ok, so the state of texas in its infinite wisdom has determined that allegation = proof, hence fundie mormons must give up their children for an indeterminate amount of time, that amount of time being approximately equal to the amount of time it takes for the State of Texas to come up with a tortured rationale to keep the children for an even longer period of time....
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The children suffer behind an iron curtain of corrupt secrecy. That curtain was lifted a few years ago, long enough to get a brief but terrifying glimpse of what was being done by people who had placed themselves beyond accountability.
Scores of children were killed, poisoned, beaten, and otherwise abused each year. Child rape was terrifyingly common: The largest group of victims were between 12 and 15 years of age, but thirteen percent of the victims were three years old or younger.
An official investigation of this secretive system was undertaken, but soon foundered over obstructions thrown up by those who had the most to lose if the full truth were revealed. But before the portcullis was slammed shut, the investigator learned that a child being raised in that system was four times more likely to die of criminal violence than a child in the general population.
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mind you, the horrendously abusive system described above is not the system from which the CPS has saved these children, but rather the foster care system in the State of Texas, the system in which the CPS will place these children, notwithstanding that the state's own experts acknowledge that the FLDS children are healthy, much-loved and well behaved. Hence the State, in order to prevent any of these children from the horror that they might one day marry someone in their community, is sending these kids to strangers who may well "kill, poison, or beat" them.
"we're from the government, and we're here to help."
still the most frightening words ever spoken by any man.