Comments about ‘FLDS couple signs tentative custody agreement’

the evidence should have been played out. just shows that sexual abuse was rife at the ranch and the members also knew about it as they didn't want it to be played out to the media.

why cant this all just end . use the teen girls and guys put them on the witness stand and MAKE them talk or make them realise that they'll have to go back to the ranch to face what was happening to them before

If Texas had hard, solid evidence, ya'all think they would have returned the kids? They are allowing the kids to live with the parents (both parents) in a 'facility'.

Texas has little or nothing to go on. They just wanted this one off the table and reachable. They have squat.

AUSTIN, Texas (KXAN) -- A man trusted to help children during a difficult time has been accused of sexually violating one.

Billy Dan Carroll, 53, was arrested for sexual assault Sunday after an 8-year-old girl said she had been victimized.

Carroll has been a Travis County court-appointed children's advocate for four years.

"This individual has been through an FBI fingerprint check, national criminal databases, state of Texas criminal databases, the CPS central registry

An example of the great CPS !!

The evidence of child abuse that the FLDS were hoping to hide is starting to come out. This will either force the FLDS to abandon their abusive practice of forced underage marriages, or this will drive them further underground.

Sexual exploitation of minors should not be allowed in any civilized society. It's time the FLDS stopped enslaving and abusing their children and give them the freedom of choice to choose how they want to live.

Forcing a young girl into an arranged marriage is nothing short of sexual slavery.

Even though her parents may have brain-washed their daughter into willing accepting this abuse because she has never been taught that she is entitled to make her own choice in the life-changing decision of choosing her own husband, it's still abuse.

An example that anybody can sexually abuse a child, including relatives, teachers, foster parents and PARENTS.

Which is why Texas should keep the FLDS children in protective custody until they're certain that it's safe for them to be returned to their parents.

In this case , the children WERE in protective custody by an agent of the CPS.
It's a case of who watches the watcher's.
The guy passed ALL the CPS investigations and now they find out that he has made a career of child molesting. This is not an unusual case. It happens all the time. Texas statistics show that over 50% of children in CPS care are ultimately molested.And this is REAL criminal molestation not some idealistic nonsense.

One infamous photgraph throws everybody for a looop. The fact remains that 25 of CPS count of underage mothers turned out to be adults.

I know that you were hoping they wouldn't be able to, but, CPS is slowly starting to build their case that sexual abuse of underage girls is taught, condoned and practiced at the YFZ ranch, which put the children in danger of being abused.

As much as you may try, your efforts to minimize every piece of evidence will be in vain.

I agree with Thomas.

Soon the evidence will begin to be revealed as the confiscated pitures and other print evidence from the ranch/compound is exposed.


That, and the DNA that will be availabe soon, will not paint a pretty picture.

CPS has trampled Texas law and the Constitution. The Appeals court ruling will be unanimously upheld.

When my sister was 16 she spent the summer living with her boyfiend. Me and my mom could do nothing to change her mind. Should she have been put into foster care?

TO Jane who said "why cant this all just end . use the teen girls and guys put them on the witness stand and MAKE them talk or make them realise that they'll have to go back to the ranch to face what was happening to them before".

Jane, the kids WANT to go back. So how to propose to MAKE THEM TALK?? Beat them? Toss their parents into prison until they say what you want them to say? Starve them? Make them live with Baptists until they are taught the RIGHT WAY? Separate them from their siblings and keep them from anyone they knew and loved?

I doubt all the children want to go back. After all, eight underage girls 'married' to men old enough to be their fathers were going to testify. The men waiting with bated breathe for their teeny bopper 'brides' to be returned to the little brothel on the prairie may be disappointed yet.

should keep the kids till they're 15...the FLDS would consider them too old to be desirable!!