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Joyful reunion FLDS children can't get enough hugs as they join their mom
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Sign the petition to have her impeached. Google gopetition walther.
I think the article was written just the way it should have been. It is not a time to wonder about questions , It is a time to share the joy of a family back together again.
To the FLDS - I am so sorry this happened to you. I have prayed daily for you and especially for your children - I continue to pray that no real harm has come to them and that they are able to heal from the emotional abuse they suffered at the hands of the State of Texas and CPS. God forgive them.
Please post the pics that Abe helped take. :)
How can anyone rationalize the trauma not being covered in a more "newsworthy" way? At what point do we decide where "newsworthy" begis and common human DECENCY is thrown in the garbage can? How does the American general public allow this crime against humanity to take place without ther being more outrage?
It seems that 18 inditements are being considered by the grand jury, so the show will go on.
Re. Interloper: If you are refering to the Sarah in this article she is 37 years old and can make the decision about "spiritual" anything with whomever she wishes. Sarah may also worship as she pleases.
As far as her children, when they are of legal age they may marry whomever they please and at the age of 17 consent to sex with whomever they chose.
Not much can be done about the choices these people make.....it's still a free country.
I agree about Judge Walthers, she may be a fine judge in other respects but she needs to be removed from any interaction with this case. A judge is supposed to be impartial. She obviously isn't.
Go talk to Larry King who is happily married to someone LESS than half his age. And then get a life.
As for Warren Jeffs - she can "revere" him all she wants, just so she does not do anything he says that is counter to the law. People still have the right to follow and believe an idiot if they want to.
1) The husband had been kicked out of the church and told to leave his family behind, but came back to help his wife get the kids back.
2) She did not return to the ranch, but yet got a new home and job - sounds kind of permanent to me.
3) The story does not go into the future plans for this family. Is the husband coming back into the family? Will they ever return to the ranch? The reporter dropped the ball here. This family seems happy to start a new life.
Interesting!
Please save some of your vitriol for the sect leadership who set up this sick situation in the first place. We need to worry more about the abandoned boys and the cast off parents.
The childrens "natural father" and presumably legal father did have options. He could have persued a legal divorce and the court would have issued visitation and child support. Sarah the mother chose to go to the ranch and agreed in one form or fashion to be reassigned....a free choice.
As far as being illegally taken by the sect, the mother chose to take her children with her to the home of her new "spiritual" husband.
Free choice......decisions made by the mother and father of the children ...... noone illegally did anything except perhaps the mother and her bigamous act of living in some fashion with her new man.......but even then,the US supreme court has suggested that states rethink their bigamy laws and conform with consensual sex rulings....the times are changing.
"Newsworthy" indeed. For what, the National Enquirer? The FLDS have already made a formal statement regarding future marriages. Beyond that is not of our business.
Is CPS so used to seeing young girls so aged by abusive lifestyles that they can't get past the natural beauty of those who live clean?
You are a beautiful lady Sarah!
Listening to Carolyn Jessops testimony with regards to her escape from another FLDS community might be helpful to some who defend/attack this group.
Are ALL children being reunited with mothers?
How soon is it to happen?
And further, are the mothers and children to be reunited with fathers? When?
This will not be totally resolved until the families are reunited completely and CPS's wings are clipped.
I am disappointed to see those guilty of GENOCIDE feel they can require conditions.
The good news is agreements made under duress an coercion will probably not be legally inforcable.
I hope the Parents immediately ask their lawyers to pursue charges of GENOCIDE against Walther and CPS officials �. . so as to deter others from unlawful actions, when there is �NO evidence� under �color of law�.
For any of you interested in hearing the true story of Flora Jessop and why she has said the things she has said, go to thetruthwillprevail.com and read the article written by her appointed Guardian, Martha Barlow Jessop. It is a REAL eye-opener and explains exactly why Flora Jessop has said all of the things she has about the FLDS. She, too, should be held accountable for the lies she has told to help persecute the FLDS families.
1. Do you believe that a man must be married to 3 or more women in order to reach the highest level of heaven?
2. If so, since the natural ratio of men to women is 1:1, and since you live in a closed society that attracts VERY few new women, and since some of the men have a dozen or more wives, who decides which men are worthy of the available women?
3. What happens to the hundreds of boys/men for whom there are no women to marry? Do they have to abandon their faith and leave the FLDS community?
Wake up people! Most of the nonsense claimed about these poor people is just plain lies. The only thing wrong, that only some of them have done, is the polygamy. Compared to many things that US society considers acceptable, polygamy is pretty minor (but still illegal). All the other stuff is fiction. If Sarah was 36 and they thought she was 17, then the supposed 12 year-old pictured kissing Warren Jeffs must have actually been a 24 or 31 year old. That isn't nearly so salacious is it?
Wouldn�t you move to a different house it you thought is would help get the CPS Nazis to leave you alone? She can still travel to the YFZ Temple when she wants to.
Can one live in the world but not be of it? I know we can. I am LDS and I live everyday with people who think differently than I do. I don't hide from them. I have nothing to hide.
Sara, take this opportunity to grow and learn. This is a good thing for you and your children. Bloom where you are planted!!
I have to agree with you. The actress Demi Moore is somewhere around 24 years older than her husband. Some women like them younger as well. So what's the deal?
This entire family and those dear to them will be impacted by their story for generations. Some memories will be very happy. Some will be sad.
No one is immune, irrespective of their upbringing, from the joys and pains of life. It is just that they are different for each person.
God will take care of the long term issues, including polygamy.
Texas displayed a firm hand, but lives were spared!
It's time to move on and clam up about all the negative. We've heard it...now it's time to celebrate families like Sarah's and be grateful these children are back with their mother.
It's obvious they are well taken care of in this environment, and their mother has been very proactive in getting things in order so that her children will have the easiest possible transition.
This is a heartwarming story.
It's time to move forward and hope for the best for these children and mothers such as this Sarah.
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"To err on the side of the children" is a naturally applied deception made by those who profit by taking children from good parents. It is not in the interest of children to be separated unless the immediate threat of physical abuse can be shown before-hand. Some abuse cannot be predicted, regardless of how clairvoyant a CPS agent believes himself to be.