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You seem to have made up your mind about this, despite the recent admission that many of the "minors" who were lying about their ages were in fact telling the truth and are adults. Can't you spot the pattern of CPS failing to see the truth when it is in front of them and accusing the women of lying when they have been telling the truth? The CPS owes you an explanation, since the basis for their original claim of people lying about their ages is proven to be, at least partially, FALSE. Yet you persist in the claim that the women were lying, knowing that the CPS was completely wrong in many cases.

And you persist to close your eyes about this. Look, here's an excerpt from the Mormon-owned Deseret News newspaper published May 23, 2008:

During grueling questioning on the witness stand, Louisa Jessop answered, "I don't know" to many questions CPS lawyers posed to her, including where she lived before, how she came to be there, and who lived in the home with her. Testimony revealed she lived most recently in a home with YFZ Ranch leader Merrill Jessop and his son Dan, who is her husband. But Jessop struggled to name anyone else who lived in the home, aside from Merrill Jessop's wife Barbara and her own husband, Dan, and her children...Asked if she would allow her 3-year-old daughter to marry at age 14, Jessop replied, "No. Not right now.” http://www.deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,700228606,00.html

Colofornian said: "And you persist to close your eyes about this."

What would you do in the situation you imagine she is in? Do your suspicions justify the outrage of holding adult women against their will while denying the validity of identification which is now recognized to be legitimate?

Evasive testimony, if that's what it was, is something she has chosen to do. Supporting the illegal acts of the CPS is something YOU have chosen to do.

In her case, any suspicion leads you to believe the worst. In the case of the CPS, proof of outrageous denial of human rights gets a shrug. You continue to believe that CPS is simply incompetent and not evil.

What will your opinion be if, at the end of this incident, all that can be claimed is that several people have been proven to be living in unofficial polygamous relationships, but there is no proof of rape, sexual abuse, non-consensual marriage, or illegal underage marriage? Will it be sufficient that this supposed "polygamous sect" is in fact a polygamous sect?

Will all the outrageous justifications for action be just fine with you? What do you expect that life will be like for the rest of us when that becomes the standard for the authorities; that unsubstantiated accusations of any kind can be used to examine every aspect of a person's life?