies separating babies from mothers I'll never understand.
You seem to be hung up on wanting punitive measures for the mothers including permanent separation from their babies and young children, without any proof and without even any observed threat to the younger children.
That's weird.
And you have proof that your scenario is true, I suppose?
LDS is different than FLDS. It’s the F folks who are for polygamy.
Do YOU?
There’s a lot of juicy allegations being thrown about, but there’s a distinct absence of facts supporting ‘em.
I was thinking more along the lines of cruel, insane, or evil.
He is 15 now, and undoubtedly thoroughly indoctrinated to Castro's Marxist paradise.
Except that the state treated ALL the parents the same without even bothering to investigate where the call came from, who made it, and if THAT person was in danger. And NO ONE has even dared to say that the small children were in danger of sexual molestation, only the teenage girls. So why are they taking newborn infants away from their mothers? BECAUSE THEY CAN! Screw the rights of the parents to a fair hearing. Just threat them ALL the same because they LOOK the same and “we don’t like what they are doing”!
Bunch of hypocrites!
Put me on the “excoriated” list too.
I refuse to be indoctrinated.
Bump!
My guess is the FLDS members who's rights have been so egregiously violated.
Their 'compound' is going to rival the Taj Mahal when the last of the lawsuits are settled.
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try again she was actually 27 years old and provide Arizona DL and birth certificate day one. But still classified as child so they could interview her under the color of law.
Have you even considered the possiblity that the investigators exaggerated or even out-right lied to the judge in order to get that warrant?
PS - Fewer than 100 years ago, in many parts of this country, it was COMMON for 14 year old girls to be married.
Watch how quick these backward people learn “HOW TO FIND AN ATTORNEY” who wants to make some big bucks.
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