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Originally Posted by Jack.Kerr
...you will NEVER see the government going in and seizing children, placing them in the custody of the state, and interviewing them to determine which adult males should be arrested...not on the scale that it was done in this case..
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This seems like a case of large scale suspected abuse, in which a religion happens to be involved. You see the state act similarly all the time in cases that don't involve religion. Children are taken from abusive homes fairly regularly. Where there are foster and adoptive parents that abuse or are suspected of abusing a larger number of children - those children are taken from the home at a larger scale. The only reason you so rarely see something like this done at such a scale is because it's rare to see abuse suspected at a scale like this. If abuse was suspected at an orphanage with 400 kids, you'd see the same thing as you see here.
I haven't been following the case as closely as some of ya'll. For those who have been following it, it sounds like the raid was precipitated by an anonymous phone call? Who made the phone call - was it the 16 year old girl, or was it a guy who is suspected of fathering children by a 16 year old girl?