Flutterby™! : Texas Mormon sect wins in Texas Supreme Court 2008-05-30 10:01:25.602699+00

Texas Mormon sect wins in Texas Supreme Court

2008-05-30 10:01:25.602699+00 by radix 7 comments

The kids by and large have to be returned. This is a full endorsement of the lower court verdict. I'm not sure how long it will be before children can be returned. I don't think that the <18 girls who are pregnant will be returned. The state is still pending their DNA tests to figure out relations and prove bigamy. So this is not the end but it is a significant precedent (in Texas caselaw anyways) wrt child custody.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080529/D90VIO000.html

Stunning - I cringe when I think of the psychological dmage done to all those children by the foster parent program where you pack the kids in and the state pays you, PER CHILD.

I would be livid. The Court properly said that the state must present evidence os a particular nature about each child it feels is in danger. Turns out the actual number of children is low - sounds about like the same rate of incidence of the general population.

The employees of the state CPS have been brainwashed or were injured themselves and that drives them to excess IMO. I suggest that if a person has been injured as a child they would not be allowed to work in CPS and spread their anger to others, destroying lives in their failed quest to right the wrongs of the world.

I could do that but it would involve betrayal of trust so I won't, and I am not sure it would ever be enough. And you know, I notice how that is the thing picked to comment on - and I wonder why..

diane, that "<18" looks like one of those "men" with a beard who got his "wife" back.

ziffle. you kill me. i've got to know, did your parents teach you this nonsense you spout?

you must have been abused as a child and placed in foster care to be so negative of the foster parent program and CPS. my best friend is a CPS supervisor here in MAYBERRY! she isn't damaged or brainwashed, she has a master's degree and is working on another PLUS working as CPS supervisor. if anything, she should be on valium everyday with the garbage she has to straighten out from our good parents of mayberry who are not good parents.

i am a foster parent. i love being a foster parent. i make the road easier for my foster children. i have adopted two foster siblings. i love all my kids and they love me. my foster agency is a good agency that puts all children's needs and welfare first. we have great foster parents!

i'd like to see proof behind your claims of children being "packed in". unless it is a sibling group of 4, no foster home can have more than 3 foster children in the home and they all have to have their own beds.

you are a drama queen. the only who has been traumatized is you! you have taken headlines and blown them out of proportion. you have made up tabloid gossip. puhleaze!

#Comment Bigamy's not so much the issue made: 2008-05-31 16:41:55.142125+00 by: pknox

So a lot of people seem to be latching onto the bigamy aspect of the thing, which seems to be the issue that's got legs 'cause it's "weird". But that's doesn't seem to be the real underlying issue in the case.

The reason that there is so much fuss about the Jeffords communities is that they have created a culture that condones and encourages raping girls. The fact that they do so using the institution of "marriage" as a moral band-aid for the practice is really a side issue that is getting far more press than it should.

It would be a similar situation if the coverage of Enron's abuses had focused entirely on the extravagant spending of its executives as opposed to the fact that they'd bilked their investors out of huge amounts of money (yes, there was coverage of the extravagances, but I believe that, at the time, more focus was given to the actual crimes involved.)