SAN ANGELO, Tex., May 30, 2008
Sect Case Judge Won't Sign Reunion Order
Court Refuses To Sign Agreement To Reunite Polygamist Sect Parents With Children
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Play CBS Video Video Polygamist Sect Case Unclear It remains unclear whether anxious parents from the polygamist sect compound in El Dorado will re-obtain custody of their children. Hari Sreenivasan reports from Texas.
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Martha Emack, one of the parents from from the Yearning For Zion Ranch at Eldorado, Texas, approaches a news conference outside the Texas Capitol Thursday, May 29, 2008, in Austin, Texas. It was after the Texas Supreme Court ruled that child welfare officials overstepped their authority and the children from a polygamist sect's ranch should go back to their parents. (AP Photo/Harry Cabluck)
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Photo Essay Separation Anxiety Some mothers in polygamist sect separated from children as part of abuse investigation.
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Photo Essay Polygamist Compound Raid Secret calls from alleged abuse victim lead to raid of religious sect's compound.
Anxious members of the El Dorado polygamist sect came to court Friday with hopes of being reunited with their children, who were taken from the Yearning for Zion Ranch by the state's Child Protective Services nearly two months ago. The agreement would have returned more than 400 children to their parents by the end of next week.
But the court set preconditions for the children's release, including:
And not all the children would be allowed to go home, as lawyers expect Child Protective Services to keep custody of a handful of girls that they believe were younger than the legal age of 16 when they married or became pregnant.
"It appears to be a fair compromise to me," said Court Coordinator Guy Choate. "I mean, the children are going back … that's what everyone said they wanted. Everyone said they wanted the child not to be injured, not to be harmed, not to be subject to child sexual abuse. If you take everyone at their word this order will ensure that occurs."
Several lawyers pleaded with the court to reunite the kids this weekend, but the court said it was better to take the time, and get everything done right - putting the reunions on hold.
The key investigation now appears focused on Warren Jeffs, the imprisoned leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. An affidavit filed in Arizona charges that Jeffs married two 12-year-old girls and two 14-year-old girls before his arrest two years ago.
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See all 143 Comments(Parents must be photographed when they pick up their child.)
If you had a goofy hairdo, would you want to be photographed? Even more importantly, why is this a requirement for the return of children illegally removed from their parents home? Having at one time in my life been removed from my parents custody, unfortunately I have some experience. My folks never got their pictures taken. Must be to record the fashion of the day since they are "different" and this phenomenon must be chronicled for posterity.
(Parents must agree to unannounced home visits as Child Protective Services continues to investigate sexual abuse.)
Again blanket permission for intrusion into a home. Only those cases where there is EVIDENCE!!!!! should unannounced access to the children be required just as in any other case where there is EVIDENCE!!!!!
(Hopefully they will use the DNA to match up the kids to their parents so they make sure the right kids go to the right parents!)
This one is a little worrisome. DNA samples were taken from Warren Jeffs. Now we''ll find out how many of the 400+ are really his. After all, isn%u2019t this truly what this is all about?
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dragonwagon...
yes because in your son''s school they give the boys condoms and the girls contraception...does not mean that they are not having s e x..or older men there are not having s e x with teenage girls...what is you iq level??? duh!!! talk about being dellusional..lol
i bet your child is rude like you taught him and you are...it doesn''t matter if you child is a staight A etc etc..there are professors killers,DAs'' pedophiles...don''t get so high on your horses and your pride about your child...it''s what he will have to answer to God at the end of his life that counts not his degrees...and I m seeing your poor boy is not getting the good example from a such small minded person like you...who think so high of vain glories of this sick world...i have better things to do than put my hopes in worldly *** like you teach your son...you definitely need parental class and a class of humilty from God to tame your ugly pride...of course I don''t expect you to figure out..dragonfly..
Kids do NOT belong to the state. At least not yet!
Posted by bhoogren
Janet Reno showed us all how evil families and parents can be.
There should be no due process or constitutional protection of parents.
As a precondition of child bearing the couple should have to sign a waiver of rights as they are contributing another useful citizen to this country and we the people want that citizen to be raised the RIGHT way.
The courts and the CPS know what the right way is.
Believe the child, The parents are liars when they deny child abuse.
Only the government can be trusted in these matters.
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Thanks for the jokes. Needed the laugh. Especially the one about trusting the government. Like Iraq, you mean?
Believe the child, The parents are liars when they deny child abuse.
Only the government can be trusted in these matters.
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Posted by bhoogren at 05:14 PM : May 31, 2008
+ report abuse
What are you.. a member of the American Taliban?? These girls are being abused and those boys are being TAUGHT to abuse them.. YOU don''t need a court or the government to tell you that.. YOU can SEE it if you take off the blinders... GOD you people are the slime of this earth!! Sieg Heil and AMEN
Believe the child, The parents are liars when they deny child abuse.
Only the government can be trusted in these matters.
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Posted by bhoogren at 05:14 PM : May 31, 2008
+ report abuse
Kind of difficult for them to deny when a 16 year old girl has 3 children, don''t you think???
She would have likely been raped at the age of twelve or so, using simple mathematics......
We the public will pay the costs.
hah- hope youre joking about my kind. furthest thing from a morman or flds... more interested in abuse of civil liberties here.
believe me i have been complaining about the last 8 yrs as well as before then. things have magnified quickly since 9-11 but civil rights and liberties have been slowly eroding over a long time... long before even nixon who was a disaster in this regard... its not likely the establishment of either the repubs or the dems is likely to start giving up thier power and control over society (weve obviously fallen for it), and its all whitewashed in ''what we can do for you'' while pilferring your paychecks.
If the child denies there was abuse then the child is protecting the parents.
There should be no due process or constitutional protection of parents.
As a precondition of child bearing the couple should have to sign a waiver of rights as they are contributing another useful citizen to this country and we the people want that citizen to be raised the RIGHT way.
The courts and the CPS know what the right way is.
Believe the child, The parents are liars when they deny child abuse.
Only the government can be trusted in these matters.
Posted by merlgrey at 04:36 PM : May 31, 2008
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What did you expect? Bush has wlaked all over the Constitution for 8 yars and now you''re just strating to complain?
O'' I know why, it wasn''t affecting your kind until now.
Women need equal rights.
I do not believe in cps *** or judge walter''s ***..what i mean is that I changedmy mind about FLDS, when I listened to the testimony of a girl who escaped from FLDS and another boy on a different tv channel..these have nothing to do with cps...the girl testified that the older men do trade younger girls and that if someone breaks teh rule among the men...they expel him and his wives and children are reassign to other men!!! how would like to be one of these women or kids?? pushed around and traded like aninals!!!
I can only believe what ex FLDS says..I am not pro cps since I know for them, it''s not about the kds but power..but I do believe the girl and boy who have suffered from them...there was a case in Colorado where an FLDS member a cop was arrested and jailed for marrying an underage girl while he already had 2 wives!!! how sick is this?? that was the girls that escaped and gave testimony on cnn!!! she had 3 kids by the age of 19!!!
q- the tribe that was just made news in brazil.... likely girls/boys are operating as adults at puberty... living in thier society as seems fit... and everyone wants to leave them alone... is that child abuse?
show how immature and childish you are...suck to have people like you wrting stuoid comments here...this is for adults...who have wisdom and good judgment..why don''t you try the Disney blog for a change?? then you can bully some kids
most likely people has had a neighbor pedophole engaing in child pornorgraphy on their computers and no one knew about it...like the recent story of the clown arrested for childpornography performed in Thailand...
you are from a small town, so you have a smallmind...and you are not fit to be a parent because you underestimate danger to your kids...you need parenting class
did they publish of all the underage teenage girls, covered up by parents too?
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