Perhaps a fubared frame.
The Governor’s mansion in TX just burned down. I wonder if there is a connection.
Those children should never have been taken away from the parents to begin with.
Title says, “parents.” But the article refers only to “mothers.” Not both parents.
How can you "escape" if you aren't being held against your will? And how can you be held against your will without charges being filed?
No just a bunch of weirdness. Wanting those kids back in that nutty situation is insane.
It is one thing to individually and genericly “wnat the child with its parent”. It’s another thing to want to turn kids over to a heretical pack of cultists looking to “spiritually wed” their 12 year old daughters off to nasty old farts.
So now we know all those stories about the LEO’s having observed this or that at the compound and deciding to remove the children were lies also. They went there intending to remove the children from the start.
Gov. Perry KUDOS!!!
This is a very confounding set of events.
1) You have the multiple marriage and underage sex thing, both against the law; and rightfully so IMO. Laws on the books, clear path to prosecute all offenders.
2) You have a bunch of men (FLDS) who have designed a way of acting out, documenting and communicating about said behaviors in such a way that makes it nearly impossible to prosecute.
3) Prosecutors become frustrated and overreach; take custody of the children with scant if any *real* evidence of a crime. This is sad but true if you truly believe in innocent until proven guilty.
4) As a result of overreaching, the victims become the ones being punished and held against their will. The would be offenders in this case are left at home to settle with satisfying their sexual proclivities with the women of age.
5) Public cries out about the treatment of the children by authorities and right back to the love nest they go.
The prosecutors need warrants for the arrest of the true offenders here, but how to prove the crimes? I don’t blame the governor one bit for asking them to get the hell out of Texas. It’s a cruel hoax being played out at the expense of innocents - boys and girls.
Best of luck on judgment day to anyone defending this as a religious practice.
NOTHING explains why four days elapsed between the call and the attempted rescue. This was sufficient time to track the source of the calls and would have been an absolute necessity to guard against the possibility that the victim was mistaken about her location.
How do those of you who suggest that we are "molester defenders" explain this delay and the lack of attention to the source of the call?
[The Texas governor's] office had received 449 messages opposed to the removal of the children and just 32 from people who supported it.
An "anybody can call our office" response is hardly the valid indication of public support as indicated by the article's headline.
Considering the source, I would be inclined to chalk this article up to yet another example of MSM bias combined with readership pandering.
The news guy calls the FLDS children “polygamous children”:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoeYQmwmN-Y