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Number of children in Texas custody rises some young mothers are actually under 18
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Thomas Jefferson
Forget the children for a minute as they will come through this. Heaven help America.
"When an opponent declares, 'I will not come over to your side.' I calmly say, 'Your child belongs to us already� What are you? You will pass on. Your descendants, however, now stand in the new camp. In a short time they will know nothing else but this new community.'"
How many times must history repeat itself?
The FLDS Church recently excommunicated over 400 teenage boys, some as young as 13, for offenses such as dating and listening to rock music. The real reason for these excommunications is that there are not enough women for each FLDS male to receive three or more wives.
The boys were just as at risk of abuse as the girls, it was just a different type of abuse, being abandoned simply because they were competition for the older men.
There was in fact NO imminent harm to any of the children, except possibly to the actual child brides and other girls in the same age range. Only those should have been taken into state custody. The rest of the children are being punished just for association with the real criminals, the men. The authorities claim the mothers and children are helpless victims, yet they are victimizing them even further. They are teaching the children that the T in Texas stands for Tyranny.
Lets hope they rule in the mothers favor on Tuesday or all parents in Txas are in danger. Teenage mothers all over Texas look out we will take you from your parents and after your children are 12 months old we will put them in foster care.
After that we will go into every home in America and make sure all parents are raising the children the way the CPS sees fit
A lot of those children might not have either biological parent even at YFZ. Remember that Jeffs was filling the compound with hand-picked children ages 6 and under.
According to those who have escaped, a lot of those women have been separated from their initial husbands and been reassigned to other men. I believe the reason they don't ever mention the fathers in these interviews is that the biological fathers are off somewhere in St. George "repenting from afar," because they were kicked out.
YFZ is the US Taliban. They still follow Warren Jeffs. They are anti-education. How much do you think you could learn from any of the women who have been interviewed? Have you heard them speak? They're like simpletons with no sense of self or independent thought. I'm still convinced that when the educational assessments of the children come back, it will show that the children are far behind where they should be.
And yes, Deseret News gives the best coverage on this.
What do you FLDS people have to fear?! Maybe the proven guilty part??!!!
Since the YFZ Ranch is controlled by the same men who control Hilldale and Colorado City, how kids are treated in Utah and Arizona has a direct correlation to how kids are treated at YFZ. If Warren Jeffs can boot kids out of Colorado City, force young girls to marry old men in Hilldale, and reassign women to new husbands anywhere he chooses, he can do the same thing in Texas. The FLDS in Texas follow the same marching orders.
All for a hoax and the fact that some of their neighboors are breaking the law.
You are willing to defend Nazis. Why not FLDS?
When the owner of this newspaper issues statements refuting the Texas judge's comments about similarities between the LDS and FLDS, the DN should not support that confusion by listing Texas stories in the Utah section.
If police went in that ranch looking for one girl
didnt find her and left and said well we search the ranch up and down and we didnt find Sarah but found
possible 30 or more pregnant mothers or already with child under age you all would be screaming at teh top of your lungs that texas didnt do anything to protect those kids.. let the system try to work
If Texas screwed up we will all know soon enough
but also ask yourself why are not all these parents rushing to give DNA they say there worried it will be used in criminal trial.. well why woul dthey think that is they hadnt been doing anything wrong?
when all said and done we may found out that even the older woman has given birth when they were underage
How can they do this, you asked?
Have you not heard of the Japanese internment during WWII?
Thousands of teen FLDS boys have been thrown out. You don't hear about that in the Amish community.
The owner of the DN is free to publish whatever stories in whatever section the owner sees fit. It's called freedom of the press. It's mentioned somewhere in the U.S. Constitution.
Read a different newspaper if you don't like it.
they are feeding the members living in arizona and utah and also Warren Jeffs
The DNA test is a invasion of privacy and a violation of constitutional rights.
If Texas wants to know which kids belong to whom, all they need do is to return them all to their homes and they will sort it out. Demanding DNA tests is nothing more or less than trying to gather incriminating evidence. No one has to "testify" (i.e., provide incriminating evidence) against themselves.
Wish I would have saved the article.
The attorney stated he was the ACLU has always been for child rights but feel TEXASS has cross the lines on our freedom.
I do wish they would do a little more research on the flaws of the CPS and its poor history of placing children in foster homes .
If there is anyone on the blogs that can explain why these cases haven't been separated out, I would like to hear it. Maybe the DNA testing is so they can do that, but I would like to hear a logical explanation.
Looking at this objectively, I think it's more than a little hypocritical (and certainly myopic) for us in the LDS Church to be critical of others (particularly in the media) for inaccurately lumping the FLDS and other polygomist groups as "Mormons." Given the prominence of the DesNews on this event, can we blame them for making that mistake?
We've heard much talk lately about our obligation as members of the LDS Church to take opportunities to quell misconceptions about our Church. Just this past weekend, I attended an event where Elder Ballard spoke on this very subject. If this is the case, why are we working aginst ourselves on this effort?
As one who lives outside Utah, I find this very frustrating.
"Under cross-examination, state child-welfare investigator Angie Voss conceded there have been no allegations of abuse against babies, prepubescent girls or any boys.
But her agency, Child Protective Services, contends that the teachings of the FLDS � to marry shortly after puberty, have as many children as possible and obey their fathers or their prophet, imprisoned leader Warren Jeffs � amount to abuse."
Will other religious families be next? Many religions encourage their young people not to put off marriage, have many children, and obey church leaders. Is this also abuse Ms. Voss?
Michelle Roberts also writes:
"Eugene Volokh, a UCLA law professor, said courts have generally held that a parent's belief system cannot, in itself, justify a child's removal. He said, for example, that a parent might teach his child that smoking marijuana is acceptable, but only when he helps the child buy pot does he cross the line.
"The general view of the legal system is until there is an imminent risk of harm or actual harm, you can't" take the children, Volokh said.
Let's hope the TX appeals court at least releases the FLDS prepubescent children.
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How can then take these 2 and 3 year olds away from thier mothers and think that it is good for the kids?
This situation should scare everyone in America!