[familyop]

"The court said that although five girls had become pregnant at age 15 or 16, the state gave no evidence about the circumstances of the pregnancies. It noted that minors as young as 16 can wed in Texas with parental consent, and even younger children can marry if a court approves it...Of the 31 sect members CPS once said were underage mothers, 15 have been reclassified as adults — one was 27 years old — and an attorney for a 14-year-old girl said in court that she had no children and was not pregnant, as officials previously asserted."

Wow.

[Walkingfeather]

You can flippin bet this will cost the state of texas 100’s of millions. Then they will sue in fed. court.

[TexasCajun]

Any parents' worst nightmare is some pissed off neighbor or relative contacting CPS, lying about child abuse in your home.

Then you have some self-righteous liberal government bureaucrat wanting to take your children away from you even if the accusations are proved false.

[AnalogReigns]

I must admit, that while I believe in the 1st Amendment’s freedom of religion, when a state can’t step in and rescue children from as a clearly pernicious cult such as this, it’s a very sad day—for them, and us.

[LaineyDee]

Wow

Yup. Never make assumptions based on hearsay...

[pnh102]

I heard that there were indeed some underage girls who were pregnant at the time of the raid. What will become of the criminal cases involved with these victims?

[230FMJ]

Sounds like someone in CPS was sure of the “facts” before any real investigation was done.

[mylife]

It was reported here that one of the accused was 28.

[mylife]

Hundreds of lawyers crammed into a courtroom and nearby auditorium

This sure is good business for the lawyers and gubmint. /s

[Sprite518]

Michale Savage was the first talk show host to call this one out. I listen to Boortz, Rush, Hannity, and Savage. Savage beat them all.

[stockpirate]

I feek vindicated. Several anti-LDS posters here on FR trashed me for saying peoples rights were being violated even accusing me of being in favour of sexual abuse of children.

I wonder why they haven’t posted on these new threads?

[moneyrunner]

Great story. It's beginning to resemble the Duke Lacrosse Rape case. HERE is a roundup of some of the press reports and blogger comments.

[tom h]

I for one was firmly convinced that the seizure of these 400 children was the most heinous act of Government ever in these United States.

It is pretty clear that Texas CPS had been plotting against the compound for years and were waiting for their pretext. It turned out to be a staged call -- do we know yet if CPS was behind the fraudulent call? The head of CPS wanted to imprint her career forever in the annals of her field.

This was worse than the seizure of Elian Gonzalez from his bed that one morning back in 1999 or 2000.

Yes, those FLDS folks live strange lives but those children need their mother sand the home they are being raised in. Any other outcome means we are becoming a police state.

I hope FLDS sues the bloody pants off Texas CPS, and I hope the case goes to the Supreme Court. CPS departments in every state are allowed to seize children under very weak pretext and that is wrong.

[B-Chan]

Ho-lee cow. Somebody over at the ol’ AG’s office in Austin has got some ‘splainin’ to do. Ouch.

[deport]

Apparently there will be an appeal by the CPS. Now that doesn’t mean the Supreme Court will hear the appeal. We’ll know soon would be my guess.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2020282/posts?

AUSTIN – Texas Child Protective Services will ask the state’s highest court to keep a polygamist sect’s children in state custody, following a Thursday appeals court ruling that ordered the youngsters be returned to their homes.

Texas Supreme Court spokesman Osler McCarthy said attorneys for the state called Friday morning and said they’d be “filing an action in this court” later in the day.

[DannyTN]