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No 'male sexual perpetrators' identified involving FLDS kids in SCOT case

Here's an interesting line quoted in the Salt Lake Tribune from the CPS' pleading to the Supreme Court regarding FLDS mothers:"Failure to grant a stay will mean that approximately one hundred twenty-four children will be returned to alleged mothers without any male sexual perpetrators being identified," state attorneys wrote. I take that as an admission that, for the children whose mothers were covered by the Third Court's ruling, the state has not yet identified a single "male sexual perpetrator" despite six weeks of investigation. How then, is this anything more than an expensive and ham-handed fishing expedition?I've repeated this ad nauseum, but it's worth pointing out again the four reasons CPS is allowed to seize someone's children in Texas:1...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on May 27, 2008 (boomark / email).