Texas: FLDS mothers in a 'conspiracy of silence,' cannot challenge children's removal
Posted May 10th, 2008 by rhino
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Until women from a polygamous sect "unequivocally" identify their offspring, they have no standing to contest a judge's decision to remove the children from a west Texas ranch, state officials argue.
The Texas Department of Family and Protective Services contends in a court filing released today that FLDS mothers have engaged in a "conspiracy of silence" that forced the en masse custody hearings they now want to do over.
The document was filed in response to a petition filed with the Third Court of Appeals in Austin on behalf of 50 women from the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
The state filing lists 468 children as being in custody, something a spokesman said today was a typographical error. There are 464 children in custody.
The mothers' petition, filed by Texas RioGrande Legal Aid (TRLA), sought to reunite them with their children as they work to comply with any service plan devised by the state.
But Texas DFPS argues the pleadings do not identify which children belong to each mother, which the women have "repeatedly declined to do" and calls into question their right to dispute the state action.
"Neither the courts nor the department should be forced to play guessing games when the safety and well-being of these children are at stake,"
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thsi is more insantiy ....what planet am I on??
WHAT ABOUT THE MOTHERS WHOM GAVE BIRTH AND AND HAD THEIR CHILDREN RIPPED OUT OF THEIR ARMS???
No identification my ass....They are f***ing liars!!!!
You are still on the same
You are still on the same planet. Unfortunately you are in Nazi Germany instead of the United states of America. This proves we have no rights left.
Where are some good attorneys that want some national attention? If they were trying to take a "celebrity's" kids this would be on the msm non-stop.
Look at all the media attention when Michael Jackson dangled his kid over a balcony. Well I am sure that child is soooo much more important than an entire community (not compound) whose lives have been totally f'd up. If I were a member of the LDS I would tell them I needed a different church if they can't come to the aid of these people. I think it would be ironic justice if there were floods of anonymous calls of child abuse on all the cops and cps parents that were involved in this kidnapping. I am pretty sure all those cops' kids have access to their parents' loaded guns, tear gas and tasers.. If that isn't endangerment, what is?
Excellent revolutionary
Excellent revolutionary tactic
why havent americans attcked these officials and rescued these
kids???