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52 girls removed from FLDS compound in Texas

tried to develop a relationship with members: you can kiss this good bye now... Thanks CPS.

Child Protective Service: An oxymoron to end all oxymorons. These people, in all states, don't cae about the childen. They care about their rules and regulations, office politics, promotions and power.
To protect the children would mean kepig children AWAY FROM CPS.

I'm curious as to why the newspaper owned by the LDS Church insists on using the FLDS moniker for this organization. The fundamental LDS Church is The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints which fact has been oft repeated by LDS Church leaders.

Taking away other people's children is the tried and true technique majorities to suppress the cultural and religious beliefs of minorities. Fabricating a concern about child welfare is a tried and true excuse for the police to force themselves onto private property.

One wonders when our society will ever progress to the point where people can mind their own business and let other people live as they wish. Polygamy does not always automatically equate to forced marriages or child abuse.

If those people moved to Texas looking for tolerance and the right to be left alone, they sure picked the wrong place!

Is this typical due process in the united states these days? I guess the raid is part of the investigation. Hopefully we don't get video of law enforcement officer shooting indescribably at buildings like we did waco. With of coarse no shots being fired back.

AMused, you would say when CPS takes a child out of a house where they have been molested and abused or in this case married to someone they don't want to be married to, it would have been better for that child to remain in the house? I'm sure there are other circumstances and stories, but I would dare say CPS does a lot of good.

You forgot money. CPS also receives more money when they remove a child from a family than when they keep the family together. Hardly an incentive to do the right thing, I would think.

And all this began over a hundred years ago. When it became more important for Utah to become a State rather than the faithful following their religion, they gave up polygamy. The FLDS didn't. Remember the LDS part of their name says it all. We criticize them for sticking to the fundamentals and in the same breath we criticize our government for not sticking to the Constitution. Who was right... man or God?

to Brent Brown: I strongly suspect the reason the paper is using FLDS is because that's the name of the Church they are speaking of! I'm guessing it's incorporated and is probably registered somewhere. The last I checked no one organization had a legal strangle hold on any of the words involved.

it is tough and sensitive subject, but what can you do if there is actual proof that children are being abused? State Government has to get involve if children are being subjected to abuse. They can't be bystanders. They system may not be perfect but I would rather it than to have no order at all...

re. Brent Brown
I think your information is almost 120 years outdated. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints ended the practice of polygamy in 1890. The Fundamentalist LDS Church, based in Colorado City and Hildale are not affiliated in any way. That religious sect chose to call themselves the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints; that was not a decision of Deseret Morning News.

just to clarify what you were saying. You are saying the FLDS is not the LDS Church as often repeated by the Leaders.... Thanks!!

You want to bash CPS, but the SECOND that a child is abused to the point of death, WHO'S the first one blamed for not doing something? CPS!

You can't have it both ways, people.

This wacko cult is NOT associated with, nor is it a 'branch' or 'off-shoot' or in any other way tied in with the true LDS Church. They may call themselves 'Fundamentalist' LDS, but they are not even similar. The LDS church abandoned the belief in and practice of polygamy over 100 years ago and living in secret, secure compounds goes entirely against the premise of the Church in every way.

Your sarcasm is pathetic. I have worked with CPS. You don't have a clue. The situations I have seen beggar discription. They have a huge caseload and take flak from people like you. You lie. What is sad is most of the things they are allowed to do is after the fact because of people like you. You are the problem.

To Brent Brown, we know which side you're on. That's your opinion and your opinion only. The truth resides elsewhere.

Yes, I live in Texas and the authorities were told to go in here years ago. This is probably too late. This sect has a problem and it has to do with underage children. Both male and female. The females are underage and pressed into arranged marriages. The surplus males are driven off because they would be competition for the alpha males.

Some people are forever clueless. Try reading the news reports.

Go DPS of Texas. What took you so long?

If indeed a firl called in a complaint, law enforcement was duty bound to investigate it - unless of course you think women and girls are so unimportant in the scheme of things that the insular privacy of the group is more important that their safety or freedom.

Do you have a clue about anything? "money"?

those who work for CPS DON'T GET THAT MONEY, it goes to the kids, STRICTLY THE KIDS. CPS workers work for pittance, they work for NO RAISES, they work because they value children's lives when their parents are too high, stoned, or stupid to take care of them appropriately. CPS workers do not get "commission" for removing children from ausive homes. And by the way---it's A JUDGE THAT REMOVES THEM, NOT THE CPS workers!

No CPS worker can just go into a home, school, etc and snatch up a child without a written warrant from a judge. A JUDGE has to order that they remove the child.

(Try researching and understanding the situation before you tout lies.)

I am suprised that the "Empire" did not send in
"Imperial Stoorm Troopers", like Ms. Goose Step,
Janet Reno did at Waco. By the way, she said she
was burning, I mean, concerned about the welfare
of the children also. Sounds like the "Empire"
is doing a trial run. Get ready for a "HOT" time
in the "Compound" soon. Must distract the peasents
from the mess, our vaunted leaders have wrought.

As a child who was removed from an abusive home by CPS I will say that they do an AMAZING job! For those of you have never been in a situation like this my advise to you is to shut up! Abuse be it physical or sexual is not something to take lightly and I dare each of you to do the job that CPS does half as well as they do!

As long as people dabble with Polygamy there will always be conflicts. It's a man made practice and will always promote evil doings. I believe there is abuse in FLDS and LDS. You guys need to deal with the real world and quit abusing woman.

I support CPS, if children are abused someone needs to step in, in fact, I will go one step further, if a family member or neighbor, or someone you know is breaking the law, it is your civic duty to report it to law enforcement. If everyone "ratted" out the criminals, I think we would see a dramatic drop in crime overall. Especially drug abuse and gang violence. People can live in peace in this country but for some darn reason people choose to look the other way when someone they know is committing a crime. So to you Amused and Og stop breaking the law by making child abuse my problem and I�ll stop calling CPS.