The crumbling case
I am at the River Cafe, just down the street from the Tom Green County Courthouse. This afternoon 51st District Judge Barbara Walther is set to hold the 14-day adversarial hearing on Louise Bradshaw's son, born May 12.
What will Walther do, given yesterday's appeals court ruling?
Here's a question: The Texas Department of Family and Protective Services had all the power in the world to structure status hearings held this week in any order it wanted. It kept telling us, the media and the public, that there were 31 girls between the ages of 14 and 17 who were pregnant, mothers or both.
Now we know the truth: There are only five girls in that group. All but one are or will be 18 this year. One gave birth when she was 17, three when they were 16. One is pregnant.
I kept asking the state for a breakdown by age of the 31 girls, the 60 percent, it claimed were pregnant or mothers. They refused weeks ago and still haven't done it.
Now we know why.
What will Walther do, given yesterday's appeals court ruling?
Here's a question: The Texas Department of Family and Protective Services had all the power in the world to structure status hearings held this week in any order it wanted. It kept telling us, the media and the public, that there were 31 girls between the ages of 14 and 17 who were pregnant, mothers or both.
Now we know the truth: There are only five girls in that group. All but one are or will be 18 this year. One gave birth when she was 17, three when they were 16. One is pregnant.
I kept asking the state for a breakdown by age of the 31 girls, the 60 percent, it claimed were pregnant or mothers. They refused weeks ago and still haven't done it.
Now we know why.
6 Comments:
Thanks fro passing that along.
I am certain MANY appreciate all you're sharing with us!
I've wondered why so many of the adult minors were being scheduled so early in the proceedings myself.
Could it be that somewhere there's a subversive, somebody with a conscience about how these people are being treated?
Or is it just more incompetence?
Or Divine Intervention?
=)
lies, lies, LIES.
The CPS seems to tell nothing but lies. As I have posted before, what makes anyone think that this organization, who has BLATANTLY run over the Constitution, will listen to the Appeals Court Ruling?
They mock the law. They mock the truth. They act with a sense of omnipotence. Typical bible belt mentality, 'we know best and to hell with the rest!'
This is where it is at.
If the CPS defies the ruling, arrests and jail time should come from it.
In the mean time, we are recruiting other companies to join the Boycott Texas campaign.
The campaign will have several phases...one, to add Texas businesses to the current list. Phase 2 will involve a call center and contacting each company in Texas on this list to inform them that they are on the boycott list.
Currently we are working on getting more companies on the list.
How can you tell if CPS is lying?
Answer: Their lips are moving.
Accusations fly against the FLDS and YFZ Ranch members from the lips of CPS workers, which they received from the Anti-Mormon Fundamentalist Hate Groups, but they have YET to prove a single point.
Why is that?
Brooke,
Thanks so much for "keeping them honest".
This entire case has my Constitutional "hackles" in an uproar.
I've never in my life seen such intolerance, such trampling of civil rights, and such absolute disregard for US Citizens in my life.
The FLDS is a religion, not a sect. I'm not even LDS but have at least read enough history to see where the split came, and what has gone on since.
If Mickey Mouse was their prophet would it make any difference?
I keep seeing all this crap about Jeffs being a "sex offender". Besides allegations, I've yet to find anywhere that he has been convicted of anything other than "accomplice to rape". Oh, and they've yet to convict the "rapist".
In my mind, the vision of "accomplice" says he was present (which he wasn't), or that he provided accommodations (the motel room in Nevada).
If it weren't for the fact that folks are hell-bent on persecuting this religion, the Utah law would never have been passed. The Texas "legal age to marry" would never have changed, and this appalling kidnapping of children wouldn't have happened.
Y'all can holler all day long that the case is about abuse, but as long as words like "we believe they were doing..." are used in a court of law, you might want to duck and cover as if there were an A-bomb about to drop.
I am grateful that now, instead of talking of murder, systematic abuse of infants, kidnapping, and weapons of mass destruction, people are at least somewhat focused on whether any evidence exists. Just the other day, when talking to my wife about the FLDS, she said she didn't like them having sex in the temple. It is really hard to change preconceived notions when they have been repeated so often.
However, it is nice to see objectivity, justice, and actual facts re-enter the case. This could be an important victory for all parents in the United States.
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