Thank you for having the courage to post this article and thank you for taking it on the chin here on FR. You done us proud. The Constitution may still be alive after all.
I think it is very unlikely that a higher court will overturn this ruling because CPS blew it by raiding the ranch in the first place on a false report and by holding adult women captive, being falsely accused of being minor children - not to mention treating the entire community as one family instead of individual families and individuals.
“I think it is very unlikely that a higher court will overturn this ruling because CPS blew it by raiding the ranch in the first place on a false report and by holding adult women captive, being falsely accused of being minor children - not to mention treating the entire community as one family instead of individual families and individuals.”
So what you are saying Saundra is that the FLDS are saints without blemish. Way to prove our point that you are an apologist for polygamy and the patriarchal nightmare of Warren Jeffs.
I have no doubt the FLDS can escape on legalisms. Now which of you brave folks will defend patriarchal polygamy that REQUIRES the ejection of lost boys and the impregnation of young girls by older men as a core doctrine?
I think the case fell apart when the women didn't agree to testify against their husbands, even at the prospect of losing their children. All it will take is a single women who agrees to testify that she was abused and the FLDS are toast.
The CPS officials have to be in shock that they don't have a single witness yet. I am amazed too, that they haven't managed to coerce anyone either. The longer this goes on the more I tend to think that this is a well prepared group of FLDS'ers.