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Getting creative on polygamy prosecution

It being Mother's Day, let's turn our attention to the legislative aftermath of the 2008 Great Eldorado Polygamist Roundup, where more than 400 children were taken from their parents at a West Texas ranch run by a polygamous Mormon sect, the Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints (FLDS).This time last year, FLDS children were separated from their mothers based on a creative legal ruling that the parents' religious beliefs constituted per se abuse; appellate courts later overturned those interpretations and ordered the children's return. Now the Texas Legislature is flexing its own creative muscles trying to salvage prosecutions from this fiasco.Legislation to lengthen the statute of limitations on bigamy passed the Senate and will be heard this week in the House Criminal Jurisprudence Committee...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on May 10, 2009 (boomark / email).