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"Court Rules Sect Children Should Go Home"
Hoo-ray!!!!
A VICTORY for FREEDOM!!!!!
"by John Sullivan
The Texas State Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that the removal of children from a polygamist religious group’s ranch by child welfare authorities was unwarranted and that the children should be returned.
I love a happy ending, don't you?
The court’s ruling upheld a decision issued last week by the Third Court of Appeals in Austin finding that a state district court judge had not been justified in allowing the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services to remove hundreds children from a ranch complex near Eldorado in April.
In Thursday's decision, the Supreme Court noted that while “the district court must vacate the current temporary custody orders as directed by the court of appeals,” the district court judge could impose conditions to protect the children including preventing their removal from beyond a geographical area.
Although the Supreme Court on Thursday instructed the district court to vacate its original order approving the children’s removal, it did not set a timetable under which they should be returned. Thursday’s decision involved 126 of the children, but a lawyer for representing one of the children seized from the ranch has said previously that the decision would effectively apply to all of the children taken into state custody.
Then families can reunite! Yaaaaaayyy!!!
The Supreme Court said state child welfare officials must meet several legal standards concerning the safety of the children in order to justify removal — such as proving that state officials made a reasonable effort to enable the children to return home but that there was a substantial risk of continuing danger if the children were returned.
“Having carefully examined the testimony at the adversary hearing and the other evidence before us, we are not inclined to disturb the court of appeals’ decision,” the Supreme Court ruled. “On the record before us, removal of the children was not warranted.”
The state Department of Family Services seized 468 children on May 29 from the Yearning for Zion Ranch, a 1,700-acre complex associated with the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. According to the court’s decision, the state officials raided the ranch after receiving a telephone call claiming that a 16-year-old girl named Sarah was being abused at the ranch. The department took custody of all the children without a court order. Investigators never located the girl who had been the subject of the call, the court said.
That's because I am starting to seriously believe that THERE WAS NO CALL!!!!
That was SIMPLY an EXCUSE so the state could go in there with their tank and SWAT teams!!
To gauge American reaction to the seizure of children -- using a "perverted religious sect."
Well, we have SEEN THIS before!!!!
The state then appealed to the district court, arguing that the danger to the children justified removal from their families. The court approved the removal, which the parents challenged in the court of appeals.
State child welfare officials have argued that the removal was justified by danger of sexual abuse of pubescent girls at the ranch. In seeking to overturn the district court’s order to remove the children, lawyers representing mothers of the children said the placement of the children in foster homes was causing irreparable harm."
You bet it is, ripping these kids away from their mothers like that and scattering them to the four corners of Texas!!!!!!!
Also see: The Cost of Texas Totalitarianism to Taxpayers
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