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Girl reunites with mother - but no contact with FLDS leader
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I am glad this girl is with her mom, I am glad she is being protected from anyone that would hurt her. If a person did hurt her I hope he gets justice handed to him.
We keep hearing that there was "other evidence of abuse", but no explanation of what that might be. Is it the same type of evidence that kept adults in custody as minors? Is it that kind of evidence?
If there are specific cases of abuse, treat them on a case by case basis, as is being done for this girl. That is the correct approach.
Way to go CPS.......the child has to keep away from Warren Jeffs. The guy is behind bars several hundred miles away for the next ten years at a minimum.
The other guy has 1700 acres to occupy his time.
So the stall lasted an extra couple of days and cost how much more money. Is the other guy even on the ranch or he "vacationing" in Mexico?
I think we can figure out the "relationship."
I'm glad the kids GENERALLY are being returned. But I'm not glad about this girl. If she has been sexually abused, it was very likely with her mothers knowledge. She didn't protect her daughter before. Will she now?
Focus! This is not about religion or false prophets or Gods and spirits, etc. OK? Also try to stop trashing people's faith religion etc. Moreover, if you want your religion trashed like you are doing to the FLDS, then simply mention it here and I am sure many will oblige you. Just focus on the facts in evidence. Avoid the rumors. Avoid following your hysterical emotions and fears. Focus on the facts in evidence. OK?
Re transplant.
Yep....eliminate the child labor...no more kids helping on the farm, that should shut down half the farms in Texas. I guess we can hire all the illegals that are out of jobs in the housing industry.
It's sad you continue to blindly follow a convicted felon who enjoys "reassigning" families (i.e. kidnapping the children from their fathers and forcing their mother to "marry" and have sex with another man, not of their choosing).
You are confused. Warren Jeffs is a false prophet. No woman should ever be forced to marry a old man. It's better to marry and find a young man of ones own age and choice. Much more fulfilling.
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Apparently, the girl is being �helped� against her will. From the NY Times: �Willie Jessop, a spokesman for the F.L.D.S. group, said that to his knowledge there was no credible evidence that accusations of sexual abuse relating to the child in the court order were true. He said the girl�s lawyer was pursuing �an agenda,� and that the girl�s mother had tried to find other counsel.�
Many Christian saints were imprisoned. Those here castigating the victims of CPS arrogance are not Christians. Their sense of right and wrong seems to come not from any holy teachings, but from watching too much Law & Order, watching too much creative getting around civil liberties to convict people even if they�re innocent.
What a shock that Willie doesn't believe that Warren could be guilty of child-abuse.
CPS may have over-stepped their authority in removing all of the children, but the individual cases of FLDS men who have been abusing young girls through forced underage marriages are starting to come out.
It wouldn't surprise most people if Willie's name is near the top of that list.
The great spiritual leaders throughout history have been charged, and many convicted, of breaking existing civil laws in order to live higher ones.
I would also be interested to know where people get the idea that there is a certain type of person that God calls to be a "prophet".
A little research on prophets shows a very diverse bunch of folks, and indicate that God really doesn't ask anyone else's opinion on who he puts in that position.
Beyond this, just because one man at the compound was an abuser does not give you the right to assume all the men were abusers.
Do you people see where this is going? Expanding civil agencies by giving them police powers is in the communist manifesto. Do you really think this is limited to this "cult"? They just made a convenient excuse, something to make the jagged pill of losing your rights easier to swallow (yea, saving the babies tends to do that).
Janet: please know, not everyone on the "outside" is of the outside. Just because some of us live more in the world does not mean we live more of it.
"Warren Jeff's remarks about black people were cruel, unkind, untrue, and unjust..."
Maybe he was only talking about Rosita Swinton.
As a 23-year-old woman with unrestricted internet access, you should look up Warren Jeffs' videotaped confession in which he said:
"I am not the prophet. I never was the prophet, and I have been deceived by the powers of evil."
also look up statements he made in phone conversations several days earlier where he said
"that he lost his priesthood 31 years ago after being "immoral" with a sister and daughter."
Words from Jeffs' own lips.
Their house of worship violated and ransacked
Detained without cause
Carted away by an antagonistic religius group
Days of torment in the concentration camp
Seeing their mothers humilated and abused
Hours on end of interrogation
The violation of the "physical exams"
Their fellow detainees spirited away in the middle of the night
Finally being wrenched from the arms of their sobbing mothers
Finding themselves suddenly alone with their tormentors
Chased down and caught by stone-faced CPS matrons
Shipped off as far away from their mothers as the geography of Texas allowed
Weeks and weeks of waiting in misery
Now returned to homes and schools that can be invaded at any hour of the day by the very people who are responsible for their horror.
What will they take from this experience as they grow into adulthood?
That this is the justice of the outside world?
The justice that put Warren Jeffs into prison?
Could you expect them to see it any other way?
What have you done, Texas?
I am so very glad the children are back with their mothers. I hope they heal quickly and smiles return to their faces. Every child need's their mother to hug and kiss them when they wake up and when they go to bed. They need to be safe. The children should of stayed home and they should have taken the men out in buses.
"look up Warren Jeffs' videotaped confession"
Not a confession, but a confidential conversation between Jeffs and his family.
How is it that a personal conversation between Jeffs and his family is available on the internet?
What Jane believes, or what Jeffs has done, is no concern of yours. What should concern you and every other citizen who believe he/she lives in a free country is this:
THE RELEASE BY A SITTING JUDGE OF THE PERSONAL, CONFIDENTIAL COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN A DEFENDANT IN HIS COURTROOM AND HIS FAMILY MEMBERS.
It may be true that Jeffs sexually abused his daughter and sister, but this has not been proven. On the other hand, this judge has abused every man, woman and child in America, and this has been proven.
That there are good and bad people both inside and outside the YFZ compound and, perhaps, a little perspective that not everything they've been told about the outside world is true.
Some of the children and mothers may have even discovered that they have a right to make choices regarding their own futures; that they don't have to live the rest of their lives dominated by men who use them to fulfill their own desires and fantasies.
From News8Austin Texas:
"We had read that they had a fear of technology, so we took down our computer lab, and the first night one of the mothers pulled out her iPod and asked where she could dock it," VanOsselar said. "It surprised us because we didn't expect them to be so technology savvy," she said.
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So now there are several mothers that aren't returning to the ranch. I was hoping there would be more (perhaps there will be), so the children could have a real future instead of spending their whole lives watering flowers. Big world out there. Be good if they had some choices in life.
Maybe the kids will now get more than an 8th grade education. Now that would be outstanding.