[alexamenos]

more stories breaking of absurd CPS behavior that consistently demonstrates that the CPS doesn't give a damn about those kids but is instead trying to simply break the will of the FLDS parents. it's disgusting....summarizing and synthesizing.....

1. The DFPS (CPS) raided the YFZ ranch on the basis of a call from the ranch by a 16 year old girl who claimed that she was being sexually abused by a man named Dale Barlow. The caller was actually a 33 year old woman in Colorado and Dale Barlow hasn't set foot in Texas in years, if ever.

2. While executing the first and second warrants (the second being dependent upon the first hoax warrant), the CPS rounded up 460 some-odd kids because they saw, or claim to have seen, underaged girls who were pregnant (among other reasons, none of which were as serious). Two women have given birth while in the CPS's custody. They are both adults in monogamous marriages.

3. Through various media outlets, the CPS and Texas law enforcement agencies have made several salacious allegations about the practices of the FLDS. These allegations have been gross exaggerations in those rare instances where they had any basis in fact.

4. The most persistent and credible charge is that the FLDS "forces underaged girls to marry." There is absolutely no evidence of a pervasive practice of underage girls (ie, 15 or under) being forced into marriage by the FLDS.

5. There are instances of girls (4, perhaps 5) getting married at the age of 16. Whether any law has broken in these cases is disputable, and these cases are rare enough that they can and should be dealt with on a case by case basis (ie, not by rounding up 460 kids).

6. The CPS does not allege that all 460+ children have been physically or sexually abused.

7. Texas laws tell us under what circumstances the CPS may take children from their parents. A contention that religious beliefs lead to abuse is not one of those circumstances. Hence, the CPS has unlawfully taken children who have not been physically (sexually) abused and who are not in any imminent danger of being abused from their parents.

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which brings us up to date....

8. By every report, the FLDS children were healthy, well cared for and well loved while at the YFZ. Their current situations in foster homes scattered across the State of Texas, however, are highly conducive to all manner of trauma and abuse.

9. This thing is just getting started. The CPS is not going to do an about face and say "We're sorry, we were wrong. Come take your children home." Instead they're going to fight this tooth and nail, do everything they can to prevent the FLDS parents without regard to what is just.