This matter is very upsetting to me. This group, regardless of whether a crime has been commited or not is being railroaded and their rights are being disregarded. This frightens me. When will they come for any one elses children.
Who really cares for the childrens welfare in this situation? I have no reason at all to believe the State of Texas has the best interest of the children at hand or else they would not have handled things in the way that they have. Either that or they are incompotent.
First is the whole trumped up reason they took the children in the 1st place. Supposedly there was an informant living there who could not get the evidence that a crime was occuring. Instead they base their raid on what appears to be a hoax call.
Secondly the state was not prepared to take proper care of these children from the start-something that they clearly admit to and is evidenced by where the children are living. We're expected that going into this that they had no idea what to expect.
The children should not have been removed without consideration to what they were going to do with them. The social workers could have monitored what is going on in the village with home visits as is often done. This may have helped to build understanding and cooperation. But to forcibly remove 416 children from their natural surroundings and force them to adjust? I honestly doubt there will by any cooperation occuring.
There were only a small portion of youth to whom crimes are alledged to have occured against. Why were all removed?
Pulling these children from the home under such pretenses will only backfire because of the way in which this whole thing was done. With 350 lawyers working on this case (some probono) the likelihood is that all the children, or at least a portion will wind back up in the custody of their parents on the compound. What will happen then? These children will be more protected and sheltered as a result and will probably develop a hatred for those who "tried to help." If crimes are going on it will be much more difficult to catch and victims will be less likely to come forward once they are forced back into the abusive situation.
If we are going to go after this group of people for these reasons then I think that there are a lot of other groups that need to stand in line.
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