This is legal?
The judge doesn’t have to sign off on the order but the kids must be returned or they will be returned by force.
Bring ‘em Young University, back in business.
It just means the church will end up owning an even bigger chunk of Texas when it’s all said and done.
***A Texas judge today refused to sign an order returning more than 300 children seized from a polygamist community, saying she wanted the mothers involved to sign the order first.***
If they refuse to sign then the Texas SC order still stands and the kids must be returned. No court can force a signature to circumvent a standing order from a higher court.
The stench from the bench. What an arrogant a**hole.
It seems to be a general rule: judges consider themselves above all rule of law and order, absolute tyrants within their courtrooms, royalty in most twisted way possible. Reform is needed - at all levels.
wow
I don't care which side of the coin anyone is on but this judge is wrong and needs a good reaming out by the State Supreme Court.
This b*tch is just playing standard “black robed tyrant” games.
She’s been gutted so she decides to act like a child herself.
Not unexpected.
The judge will face sanctions for defying the Texas Supreme Court.
Rather unclever.
IMO, it would have been cheaper for the State of Texas if they had just sent in the goon squads, burned down the church with all the people inside, plowed up all the FLDS land, crushed their vehicles and left smoking debris.
This would allow CPS to dust off their hands and congratulate each other with awards and bonuses and declare that at least the chilllldrennnn were not abused by a bunch of sex perverts.
Now, we have hundreds of families who have been rounded up and put in concentration camps against their wills.....THE WOMEN AND CHILDREN DIDN'T DO ANYTHING WRONG!
The perps are a few old perverted farts...and as far as I can tell none of these people are anywhere near jail.
As a Texas taxpayer, we can hope that the FLDS detainees will "turn the other cheek", go home, never to be heard from again.
....but somehow I have a feeling that they are not that forgiving....somebody must pay...and that....would be me and millions of other Texans.
Meanwhile, the CPS jerk who thought all this up gets off scott free.....grrrrrrrrrr.
Aren’t the DNA tests about to be released? Perhaps the children should stay right where they are till we can answer the popular question, “Who’s your daddy?” No sense allowing the children to go back to parents who might be arrested for sexual abuse next week.
http://www.statesman.com/news/content/gen/ap/Polygamist_Retreat.html
The judge wanted
Walther had wanted to add restrictions to the agreement worked out by the parents’ attorneys and Texas Child Protective Services, but the parents’ attorneys argued that she didn’t have the authority.
The judge then said she would sign the initial document, but only after all 38 mothers involved in the case the high court ruled on signed it first.
skip a few paragraphs:
Under the deal CPS released, the families won’t be able to leave Texas until Aug. 31 but would be allowed to move back to the ranch. It also calls for parenting classes and visits by CPS to interview children and parents in the child abuse investigation.
Walther wanted to remove the August deadline and provide for psychological evaluations of the children. She also wanted it specified that parents can’t travel more than 60 miles from their residence without 48 hours’ notice. She also wanted CPS to have access to the ranch and the children at all times necessary for any investigation.
Damned if you do and damned if you don't
This whole business has really got to me emotionally. I now hear that the FLDS are demanding voting registration. They are now going to, no doubt be manipulated into other things.
Something just is not right.
This is all starting to sound to me like local authorities ran amuck. I have lived in small towns and sparsly populated counties all my life and I have seen locals cook things up at the coffee shop to deal with folks they think need to be dealt with and they think they are the final authority on what is right and what needs to be done. I am wondering if that is what happened here to begin with and now this judge is playing to the Good Ol’ Boys that run that area. This could get real interesting before all is said and done.
The sad thing is if FLDS needed to be dealt with, it needed to be done properly so it would stick.
Someone needs to begin the IMPEACHMENT hearings.
What a nightmare; some of those young girls are going back home to be raped and with their own mothers’ consent. Those who were trying to prevent this must be feeling ill.