Comments on: Judge Ponders Fate Of Polygamist Sect Kids

416 Children Seized By Texas Authorities Moved To San Angelo Coliseum

[missyme2-2009]

singinrich, are you stupid?

[demwatcher]

I heard that the Dems were inquiring about those kids because they need fresh pages.

[missyme2-2009]

In this high tech and info world, you can''t tell me that sherriff didn''t know. He admitted it!!. They should take his badge and fire his arse. If it were one of my loved ones, I''d sue the State for allowing it. The authorities knew!! Only in Texas. Go figure. Sick ***. Illegal is illegal.

[mollydtt]

Kids that have never set foot outside of their compound would get sick even if they were at the Ritz. Let''s get real. Living in a bubble means you always have to live in that bubble. Back in the days when there really was a frontier, this would have been more feasible. But nowadays, even west Texas isn''t frontier anymore. The days of being able to hide are over.

[cpaide]

"The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will be the first to spend money helping these children and mothers."
Posted by Sadandhurt

ya, i really liked that statement president monson made condemning the government''s kidnapping and imprisonment of an entire town based on non-existent phone calls and abuse.

and the doctrines (the plurality of wives) came from bro. j. smith and still found in the current doctrine and covenants.

it''s the same thing that happened to the mormans in the 1800''s. glad you are either ignorant of morman history or think you are somehow better than these mormans and have washed your hands of this mess.

[cpaide]

"Texas bar officials said more than 350 lawyers from across the state have volunteered to represent the children free of charge."

ya, friendly attorneys representing infertile couples who want to adopt white children. isn''t there a law against stealing and selling children--even if they are white? or is that just for black folk?

[michellem99-2009]

What is there to ponder..there is nothing to ponder..It is there.

[beehive21-2009]

The constitution is under fire ,what you going to do,The state of Texas is practicing Nazism,what gives ?All the BS on the 16 yo Ghost ? taxpapers in Texas will be paying a lot of $$$$$$$$.Millions

[gnenne123]

ive been following this story this is very digusting i hope that justice will be served if not that would be very sad.if this was my daughter there would be aprice to apy.

[Marie Zarankevich]

ccfsdca -- While I was being sexually abused and raped, I looked quite healthy, clean, and cared for the entire time, but I WAS suffering the most horrible abuse a child could ever go through. -- It was never allowed to show on the surface. -- First rule of a pedophile, appearances are paramount. -- They do everything to protect themselves from any consequences.

[missyme2-2009]

ccfsdca, these women and children have been abused. The government hires criminal justice people to make sure they get caught. These "men" are no different than criminals and pedophiles.

[missyme2-2009]

How about that sheriff saying "we didn''t want to offend anyone''s civil rights"? What a croc, they knew what was happening to those children and the women. I think they ought to throw them in jail, place the women and children in intense counseling. This will serve as a warning to the other pedophiles out there who want to start a cult under the guise of religion. Take the sherrif''s badge while they''re at it.

[emelder]

It''s unbelievable that this can occur in the USA, with our Constitution and our Bill of Rights. How can authorities take away their cell phones? How can they tell adults if they go out, they cannot return to their children? This is America, for God''s sake. What''s Texas trying to do here?

[Marie Zarankevich]

Dear People, -- I was raped, by my father, at 9 years of age. -- What sexual betrayal in childhood does to a young girl is generational. -- The damage lasts the whole life, and continues into the next generation, and the next. -- To have someone you loved and depended on as a child misuse you in this way is a soul-killing experience. -- This is not cultural, or religious, it is quite personal, and it is extremely painful and crippling. -- Many of the women on that compound are probably carrying around the same pain and damages that their daughters have suffered more recently. -- Men, try to imagine being the sexual victim of your favorite aunt when you were a child. -- Perhaps you can understand, then. -- The religion is not at fault, it is the men providing the guiding light and authority who are to blame. -- It is entirely set up to satisfy their cravings and desires. -- There is no other motive. -- Please don''t try to make it into something it''s not.

[sadandhurt]

cpaide...
Please don''t associate what doesn''t exist... "the mormons" as you put it will get nothing and the church in NO WAY condones this behavior or these practices... The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will be the first to spend money helping these children and mothers. So please have the respect of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints members to not classify our beliefs and values with those that choose to branch off and create their own doctrines...
Thank You

[cpaide]

"Quite frankly, I''m not sure what we''re going to do," Texas District Judge Barbara Walther said

are there any non-lesbians involved with this case? the judge, the social workers, the texas rangers.

"the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, a renegade Mormon sect."

these are mainstream mormons--not renegades. they follow the teachings contained in the doctrine and covenants regarding the ''new and everlasting covenant, including the plurality of wives''

"historic Fort Concho where they had been staying to the San Angelo Coliseum"

is texas some kind of 3rd world country or what? this is a joke, right?

"Texas bar officials said more than 350 lawyers from across the state have volunteered to represent the children free of charge."

what kind souls! now we know who is behind all this. in the end, the mormans will collect MILLIONS in legal settlements, and it will ensure the propagation of polygamy for the next 200 years.

[kansas1946]

The state is accusing the sect of physically and sexually abusing the youngsters and wants to strip their parents of custody and place the children in foster care or put them up for adoption.
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That is a bunch of nonsense. These mothers were as much victims and the children were. Just get the mothers away from that controll, give them a little help with apartments, jobs, training, etc., and leave these children with their mothers if possible. It has got to be scarey enough for these kids without them being torn from their mothers. The problem seems to be the MEN in this situation, not the women and children. Can for once the state use some common sense.

[sadandhurt]

These children belong to loving families who value them and want them to have the best life they can.God is a Fair and Just God and he loves those children sooo much.Lets not forget about them when you are commenting on how terrible you think the state is being.If it were your child and your husbands were forcing them to have *** with them and having them bare children when they hit their teens i hope that you don''t really deep down in your heart believe that it is ok and that you have rights to them.We are protectors to our children and if we fail at that God will hold us responsible.HE WILL JUDGE us on how we take care of his most precious children and angels (it isn''t our right to be their parents, it is our privalage).To that 16 year old brave child of God.Bless you and i will personally help God pave your walk of Gold.A discusted reader who loves all of Gods children and would take all 416 children if i could.

[sadandhurt]

I am shocked at how many of you think this is ok..Lets remember a 16 year old girl called in to report this and she was being subjected to this by a 50 year old man.now i think her seat in heaven should be lined with gold for having the courage to do something about it and also for helping all those other victums.imagine if this were your daughter.This isn''t about having the right or choice to raise their children how they want.this is about the CHILDREN.where are their rights.God gave us FREE AGENCY and they have none.No child should be forced to live anyway just because their parents want to raise them that way.I hope the judge releases them to be adopted.their are families who can''t bare children and some of us who have a difficult time with it and i will be the first in line to adopt a child if that is the desicion.

[cattlekate]

By churches or cults embracing and or hiding their abuses they become organized crime in a religious front. Isn''''t there a whole Federal Office whose job it is to fight interstate organized crime, money laundering, kidnapping and slavery? The FDLS is guilty of of these criminal acts and more. Posted by yongamerica at 08:20 PM : Apr 14, 2008

EXCELLENT POST!

And I will add to the list - WELFARE FRAUD (so - where are the birth certificates of the children on welfare?) and TRAFFICING IN HUMAN TRADE.

These compounds are just like Cambodia, Nigeria, Malasia and other places which sell girls for six.

Only they have the Halo of "Christianity."