From The Frying Pan Into The Fire

Today an appeals court ruled that the state of Texas had no right to take the more than 450 children from the FLDS "cult", citing that "The existence of the FLDS belief system as described by the department's witnesses, by itself, does not put children of FLDS parents in physical danger". And in what category of danger would the appeals court list sexual abuse? It has already been well-documented that very young girls were not only sexually abused on a regular basis, but that many of them gave birth to children of their own at extremely young ages. And if the court thinks that impregnating teenage girls was the extent of the sexual abuse that occurred at that polygamist compound they are in for a rude awakening! Show me a convicted child sex offender who only started abusing the girls when they entered their teens!

While I certainly agree that we must abide by the law in any case, I am just not sure there is any law on the books which was written with this type of heinous crime in mind; therefore, common sense must take precedence here. While the courts did not rule that the children must immediately be returned to their parents (the judges gave the lower court 10 days to vacate an order placing the children in state custody), if someone does not step in and challenge this ruling the children will, indeed, be put back in the same very dangerous conditions they were rescued from. They will be sent back to the same compound with the same perverts masquerading as God-fearing people who have already impregnated so many innocent underage girls, stealing their teen and early adult years from them, as well as not allowing them to choose if and when they would have their own children. Is that in the best interest of these children? Are we really looking out for the children, or are we, once again, putting aside all common sense in favor of political correctness?

In television interviews some of the mothers stated "what a great day this is for the state of Texas" and other nonsense. These are the same mothers who turned a blind eye when the abuse took place against their own children. And, while I understand that they have been systematically brainwashed and brought up within the cult to believe that this is common and proper, those of us on the outside know better and should never allow those children back in that environment. If so much as one more child is abused in that awful place after the court has allowed them to be returned there, the blame will lie squarely on the courts and "legal" system of the state of Texas. Someone with a lot more legal sense than me needs to think of the welfare of those children and stop everything, and head down to south Texas and intervene with an injunction, a cease and desist order or any other legal maneuver that would put a stop to this nonsense.

Perhaps the worst part of this whole FLDS story is the fact that the entire situation never should have been allowed to progress to the point where these children have been put in these dangerous conditions. When the cult moved here from Arizona/Utah in 2004 (makes you wonder what the authorities there were planning) it was already well known that abuses of children were being reported within that community for years. Yet when they built their compound in Eldorado, Texas and every news outlet in Texas was reporting on it, no officials took action to make sure the reported abuses did not occur here. Even with privacy laws in place, and no prior proof of wrongdoing here in Texas, the group could have been placed under watch by Child Protective Services or another "watchdog" service. It just seems to contradict all the talk of doing more to protect our children when we allow things like this to take place, and then exacerbate the situation by putting the children back in the same dangerous conditions they were finally freed from.

By: Matt-Speak

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