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FLDS raid costs surpass $14M

If the FLDS decide to sue for violated civil rights it could be closer to $150 Million.

It's going to surpass more than 14M by a long shot - wait til the lawsuits start piling up. FLDS has every precedent on their side. And who'll pay the price? Not the perpetrators, but the taxpayers.

When the FLDS sue for damages, it will be in the hundreds of millions of dollars. If they decide to go after the International Genocidal penalties, it could go into the Billions of dollars.

I'm glad I don't live there to help pay the bill.

Ooooops!

Texas considers this a bargain if it gets rid of Mormons.

Any dollar amount is worth it, when it comes to protection of children. That being said, if i remember right most ALL attorneys associated with representing the children were pro bono, (free) so i see no reason to pay high cost lawyers for pro bono work. Trust me, if this had been a reqular child abuse case, a Child wouldnt have been represented near as well by a pro bono lawyer.

Moniker
Dream on buddy!

What a total waste of money! I hope that to be fair, when the FLDS apply (sue) for their share of reinbursement, they also receive at least the same mileage and "moderate" hotel fees as did the perpetrators of crimes against them. The CPS should be penalized for a belief system promoting abuse of children. The proof is already there.

Well, it seems that the State of Texas certainly got its moneys worth but the cost of the DNA testing works out to abou $1,000 per person.

I guess with both the testing and administrative costs that's not too unreasonable. Where are the results of these tests? (Hint: Nothing incriminating, that's why they haven't been released.)

Still, that's a lot of money just to make a bunch of anti-FLDS haters happy; who says that government doesn't listen?

You'd think that after 14 million dollars, not to mention an informant in the YFZ Ranch for FOUR YEARS they would have found SOMETHING!

I HOPE THE FLDS SUES AND THE CPS PEOPLE WHO WERE RESPONSIBLE GO TO JAIL

Even with the all the piling costs the state and local authorities continue to accrue expenses on this case such as the "Summit" and on-going investigations (or more aptly "inquisition"). And I'm curious if all the "pre-raid" expenses were included in the figures given that were incured going back a few years as the local sherriff and others traveled about to "learn" of this new neighbor. (How insidious!). Texas has already earned itself some dubious distinctions among the U.S. states, and it should be ashamed. Someone needs to tell Texas to back off...D.O.J., anybody listening???

All the result of too big government minding the peoples business. The next time you vote take a good look at what your elected lawmakers have done to the constitution and vote accordingly. If they have voted against the constitution in any way vote them out. Don't listen to the media when they say a particular person "can't win".

I have posted several times that FLDS should file both a civil case in the federal court for damages, and file a civil rights complaint with the justice department for criminal action against all those state officials that were involved with the massive state wide conspiracy in this matter. Don't lay back and think that it will all go away. If they feel you are willing to act like a punching bag, you will got punched again....and again.

By the way, I am sick and tired of hearing Perry and other officials talk about "protecting" the children. Those innocent children are ,now,having nightmares and fears that they never previously experienced prior to being "protected" by the state. Protection of the children was never the objective. Running FLDS out of the state... and trying to grab more head lines by prosecuting another husband like Jeffs, was. Those hypocrites need witch hunts.

For the grand total of one underaged pregnancy...
Is texas willing to throw that much money into every underaged pregnancy in the state?

"'Any action taken to protect children is never misguided,' said Krista Piferrer, Perry's deputy press secretary."

For just a three-letter word, "any", has a very big and inclusive meaning.

I wonder if, in "any, she includes the raid on the Branch Davidian ranch back in April of 1993? Remember? That's where 54 adults and 21 children died in an all-comsuming fire.

Perhaps instead of the word "any action", she might prefer, "almost no action". I hope she can think of some exceptions. I sure can. Like, for example, taking 462 children away from their families based simply on the claims of some phone calls by a deranged prankster.

The people of Texas should be outraged by what the abuse of powers is costing them and the CPS and others are still on a witch hunt.
This may be a drop in the bucket when all is said and done. While forgiving people the FLDS will seek compensation from both Federal and State courts for their civil rights being trampled on.

How can the governor of Texas still feel that the CPS did the right thing after all the abuse the state laid on the innocent children.

I want the FLDS to sue but not for millions, it should be BILLIONS of dollars.

And all that money was and is being spent because the state of Texas listened to a couple of gossiping old women instead of checking out the facts.