Texas Appeals Court Says The State Had No Right To Take FLDS Kids

Posted on May 22, 2008
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Texas Removes FLDS Kids

Wow, you have to hand it to the court in Austin that decided the State of Texas had not right to take the FLDS kids away from their Parents at the YFZ Ranch. The Texas appeals court ruled today that the Texas child protective service (CPS) authorities acted improperly when they removed nearly 450 FLDS kids from the Ranch in El Dorado. I’m surprised that the court found it this way, although most of us knew that the Jack Booted thugs at Child Welfare went way out of their way with their heavy handed Gestapo tactics when they took those kids away from their parents. (click here to get a pdf of the ruling)

Unfortunately, the court didn’t order the State of Texas to return the kids to their parents. They have given the lower Court 10 days to vacate the order to place the kids in State custody.

The Court stated that the Texas CPS did not provide proof that the kids were in immediate danger last month during the hearings and that only kids who are in immediate danger could be removed from Parents.

From what I can tell, CPS based their excuse to take the kids on the grounds that the FLDS belief system raised male children to become child abusers.

The Courts ruling stated:

The department’s lead investigator was of the opinion that due to the ‘pervasive belief system’ of the FLDS, the male children are groomed to be perpetrators of sexual abuse and the girls are raised to be victims of sexual abuse

The Court also stated that CPS did not make any reasonable effort to determine if measures other than removal would have reduced the perceived risk to the children.

The Court also noted other irregularities with the CPS handling of the case, including the phony call placed to the Child shelter.

It’s about time someone started reigning in these thugs in CPS. They’ve been given free reign far too long to make decisions about Families based on nothing more than circumstantial evidence or hearsay. Perhaps now they will do their jobs properly, but I’m not holding out much hope for them.

Now something needs to be done about the District Judges who allowed this farce to go on in the first place. Mainly Judge Barbara Walther. We have enough incompetent judges in our legal system. When one display such incompetence in a grand way, they should be removed from the bench and put back out into private practice where they will be held personally responsible for their idiotic decisions.

It’s also about time the CPS authorities also be held responsible for their actions, including a little time behind bars when they’re found to be negligent such as they were in this case.

I’m hoping those kids get put back with their parents. I agree, it’s not the ideal environment for the Kids, but it’s what they know and are used to. They’re loved and well taken care of, which is more than I can say for a lot of kids in so called “normal” homes. It’s also a helluva lot better environment than being ripped apart from your parents (some would call this legal kidnapping) and bussed across the State to group homes and then thrown into the public school system. I guarantee you this is more harmful to them in the short and long term than having to wear 1800 type clothes and working around a Ranch with their families.

Now I’m waiting for the flds kids to be returned to their Families at the YFZ Ranch so they can get along with their lives.

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One Response to “Texas Appeals Court Says The State Had No Right To Take FLDS Kids”

  1. Texas Supreme Court Orders FLDS Kids Back To Parents - Says CPS Went Too Far on May 30th, 2008 7:40 am

    [...] their authority and ordered the FLDS kids to be reunited with their families. Yesterday, the Texas Supreme Court agreed with a lower court that CPS went above their authority when the snatched the FLDS kids away from their parents. [...]

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