State May Be Oversteping Bounds in FLDS Case

I plan to make this my last comment on this matter. It’s a “no-win” argument no matter how it goes. There are many issues here including parental rights, religious freedom, deprivation of freedom without due process of law, and others.

Michelle Roberts, AP writer, reported, “with a court order signed Tuesday, about a quarter of the children were moved from the San Angelo Coliseum, loaded onto buses and taken to foster care facilities around the city and elsewhere. By week’s end, all 437 children are likely to be scattered across the state in 16 facilities.”

Here’s an idea. Why not send these kids “home.” If the Court is concerned that they are going to be abused during the sorting our of this mess, assign CPS workers, Deputy Sheriffs, Constables, foster care parents, or any responsible persons, for that matter, to the compound to monitor all this abuse that is supposedly occurring.

These people should not lose their kids without due process of law. Don’t tell me they will get due process in the next months or (more likely) years while the kids are carted off to a life they don’t understand, shuffled through a system that has never been accused of adequacy, and denied the security of their homes and families without seemingly (and the outsider has only the words of the Media) any PROOF that they are being abused. I think we can rest assured that if any proof existed the Media would have it exposed it by now with great relish.

I repeat (see my first publication on this matter), if there is actual abuse of anybody, prosecute the perpetrators. We have laws – enforce them. But this. . .this seems almost, in my opinion, like the abuse is being carried out by the Court.