More evidence in from CNN that Texas CPS is back to their old tricks, playing nasty with the FLDS. The fiction that CPS wants everyone to buy is that every child in an FLDS home with a father indicted for “sex abuse” (for underage marriage) is in “imminent danger” of being sexually abused. But this ain’t a case involving run of the mill “sex abuse.” And by treating it as if it were, Texas CPS is effectively thumbing its nose at the Texas Supreme Court.
Everyone involved in the case — except apparently CPS — knows that the “sex abuse” alleged in the FLDS indictments is the genre of sex abuse that would justify tearing little boys and girls from their fathers’ arms. But CPS is on a vendetta — out to recover its “good” name — and isn’t willing to wait for due-process. It’s going to begin punishing the FLDS for alleged crimes, presumption of innocence and factual distinctions be damned :
In June, the Texas Supreme Court ordered the children returned, saying the state had no right to remove them because it did not prove the children faced imminent danger of abuse on the ranch.
Since then, the mothers of girls ages 10 to 17 have been asked by Child Protective Services to sign “safety plans” to protect their children from sexual abuse, officials said.
“For children who lived in a home with a man who married underage girls or agreed to an arranged marriage of an underage daughter, the safety plans include a requirement to keep the children away from that man,” officials said in a statement Tuesday.
“In the cases of the eight children listed in today’s court filing, the mothers have refused to sign the safety plans,” according to the statement, which said the cases include six girls and two boys who range in age from 5 to 17 years old.
This is just disgusting. It justifies all of the vitriol directed at Texas CPS since its sorry raid on the YFZ Ranch back in April to today.
Full story at CNN.
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Thomas Forguson 08.05.08 at 6:16 pm
Obviously the boys are in no danger at all. CPS is a rogue agency seeking to hold innocent children Hostage.
TxBluesMan 08.05.08 at 6:55 pm
I thought that you wanted due process and individualized hearings, with individualized evidence?
Doran Williams 08.05.08 at 7:41 pm
tx has pretended all along to be concerned for the children, even though he has suggested that some of the older ones be prosecuted for bigamy if they would not testify against someone who he, tx, thinks should be sent to prison. That same mind-set is at work here, now.
tx, and the CPS child abusers, know how hard it will be on the the kids in these families to be separated from their parents. But CPS is willing to subject those kid to that abusive trauma, as is tx, not because those kids have been abused, but because the mothers won’t sign CPS’ damned parenting plans.
I predict that CPS will be unable to produce any evidence at trial that any of the children have been abused or neglected since being returned after the first CPS kidnapping. CPS will not be able to show any actual threat that has been made by the fathers to abuse the kids. CPS will bear down on the religious practices, on some hearsay and innuendo, on the indictments, but they will have no evidence at all that these particular kids are in danger of being abused by their fathers.
This is nothing more than a despicable power play by CPS. They want, they need, to demonstrate that they are superior/dominating. They are a bunch of real sick kittens, and so are those who support them in this despicable display.
Read tx’ posts very carefully. He will change the subject; he will dissemble about what the “evidence” is; he will demonize the mothers and the fathers. He will show absolutely no concern for the emotional trauma that CPS will inflict on these kids if they convince a judge to remove them. He will resort to every police state ploy ever used by the demagogues and dictators of the immediately past century. He will gloss over the fact that CPS could have gone to the judge to get an order removing the fathers from the homes. No. CPS and tx have to flex their muscles, show who is boss. This is about power and who has the most, not about protecting the kids. The back story here for CPS is “damn the kids, we need to reassert the agency’s predominance.”
TxBluesMan 08.05.08 at 7:46 pm
I predict Doran is wrong.
Thomas Forguson 08.05.08 at 8:18 pm
Txbluesman, we mean real evidence of imminent phyiscalthat is imminet physical abuse before an impartial judge. There are no impartial judges in San Angelo. Holding innocent children hostage becuase the mother wont sign CPS parenting plan is despicable.
Otis 08.05.08 at 8:21 pm
I predict more to come after Aug. 21st grand jury. People on this blog have been whining that there is no evidence and no indictments, then when the state does indict, you say its a conspiracy against FLDS religion. Snake kissers are a religion too and will be prosecuted by the state of Texas if filed upon. Just can’t see what the whining is for especially since few on this blog live in Texas and none live in Eldorado. Want to give a special thanks to the BluesMan. Yankees do not count, which means anyone north of Lubbock; Austin is a close second.
Kurt Schulzke 08.05.08 at 8:38 pm
Otis –
Texas is the single biggest contributor to the 45k page views on this site over the past month. Wave and say “howdy” to all them fellow Texans!
KS
txmom77 08.05.08 at 8:41 pm
Otis-
I’m waiting for convictions. The DA could indict Mother Teresa and she’s dead.
TxBluesMan 08.05.08 at 8:41 pm
Thomas, the proper word is protected, not hostage.
Hostage is what the FLDSers do…
WC 08.05.08 at 9:52 pm
Mary Winkler in Tennesse shoots her husband dead, in cold blood, and has custody of her kids. The FLDS are too dangerous to keep theirs. Makes alot of sense.
Thomas Forguson 08.05.08 at 9:53 pm
Texasblues man: You are as convincing as George Bush when he says we dont torture. When the state of Texas wants to hold children in order to force mothers to sign a service., that is holding hostages. There is no other reason for taking the two boys.
Cali 08.06.08 at 12:07 am
Doran,
Bravo!
Well said and thank you for saying it.
kbp 08.06.08 at 1:58 am
Predict Doran is wrong?
Must mean where he said “that CPS could have gone to the judge to get an order removing the fathers from the homes”.
amberrose 08.12.08 at 7:52 pm
Txmblues, Do you believe in innocent until proven guilty? If you do please refrain from making such unfounded remarks that the FLDS hold people hostage. What the mainstream media say is not gospel truth. Thank you for your comments they are very interesting. I’ve learned alot.