The results of unreasonable response
I’m convinced that if Texas Child Protection Agency would have acted more reasonably, the court decision today would have been completely different. Unfortunately the extreme panic reaction of the state expose some of the children for future abuse, and does very little to protect them.
Tags: Child abuse, Children, FLDSA Texas state court of appeals ruled Thursday afternoon that the state of Texas had no right to seize more than 400 children from a polygamist ranch in Eldorado, in the western part of the state.
The ruling asserted that the state’s child protection agency not only acted hastily in removing the children from the Yearning for Zion Ranch in April but also failed to show that they were in immediate danger. According to the court, the state did not establish proper grounds to remove the children from their families, who belong to the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, or F.L.D.S. The F.L.D.S. broke off from the mainstream Mormon church after it had disavowed polygamy in 1890.
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