I only care about the kids. I think this judge knows full well what is going on and is doing her darndest to help those kids! Scream law at me all you want but those people are breaking laws by living the way they do. It needs to be stopped! I’m sick to death of the victims rights being trampled.
As said earlier, provide proof, get a conviction, and you are free to hang them from the closest mesquite.
Until then, let them go.
As others have pointed out, there is a legal definition of "polygamy", and it just may be that none of the FLDS is guilty of that crime.
If underage girls are being "married" under the same circumstances, then no legal marriage exists.
If the underage girl is then sexually abused by an older man, that may well be the crime of rape. Jeffs is in prison because he was convicted of having been an accomplice to one such rape.
How do you intend to prove that the women in the FLDS have been accomplices to rape?
actually the case was overturned on “abuse of discretion”. Not an easy standard for an appeal victory. Trial judges, especially family court, are give WIDE latitude to find the facts of a case. In this situation the TX SC said the judge did not do the evidentiary hearings required by law to be able to make such a finding of fact and conclusions of law.
Just as the first call turned out to be an obvious fake (see also Nifong and Duke university) it is crucial the couts and especially cps follow the due process rules or the will cause the guilty to go free.