Texas CPS Wants to Kidnap Eight FLDS Children
2008-08-06 12:39:02
By Donald Richter
On Tuesday, August 5, 2008, the Texas CPS filed petitions to place eight FLDS children, ages 5 to 17, back into foster care, claiming that the mothers have failed to protect these children from fathers who are alleged to be involved in underage marriages. CPS claims that the mothers are not cooperating because they have refused to sign safety plans agreeing to protect the children from physical and sexual abuse. An attorney for one of the mothers said that she advised her client not to sign the plan because it could only be used against her in the future and that her client was verbally and physically implementing the plan.
The children involved consist of two sons and a daughter of Barbara Steed Jessop, a daughter of Amy E. Jessop, two daughters of Ellen G. Young, and two daughters of Alice F. Barlow.
This latest action is a continuation of the CPS attack on a minority religion in which children are considered to be at risk because of the belief system of their parents. Fathers have not been convicted of any crimes and are only alleged to represent a risk because of the indictments delivered by the grand jury last month.
That CPS knows there is no immediate threat to these children is obvious from the fact that the hearing on this case is not scheduled until September 25. Even then the supposed danger of physical or sexual abuse cannot be understood according to the common meaning of these terms. No one can pretend that the two boys or the 5-year-old children of either sex are in danger of becoming child brides. Also, whether or not any underage marriages may have occurred in the past, the FLDS have pledged themselves for the future not to engage in any marriage with a “woman under the age of legal consent in the jurisdiction where the marriage takes place.”
What we are seeing here is not a genuine concern for the welfare of children but a blatant attempt to justify the earlier unwarranted action of removing all of the children from the YFZ community.
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