SAN ANGELO, Texas (AP) — Lab workers were set to begin taking DNA samples Monday from the more than 400 children in state custody since a raid on a polygamist compound more than two weeks ago.
Officials hope the samples, to be taken from the children and their parents, will help sort out the confusing family relationships in a convoluted custody case that has strained the resources of the child welfare system and the courts.
Judge Barbara Walther ordered the tests at the request of state officials, who have complained that members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints have continually changed their names, possibly lied about their ages and sometimes had difficulty naming their relatives.
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iIdMpRHjN4hpNKBhfYyAsR4DDo4QD906AAE82
DNA testing is expensive. And to do that many rushed tests is going to break that counties budget..... Oh yeah never mind the federal govt aka U.S. taxpayers are going to foot this bill.
This cult has no freedom of religion like the rest of the nation. Because they are not a recogized group.
The reports of a hoaxters tip was their probable cause to raid this compound is very disturbing. So is the groups sexual practices. The govt will use any excuse to break the laws they wrote. Especially the current administration.
arrested ! They have removed all 400 + kids on flimsy grounds .
DNA is their only hope .
the state has no case yet against this group
Last time I checked SAN ANGELO is in the state of Texas, insided the U.S.A. where it is against the law to practice poligamy. Just because the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints have walled themselves off from the outside world does not permit them to violate our laws.
The state is obligated to investigate possible crimes against children even if it was not the primary reason for invading the compound. If by investigating the charges of poligamy it leads to allegations of child abuse then the state has every right to investigate these charges. Be it 1 or 400 children.
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I believe it was the great Frank Zappa who said "and they said it couldn't happen here". Well it is ladies and gentlemen and there's not much reason to expect that the govt. won't come up with an excuse to have us all tested. Let's guess that the excuse will be "our safety."
It may be involving the welfare of children being forced into situations that they are not able to withdraw from or do not want to take part in.
" On March 31, police received a call from a 16-year-old named Sarah, who said she had been choked and forced to have sex with her "spiritual husband," Dale Barlow, 50. She said she had an 8-month-old child with Barlow.
Barlow, who met with authorities over the weekend and was not arrested, is a member of a rogue branch of the Mormon church that runs the Texas ranch. He is serving three years of probation after pleading no contest last year to charges of conspiracy to have sex with a minor."
http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/04/14/polygamy.retreat/index.html
I am going to guess the children have several different mothers and fathers. Is the government going to determine what set of parents get custody of the children? And perhaps a more interesting question might be what do we do for those children born out of incestual relationships. What kind of physical and mental health issues will they pose to society.
That may not be to far away. I saw news that the cops want to begin taking DNA swabs from everyone they arrest. Not just thse convicted of felonies. I do not wish to be apart of some huge database. I could be already and they govt would not tell me.
In this case. Testing all those adults for paternity may prove difficult. Especially if all the suspected inbreeding has taken place.
so if what they are saying is true - and keep in mind that the original complainant never was found and:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/04/20/polygamy.sect/
Members of the ranch have denied the girl, supposedly named Sarah Jessop Barlow, exists, and authorities have yet to find the caller. However, Texas Rangers are pursuing a Colorado woman as a "person of interest" regarding the phone calls that touched off the raid.
Authorities on Friday said a search of Rozita Swinton's home in Colorado Springs resulted in evidence that possibly links her to phone calls made about the YFZ ranch. Swinton, 33, has been charged in Colorado with false reporting to authorities, but police said that the arrest was not directly related to the Texas case.\
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Then these young women have been abused. So Texas' response is to leave the abusers go free and take these victims children away from them? What ever happened to arresting the criminal? IF what they say these men did to these young women is in fact what happened - when did you ever hear about a woman losing custody of her child because she was raped?
This is insane......
I know of a woman who lost three of her children (real cute kids) because she was involved with her children's father who was a physical abuser of her. He never abused the children. LCCS removed the children because the mom was involved in a domestic violence situation. She had two more children with this man who continued to abuse her. She was never able to escape the children's father. She went through and completed every case plan. LCCS NEVER included domestic violence counseling or domestic violence anything to help her escape her situation.
Subsequently the last two children (beautiful babies) were removed as newborns (never leaving the hospital with the mom or the family).
As far as I can see the mother was abused by her children's father, by LCCS, CASA workers, Judges, magistrates and the entire "child protecting" agency. Now her children are adopted and she received the death penalty for her family, because the system failed her and her children.
One thing you can be sure of, her children will always look for her.
of such situations occurring - but you would not think it could happen with the whole world happening. It was my belief that these things happened b/c no one knew about it - and the people involved didn't have the wherewithall to get any attention to their situation.
more and more and the situation in Texas is for all of the world to see.
At one point the men in the compound said that they would leave if they would return the children and CPS could come on the compound to monitor the women and children. CPS said no. They want to give these beautiful well behaved children to people looking to adopt. That is why they take children from their parents.
http://www.captivefldschildren.org/ViewVideo.php?VID=5