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Court rules: No right to seize hundreds of children from FLDS

by politisite | May 22, 2008 at 09:41 am | 289 views | 4 comments | 10 recommendations

12:29 hrs CT - The Texas Courtof Appeals rules: No right to seize hundreds of children from FLDS. A news conferance will be held within a few minutes This effect 48 Mothers and the children.

FLDS Lawyers, Thanks the Court, The department failed to prove it's case. The was no eveidence of Danger to the children. The court was presented that the childen could be in danger. The court said that the court can not rule on potential of danger. It found no evidence of current danger.

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Judges: CPS improperly removed FLDS children

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A Texas agency improperly removed more than 450 children from a polygamist ranch in West Texas, an Austin appeals court ruled today.

The Texas Department of Family and Protective Services failed to prove that children at the YFZ Ranch were in danger and needed to be removed from their homes, the 3rd Texas Court of Appeals ruled.

In addition, the appellate court ruled that District Judge Barbara Walther abused her discretion by failing to return the children after three days of hearings last month.

“Even if one views the FLDS belief system as creating a danger of sexual abuse by grooming boys to be perpetrators of sexual abuse and raising girls to be victims of sexual abuse as the department contends, there is no evidence that this danger is ‘immediate’ or ‘urgent,’ as contemplated” by state law, the court opinion states.

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Rachel Nixon

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at 10:10 on May 22nd, 2008

politisite, good catch.

politisite

at 10:14 on May 22nd, 2008

Rachel, If you have read some of my comments about this issue, I had said there were leagl problems from the begining

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One thing, I understand that children may be being abused here, we have to be careful of 1st amendment rights. Even if I don't agree with the lifestyle. I don't want to see another Waco in America. Folks should be aware that most of the allegations at Waco were fabricated.

Rachel Nixon

at 10:19 on May 22nd, 2008

Hmm. So what happens now? Are the children returned?

duo

at 01:12 on May 23rd, 2008

Good Stuff! Are they serious!?? If Texas Courts give these children back, they need to re-evaluate every case where they ever removed a kid from any home and reconsider. What 15-year-old girl really wants to marry her grandfather's peer, who is already married to her best friend's sister, has 11 kids by her elderly aunt, and also married the younger sister of the 15-year-old boy she really likes (but can't dare show it or he will be sent away from the compound to live on the street)? Were the children offered any alternative but to go back into this living arrangement? Do they even know there's another way to live? Golly, gee! ##!!**++&&! Well, know this. If I am ever very sick -- feed me with a tube! If I am ever 14 again and living in Texas -- GET ME OUT OF THERE, PLEASE!

Mary