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The heavy hand of the govt. Bare-knuckled mercies. No one should be surprised.
What these victims need, each and every one, is an advocate, a friend, a fellow human being; and time to decompress.
Instead they’re getting separated, relocated, redistributed, invasively examined, threatened, and stripped of their possessions.
Every woman should be reunited with her children and taken in by a foster family, and I don’t mean people on the govt payroll. Just leave them alone for about six months, let them adjust gradually to freedom and self-sovereignty.
Meanwhile, the men charged with, or accused of abuse should get restraining orders so they cannot contact or influence their alleged victims.
Guarantee the situations will be a whole lot clearer by Thanksgiving.
The govt should be doing nothing for the ones it calls victims, except advertising for foster families to step up and open their arms.

San Angelo, a city of about 80,000 population, has plenty of motels where the FLDS women and children could be held. Placing them in 19th Century calvary barracks rather than standard motel rooms is clearly a publicity stunt on the part of the CPS and the law enforcement agencies to hold them up as anachronisms, especially as the women were dressed in their Victorian era clothing. This would be more difficult to do if they were at a Best Western or an Econo Lodge.

Every woman should be reunited with her children and taken in by a foster family

That's a lovely idea, but how exactly is the state supposed to accomplish that when the women and children are all constantly changing their stories about who their parents/children are? This obfuscation is being done at the behest of the male leaders, who have trained the women and children to deal with outsiders this way, and until the cell phones were taken, were continuing to reinforce this training.

Of course, when people like you react to this situation by blaming the state, you're playing right into the hands of the male leaders of this sick cult. One of the first things the state did was start interviewing the children and women to try to identify parent-child relationships, but they were prevented from doing so. Accordingly, for now, they've avoiding separating anybody to the extent possible, using just two temporary housing facilities since it was impossible to find one large enough to keep the entire group together. So now the women are complaining that it's too crowded, but if the state tried to relieve the crowding by splitting the group further, over an additional location or two, they'd promptly (AFTER the moves) start wailing that women had been separated from their children (the same children they refused to claim as their own when they were questioned).