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Return Those Children

By ⋅ May 30, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

The Texas High Court ruled in favor of the Mormon families, and ordered them to be returned in a reasonable time frame.

You Had No Right

By ⋅ May 22, 2008 ⋅ 4 comments

So says an appeals court: An appeals court has ruled that Texas had no right to seize hundreds of children from polygamous sect. What’s more odious is that it is now reported that half the “mothers” that CPS moved to foster care have now been declared adults:

Yet Another Mormon Update

By ⋅ May 20, 2008 ⋅ 2 comments

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 [...]

Mormon Update – Mental Health Staff

By ⋅ May 13, 2008 ⋅ One comment

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:

Update on the Mormon Children

By ⋅ May 6, 2008 ⋅ One comment

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.

When Children Are Taken Away

By ⋅ April 25, 2008 ⋅ 14 comments

A call is made at night from a place three states away by a person who has a history of making claims of abuse1.  Claims are made that young people are are being forced into marriage and sex, though at worst they’re probably consenting minors.  Regardless of the current moral acceptance of teacher/student sex, homosexual [...]

The Wedding that Almost Wasn’t

By ⋅ October 27, 2006 ⋅ 5 comments

Juliana Redd wanted to marry Perry Myres in a ceremony at a Mormon temple, and her parents did not want her to– for reasons that CNN doesn’t give. So, what did they do? They kidnapped her! They told her that they were taking her shopping for the wedding, and made her miss her rehearsal dinner. [...]

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