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Families Separated by Sect Raid Reunited

Saturday, December 13th, 2008

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PlusFamilies Separated by Sect Raid ReunitedFamilies Separated by Sect Raid ReunitedThe Associated PressMore than 400 children taken from a polygamist sect’s ranch two months ago began returning to the arms of their tearful parents Monday, hours after a judge bowed to a state Supreme Court ruling that the seizure was not justified. (June 2)[Notes:SOT: It's been like a nightmare----pause--- yeah--but today's the better part ..yes...] A sentiment being repeated–by the parents of more than 400 children taken from a polygamist sect’s ranch in West Texas. [Notes:SOT: oh I'm gonna hug him and kiss him and take lots of pictures.]Monday —-the sect children began returning to the arms of their tearful parents —–hours after a judge bowed to a state Supreme Court ruling that the seizure was not justified. [Notes:MOS: are you hear to pick up your children sir?? Yes we are....] The young children are being released after two months in state custody— much of it spent in foster care centers like this one in San Antonio….. [Notes:MOS: how does it feel to be reunited with your kids.?? Wonderful!!]Monday’s order *does* come with a few requirements. FLDS parents must stay in Texas and attend parenting classes.Further –the state will be allowed to examine children for abuse……(SOT)((SUPER: Marleigh Meisner/ Child Protective Services Spokesperson)”it allows for the investigation to continue. We have concerns for the safety of the children. We’ve had concerns since april 3rd.”((Stand up))((SUPER:John Mone/The AP))” not every child may make it back here to the yearning for zion ranch that’s because..most of the parents have relocated to the same towns where their children were put into foster care(SOT)(SUPER:Willie Jessop/FLDS Elder)” all marriages in flds are consensual”Church elders are implementing a new policy —saying they will forbid any girl to marry who is not of legal consent age in the state where she lives. [Notes:(SOT) Willie Jessop/FLDS Edler](I added in SOT) [Notes:"the church will counsel families that they will neither request or consent]The state of Texas had originally argued all the on the Yerning for Zion ranch in San Angelo— were in immediate danger from what it said was ’sexual abuse of teenage girls’But Texas officials were not able to provide any proof of the alleged abuse. John Mone, The Associated Press Eldorado, Texas.

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FLDS Children Must Be Returned To Their Families

Sunday, December 23rd, 2007

AdamJacobson08 asked:


400 children removed from the Polygamous ranch in El Dorado must be returned to their families.

That’s the decision handed down just hours ago by the Texas Supreme Court.

The justices ruled that child welfare officials over-stepped their authority when they removed the children from the Yearning For Zion Ranch.

They said child protective services failed to show an “Immediate Danger” to the children, and they said C-P-S did not utilize every option before they took the children.

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ILLEGAL raid of FLDS!

Sunday, October 21st, 2007

subiesisters asked:


Today, May 29, the Texas Supreme Court ruled they agree with the appellate court that the raid conducted on the Fundamentalist Latter Days Saints in El Dorado, Texas was illegal by Child Protective Services!! The children are to be returned!! Every citizen needs to stand up NOW.

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Child Protective Services: CPS & Police Abuse Constitution, Invading Homes, Kidnapping Children, Ignoring Courts, and Criminalizing Americans. Polygamist FLDS Raid Sheds Light on More Cases.

Saturday, October 13th, 2007

Acrinimiril asked:


Child Protective Services can take your children too. CPS has come to believe they are above the law and the Constitution, that they do not need a search warrant to come into your home, label you as a child abuser for any reason and make you a criminal based upon their opinion alone, take your children away in a paddy wagon, and put your kids into foster homes pending a court hearing where CPS will try their best to win and permanently take custody of your kids. If CPS loses, they will continue to fight you, slandering your family and listing you as a child abuser in government databases.

CPS is an abusive government agency spiraling completely out of control. It’s time to shut them down.

The unlawful removal of 468 children from the FLDS ranch in west Texas, has put CPS under the microscope. That case has led others to wonder if they can do that to FLDS children, can CPS do that to my children?

CBS 42 investigative reporter, Nancy Wilson, shows us one family who says the same thing happened to them, and eight years later they are still trying to clear their names.

This is the Gates family, Gary and Melissa have 13 children, 11 of them adopted. They saw a need for kids from a variety of backgrounds who need love in a stable home.

Imagine their surprise when 11 government employees, 6 police officers and 5 CPS workers, showed up on their doorstep.

The school called CPS when they discovered that the Gates pinned a baggy with food wrappers inside the shirt of one of the kids that was caught stealing. It included a two page explanation and who to call if there were questions.

The school did make a phone call, to CPS. Gates was shocked to find CPS workers in his home uninvited, especially when CPS refused to leave.

“How can you take 13 kids? That opened my eyes to a whole new way of government.” - Gary Gates

CPS & Police completely ignored the 4th Amendment Constitutional rights of Americans, entered the Gates home, and took away all 13 of their children, without a court order, after a mere phone call. This is a very similar situation to the FLDS raid, except that the phone call that Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (CPS) used to kidnap the FLDS children was a hoax.

Later in court, the reason CPS gave for taking the Gate’s children was that CPS felt that Mr. Gates was uncooperative with them taking away his children, and his unwillingness to cooperate put the children at risk.

Fortunately, the judge ordered the children returned immediately. An independent psychologist conducted his own review and wrote a glowing report, saying, “I’ve never said this about anyone I have evaluated: I admire the Gates, I would not hesitate to place my own children in their care.”

However, even though the judge ordered the case dismissed, and the independent review was praiseworthy, CPS did not care. CPS called the praiseworthy review disappointing and continued to fight the Gates anyway, listing them in the state’s central registry as child abusers.

Even though the Gates were innocent, CPS claims that because their opinion is that the the father emotionally emotionally abused one child by punishing him, and since all the kids saw it, that equals 13 counts of abuse. And, because the wife did not stop it, that equals another 13 counts of abuse for a grand total of 26 counts of child abuse.

The Gates were never charged with any crime, they are guilty based solely on the opinion of CPS.

The Gates have spent the past 8 years and $175,000 trying to get their names removed from the child abuser registry after CPS unjustly listed them.

CPS’ unlawful and massive FLDS raid of the polygamist community’s children may actually result in more Americans becoming aware of these abuses within CPS and the government.

U.S. politicians, such as Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, George Bush, Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee, do not represent any true change for 2008 elections or US government.

One of the few congressmen consistently standing up for and voting for the Constitution, the rights of the people, and liberty, is Republican Congressman Ron Paul. If you don’t know who he is, take some time to watch some of his videos on YouTube, or read his book The Revolution, you just may be amazed like the rest of us. It’s time to take America back and live by the Constitution, before it collapses as a bankrupt empire.

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$14 Million Dollar Texas Raid on FLDS Ranch

Monday, July 30th, 2007

klbj590 asked:


The cost of the April raid on a polygamist compound in West Texas is expected to top $14 million, about one-third of it in lawyers’ fees.
That’s according to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, which obtained more than 400 pages of invoices, e-mails and other state records from an open-records law request.
The biggest chunk of spending is expected to stem from court proceedings after the state seized about 460 children from the Yearning For Zion Ranch near Eldorado, which is owned by the polygamist Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
The state expects to pay nearly $4.5 million in legal fees, including paying for lawyers who represented the state and others appointed by judges to represent the children.
A state district judge in San Angelo first gave custody of the children to the state child protective services agency, but the Texas Supreme Court later returned the children to their parents.

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FLDS: Eldorado, TX Raid

Friday, March 9th, 2007

watchman2008 asked:


UPDATE 5/29/08: Texas Supreme Court: FLDS children to go home
UPDATE: 5/22/08: Court Says Texas Illegally Seized Sect’s Children.
http://i.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2008/images/05/22/mandamus.decision.2.pdf
A Texas appeals court ruled on Thursday that the state had illegally seized up to 468 children from their homes.
The children have been in foster homes scattered across Texas since early April, making their parents travel hundreds of miles to visit them.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/23/us/23raid.html?ref=us
UPDATE April 18, 2008: Colorado Springs Woman Arrested for False Reporting in Raid:
http://kjct8.com/Global/story.asp?S=8192184
FLDS: Eldorado, TX Raid
April 3, 2008: Department of Child Protective Services kidnapped 463+ children taken from a ElDorado, TX religious village.
A 16 yr old claimed to be Sarah, a witness that called the authorities, is no where to be found

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Texas Appeal Says FLDS Families Are Flight Risks

Wednesday, April 26th, 2006

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PlusTexas Appeal Says FLDS Families Are Flight RisksTexas Appeal Says FLDS Families Are Flight RisksThe Associated PressChild welfare authorities are warning that members of a polygamist sect could flee Texas jurisdiction now that a court has found the state’s removal of their children was improper. The AP’s John Mone reports from San Angelo, TX. (May 28)San Angelo, TX–Polygamist RetreatSUGGESTED CAPTION: Child welfare authorities are warning that members of a polygamist sect could flee Texas jurisdiction now that a court has found the state’s removal of their children was improper. The AP’s John Mone is in San Angelo, TX where on going child custody hearings have been put on hold until the state’s supreme court rules if the lower court decision was proper. ***STAND UP***SUPER: JOHN MONE//ASSOCIATED PRESS” THE FATE OF AROUND 440 CHILDREN FROM A WEST TEXAS POLYGAMIST SECT LIES IN THE HANDS OF THE STATE’S SUPREME COURT. THE REASON–AN APPEALS COURT FOUND THE REMOVAL OF THE KIDS FROM THE GROUP’S COMPOUND TO BE IMPROPER AND THE CHILD WELFARE AUTHORITIES ARE FIGHTING THAT DECISION. ” [[VO: COVER WITH FILE VIDEO]] [[TRACK]]IF THE HIGH COURT AFFIRMS THE RECENT RULING THAT MEANS THE CHILDREN WILL LIKELY GO HOME TO THEIR PARENTS. THE TEXAS CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES IS WARNING THAT MEMBERS OF THE SECT COULD FLEE THE LONE STAR STATE..IF THAT HAPPENS. A REJECTION MEANS THE STATE WILL KEEP THE CHILDREN. THE KIDS ARE NOW SCATTERED ABOUT FOSTER HOMES ACROSS TEXAS.IN APRIL…AUTHORITIES TOOK THE KIDS INTO CUSTODY FROM THE YEARNING FOR ZION RANCH IN ELDORADO, TX. THE LAND BELONGS TO A RENEGADE MORMON POLYGAMIST GROUP CALLED THE FUNDAMENTALIST CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER SAINTS. IT BROKE AWAY FROM THE MORMON CHURCH MORE THAN A CENTURY AGO…WHICH RENOUNCED POLYGAMY. THE STATE RAIDED THE YFZ RANCH BASED ON A PHONE CALL, PURPORTEDLY FROM A 16-YEAR-OLD GIRL LIVING ON THE COMPOUND. SHE CLAIMED HER MIDDLE AGED HUSBAND BEAT AND ABUSED HER. THE GIRL HAS NEVER BEEN FOUND AND INVESTIGATORS ARE SEEING IF THE CALL WAS A HOAX. BUT THE CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICE SAYS DESPITE THE NOW DUBIOUS TIP, IT FOUND EVIDENCE GROWN MEN WERE MARRYING AND IMPREGNATING UNDERAGE GIRLS. AUTHORITIES ARE EXPECT THE FIRST RESULTS FROM DNA TESTING TO ARRIVE SOON. THE STATE WANTS TO MAP OUT THE COMPLICATED FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN PARENTS AND CHILDREN ON THE RANCH. INVESTIGATORS CLAIM THE F-L-D-S DIDN’T PROVIDE ADEQUATE INFORMATION ABOUT FAMILIES. MEMBERS OF THE SECT, CLAIM THEY’RE BEING PERSECUTED FOR THEIR RELIGIOUS BELIEFS, INCLUDING THAT POLYGAMY BRINGS GLORIFICATION IN HEAVEN. [[RETURN TO STAND UP SHOT]] [[SUPER: JOHN MONE//THE ASSOCIATED PRESS]]”THE HIGH COURT HAS ALSO ASKED THE STATE TO PROVIDE MORE PROOF ON WHY THE APPELLATE DECISION SHOULD BE OVERTURNED. IT ALSO WANTS LAWYERS WHO REPRESENT SOME OF THE F-L-D-S MOTHERS TO FURTHER ARGUE WHY THE CHILDREN OF THE YFZ RANCH SHOULD BE RETURNED. JOHN MONE THE ASSOCIATED PRESS, SAN ANGELO, TEXAS. ” ___ ___, The Associated Press.(****END****) ANCHOR VOICE: JOHN MONE————————-VIDEO PRODUCER: MONE/WALDON (washington) ——————————VIDEO SOURCE: aptn ————————–VIDEO APPROVAL: DONNA STARDDARD ——————————VIDEO RESTRICTIONS:———————————-SCRIPT/WIRE SOURCE:————————————

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