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Day-old baby among 400 FLDS kids in custody--newborn son are sharing a mattress on a floor

I swear if there were any real freedom loving Americans left in Texas or in the surrounding areas they would be showing these articles to their neighbors and gathering up a posse to round up these Fricking officials and rescuing these children one by one!!! ----I MEAN SERIOUSLY WHAT WOULD THE ORIGINAL COLONISTS THE FIRST AMERICANS HAVE DONE ABOUT THIS?? They went to war over smaller issues than this!!!!

Day-old baby among 400 FLDS kids in custody
Louisa Jessop says she, newborn son are sharing a mattress on a floor

By Jenny Hoff and Mike Celizic
TODAYShow.com contributor
updated 6:49 p.m. PT, Tues., May. 13, 2008

Louisa Jessop's voice is small and precise and remarkably calm considering where she says she is calling from and what she's just been through.

On Monday, just a day earlier, the FLDS member and former resident of the Yearning for Zion ranch had given birth to a son, Richard, her third child. And now, she tells NBC News, she is in a small and bare room furnished with a foam mattress on the floor in a foster home in Austin, Texas. Her husband, Dan Jessop, is staying at a motel in town. Her other two children, Amber, 4, and Rolan, 2, are in a foster home under the custody of the Texas Child Protection Service (CPS).

"I would like to be with my children and my husband and live in a home where we can take care of them," she said in a telephone interview.
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Louisa Jessop's children were among the more than 400 who were taken from the Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints compound raided early last month by Texas law enforcement and CPS officials. She says she's 22 and has presented authorities with a driver's license and birth certificate to prove it. But CPS spokesman Chris Van Deusen told NBC that the department has classified her as a "disputed minor," the term used for FLDS women whose age has not been established to the department's satisfaction. Until her age is established, they are treating her as if she is a minor.

"They said I looked like I was under 18," she said.

And so Louisa Jessop is stuck. She's been told she can leave, but she has to leave her newborn son and her other two children in foster care. Or she can stay with her newborn son, but can no longer be with her other children.

Two police officers and two CPS officials were present to welcome Richard into his confused world at 11 a.m. Monday in an East Austin birthing center. Dan Jessop was allowed to visit immediately after the birth, but has not been told where Louisa and Richard are now staying. He was served papers saying, "The newborn child of a child is in the state's custody."

Louisa also thought she would be seperated from her newborn.

"They came here and told me they were going to take my little baby away from me," she said.

Before Louisa could be separated from Richard, the couple's attorney got a temporary restraining order to allow her to stay with him in the small room where both mother and infant sleep on the same mattress. A hearing is scheduled for Thursday to determine whether to continue the injunction.

Louisa Jessop stayed at the birthing center for just a few hours. By 9:30 p.m., she said, she was at a CPS office. From there she was taken to the foster home where she remains.

"The placement is appropriate and comfortable," the CPS spokesman told NBC.

In the meantime, the young woman says she is trying to improve her living quarters.

"I'm working on cleaning it up so we can have a healthy environment for the baby."

A reporter asked her what it's been like.

"I don't really know," she said. "I don't know - just quite the experience."

"Are you scared?"

A long silence followed. Finally, she said, "I'm not really scared because I know Heavenly Father will see us through."

Despite just having given birth, she says she's not uncomfortable. "I'm doing well myself. I feel like we've been a little abused by the CPS."

Van Deusen, the CPS spokesman, told NBC that the department is trying to determine the ages of all women who may be minors. Officials seized truckloads of records from the compound and have said that it has been very difficult just to sort out which children belong to which women. The commonality of surnames makes the task more difficult. After the raid, the department had said that it believed that 31 girls between the ages of 14-17 were either pregnant or mothers. At least one of those women have since been reclassified as being of legal age.

Louisa Jessop has contributed DNA for state-ordered testing and hopes that the question of her age is soon settled so that she can leave with her son. She said that she is Dan Jessop's only wife and that the couple had moved to the Eldorado, Texas ranch from the FLDS community on the Arizona-Utah border just a few months before the raid.

She said she was being treated kindly at the foster home, where a woman loaned her a cell phone so she could call NBC.

Within the FLDS community, Dan Jessop, 24, said, "Everybody has a strong interest in each other and everybody's children...Out here nobody cares at all from one family to the next."

When Louisa Jessop was asked what she does to pass the time she said, "Just taking care of my baby."

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Would this travisty actually

fall under one of the pieces of legislation already enacted?

I believe an answer to this is important here.

We know the Patriot Act was passed, but are just now feeling the full impact of that legislation. We don't have the right to info from our accuser?

Does this precedent fall under that or HB 1955 or some other bill?

These took away our final freedoms so was wondering thoughts from others.

I went to may bank yesterday to get a $100 cashiers check and had to give my drivers license. The cashier definitely knows me, but I saw her typing in numbers and info from my license when completing the process. For $100 bucks???? Was it because I gave her a hundred dollar bill? (I then took that opportunity to "teach" her about Real ID, HB 1955, etc etc etc. She said she heard something about an implanted chip - I verified that as well and said the license will already have a "chip" to track every move.

Also, in line while voting, a gentleman (from PA) said he was driving through W. VA, and was pulled over by a policeman. This man said he thought it was because he was on his cell phone at the time.

However, Cop told him it was because he had exceeded the speed limit by 6 mph. Cop then proceeded to ask to search his car. Man told him no and cop got belligerent. When man asked why he wanted to search his car, cop told him because he "looked like a terrorist"!

Now, some people may have such an appearance, but this man looked like upper middle class in his dress and presentation skills. He told the cop he did not have permission to search his car and that if he did he would have his attorney handle the matter. Thus, his car was not searched.

Another posted here about the check points that popped up recently in Kansas, and the cop, on the second stop, and remembering he would not give info requested previously, gave his a document where it says they have this right. He was having it checked into at that time.

Input please!

does everyone here realize they are setting a precedent

with this situtation, they are telling the masses that cps and the government can come in and take your children ANYTIME they want for any reason. there is no due process, your guilty until proven innocent.the reports coming out concerning the treatment of the children and parents should make it very clear that they do not care about these people.im disgusted .have any petitions been written protesting this as i will gladly add my signature.

Yes

We don't care - Like a perpetual "Save Dafur" thread, this is of NO CONCERN here

uh actually

it appears we DO care

I am interested in helping

Please contact me at uponthesolidrock@gmail.com. I want to defend these families from the tyranny of the Texas Police State.

you will be getting an email from me soon.

It will come from liberty@coasttocoastmoneybomb.com so check your junk, mail so you know you are receiving it

Wrong website for this !

Over 2 MILLION Iraqi's have fled and (some reports say) 1,000,000 Iraqi citizens killed/dead.

Over 4,000 dead soldiers and counting, more committing suicide.
25,000 soldiers wounded/maimed.
95,000 with PTSD.

So what if 400 "kids" (yet you also say their over 18) are being kidnapped from Texas CPS ?

Do you think writing our congressmen is going to do something?
You're kidding, right?
They VOTE FOR MURDER !

DIGG THIS:
They don't care.

Only 1 person can save ALL now, so you better re-focus or leave this forum.

FLAGGED!
Get it? Got it? Good!

I agree, and that person is Ron Paul....

, I am usually reluctant to focus any of my time and energy on any other issue..., yet this particular one, I feel is worthy..since it would set a precedent where they could come after all of our children.....and this must be dealt with now...or ALL OF US ARE SCREWED!!!

(and yes I am aware of the horrors the fricken President and his gang of morons are inflicting overseas....that is a much larger issue that can be resolved at this time....This one can be resolved if enough people know whats going on and band together....)

Jdayh, AlakskaRon, Mefleabyte, etc.

To all you folks who have been keeping us apprised of the FLDS situation, a heartfelt thank you. Now, I have a question I hope you good people can answer.

What is it that we actually can do? I hope you hear my "voice" in this question; it is not a rhetorical question, nor is it presented with a sense of resignation. But it seems like we can call, email, Digg, spread the word on the net, etc. -- yet none of that is making a dime's worth of difference.

The FLDS members are very meek and mild, and not accustomed to standing up for their rights. That doesn't mean they forfeit their rights, or don't deserve their rights.

However, since they seem to be understating the situation (e.g., She said she was being treated kindly at the foster home, where a woman loaned her a cell phone so she could call NBC. -- this is perceived as "kindly" by the FLDS member), I don't know what we can do to help them.

Is Judge Walther answerable to anyone? If so: who?

Have appeals been filed? Is the judge accepting any appeals? Is she legally able to reject hearing appeals? Who has authority to file appeals and/or accept whether to hear appeals?

Since it appears that all the official entities (judge, CPS, local authorities, governor) are all in collusion in this affair, to whom can we appeal for justice? More importantly, to whom can we appeal for immediate action??

Were this a group of mentally disabled people who were illegally torn apart and dragged from their peaceful homes, the ACLU and other groups, not to mention the general public, would be furiously up in arms over this situation. These FLDS members are certainly not mentally disabled, but, they seem to be almost as helpless as such people who are at a disadvantage purely due to the innocence of their ignorance. They are foreigners in a foreign land, without any bearings to guide them through this strange new land.

Despite all they have thus far endured, they remain steadfast and solid -- that's an incredible show of strength and personal fortitude. I hope and pray that the children, even the youngest ones, have absorbed that same fortitude to help get them through these horrific trials.

So, what actual, tangible actions can we take? 1,500 miles away makes it unrealistic for me to knock on the doors of Texas residents to get them riled up about the situation; but even if I did do that, what would it accomplish?

I am at a loss, and I therefore earnestly hope there is some clarifying answer to this call to action.

THE PLAN IS NOW WAKE UP ALL PATRIOTS WAKE UP

RESPOND TO THIS POST IF YOU WANT TO BE A PART OF RESCUING OUR FUTURE FROM THESE CPS BASTARDS AND GETTING THESE CHILDREN BACK TO THEIR LOVING PARENTS

There is a plan....it is in the works...unil then you should be

creative and attempt to to keep this issue in the public eye, or at least the dp eye...

here is a list of organizations you could contact...

Texas State Guard
Texas Unified Field Forces Militia
Texas Minuteman web forums
Texas Militia
or the FBI....

Which you can locate links at www.awrm.org via the contacts tab.

And find out what is their position for this genocide as defined by international law.