Mormon ruling.?

No one is above the law - neither the FLDS nor the Texas legal authorities, nor Child Protective Services.

It will be a sad day in Texas history, if it turns out that Child Protective Services abused the FLDS children more than their parents did. The prosecutor isn't completely innocent either; they were quick to believe false accusations and on the basis of these false accusations acted with extreme prejudice, and a heavy hand. Sadly, United States history is rife with such abuses. Religious bigotry is alive and well. If a young women has been forced into marriage, then it is her right to contact the police and expect legal protection. It doesn't look like that is what happened here.

As a paralegal I think I look at court rulings a bit differently without all the emotions attached.

There is due process in this country and the rights of parents must be protected as well as the rights of children and the state.

Let the courts play this one out. We arent there. We dont know all the evidence being presented.

I doubt any judge wants to place kids back into harms way and its not like the FLDS group has a lot of judges in their back pockets.

You mean there's lots more polygamist sects in the Lone Star State? Or there's lots more underage girls being pressured or outright forced to marry dirty old men? Or lots more little kids being beaten for minor infractions? Or lots more females being brainwashed into believing that they are nothing in God's eyes unless they're married and mothers?

Admittedly some of that isn't illegal. But, polygamy d**n sure is! And so is sex with a minor.

And anyone who teaches little kids that these are swell, dandy fine ways to behave IS guilty of child abuse. Because either those kids spend their entire lives wrapped in the cotton wool of that ranch or they get a truly horribly rude awakening. Especially the boys who get kicked out so there's more females for the dirty old men. Or do you find the thought of that amusing and titillating?

Well... here's what I think... they've already had the opportunity to get the evidence they need. Remember, they are not trying to prosecute the women and children, it is the men who abuse them that are the target of this whole deal. They now have all of their marriage and birth records from the computer system in their temple, and DNA samples of a majority of the women and children.

It is the men who have abused underage girls, or who have abandoned their male children in surrounding communities that will ultimately be called to court.

As for a fair application of the law... I think anyone NOT on that compound who impregnated underage girls, or who abandoned male children on the street would be prosecuted.

I agree. I don't like that children are in that situation, but if they aren't being abused and they aren't being neglected then CPS had no right to remove them from those homes.

I agree with you. If there is abuse going on, then the state should direct its actions towards the perpetrators against whom they have EVIDENCE. But in this case, they just took ALL the children...as if everyone was guilty...without any evidence against any particular person.

They never even got the girl who reported being abused. I wonder if she ever existed.

These kids had been so indoctrinated with 'mormon baloney' that the really were shocked to been suddenly withdrawn from their so-call safe environment. They probably should have methodically removed them in a more gentle way..................I have no idea how though.

How many times does anyone have to TELL PEOPLE that the FLDS are NOT MORMONS???!!!!!

FLDS = not mormon

Just another reason why our justice system is a complete joke.