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SAN ANGELO, Texas (AP) — The number of children in Texas custody after being taken from a polygamist retreat now stands at 462 because officials believe another 25 mothers from the compound are under 18.
Child Protective Services spokesman Darrell Azar says the girls initially claimed to be adults but are now in state custody. Earlier they had been staying voluntarily with their children at a shelter at the San Angelo Coliseum.
The official number of children taken from the ranch controlled by the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints has been rising since a state raid three weeks ago. One reason is that some mothers under 18 claimed to be adults.
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this is where we're supposed to completely forget that the State effectively said, "if you want to see your children, you have to say that you're a minor."
april 20, 2008 link...
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Child welfare officials allowed adult mothers with children ages 4 and younger to stay together when the state took custody of the rest of the children from the ranch. Now, only mothers younger than 18 will be allowed to remain with their children once the sampling is complete.
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sometime ago the CPS told these women they couldn't see their kids unless they went to a shelter for abused women. lo and behold, days later reports rang out that "a number" of women had entered abused womens shelters.
Then they tell these women that they're to be separated from the children aged 4 and under unless they're minors, and lo and behold we find that a whole bunch of these women are now claiming to be minors. Bear in mind that the State has said it can't determine how old these kids (and adults) are, hence the only way they have of ascertaining that this pack of girls who now claim to be under 18 are under 18 is that the girls claim it to be so.
now if you were a 22 year old girl (this includes you, sike) who has never worn make-up, never drank caffeine, never drank alcohol, never smoked cigarettes, etc., etc....ie, if you were a 20 year old girl who could very easily pass for 17 and someone said to you "if you want to see your baby daughter, you have to say that you are 18....."
Would you a) hand your baby girl over to some stranger that you've been long taught to greatly distrust; or b) lie and stay with your daughter?
You would lie and you would stay with your daughter is what you would do, and in doing so you would provide ammo to the state to make the case that underaged women are being sexually abused.
Be very assured that the choice these 18+ mothers are faced with has crossed the State's mind -- what the State is doing is using the love these women have for their children against them.
that's fucking sick, psychotic behavior and prima facie evidence that however imperiled these children may be with the flds, they are now in the hands of an even sicker, more dispicable group of people.