The Texas High Court ruled in favor of the Mormon families, and ordered them to be returned in a reasonable time frame.
It seems that part of the reasoning the CPS used to keep the Mormon children was that they witnessed pregnant girls. Unfortunately, of the three that they claimed to have seen, none of them are underage. When Texas child welfare authorities released statistics showing nearly 60 percent of the teen girls taken from a polygamist [...]
I know that this is no longer monitored by the media, they’ve since moved on (probably to something about Britney or one of the other single name celebrities), but there is still action on the Mormon children front:
Just in case you were wondering: An arrest warrant has been dropped for a man thought to be the husband of a teenage girl whose report of abuse triggered a raid on a polygamous sect’s Texas compound, authorities said Friday.
Again, what justifies the government taking a child from their parents? Could it be as simple as not knowing what “Hard Lemonade” is? The way police and child protection workers figure it, Ratte should have known that what a Comerica Park vendor handed over when Ratte ordered a lemonade for his boy three Saturdays ago [...]
As I hope I’ve made clear in my post on the Mormons who lost their children, I’m very protective on the bond between a child and parent. I’m very suspicious of government agencies that claim to have our children’s best interest at heart, but then take children from their homes– sometimes permanently. And I’ve read [...]