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I don't recall what you wrote here on the forum about the Jeffs raid (if that is what you are referring to) so give us the Cliffs Notes.
Briefer than Cliff's Notes.
Texas didn't like the FLDS compound. Texas was looking for any possible excuse to shut the place down.
Warren Jeffs was in prison, tried, convicted and sentenced.
The Texas authorities received a phone call from
"Sarah,' a woman who claimed to be inside the compound, mistreated and wanting to escape.
The call was fraudulent. the woman calling had a habit of doing this sort of thing, and was actually from Colorado Springs, named Rozita Swinton, who had a long history of making just such phone calls.
the kicker? Texas KNEW it was fraudulent, and used it as an excuse to raid the compound anyway.
It wasn't the first time Rozita Swinton had pulled something like this.
Texas went the whole Waco route; tanks, SWAT teams in full gear, K-9 corps, snipers on the buildings and hills surrounding the compound.
They invaded the compound, loaded all the women and children on busses owned by the local Baptist church, (one of my favorite images from this event)
and hauled them off to detention centers, high school gymnasiums with porta-potties at the back of the playing fields in full view of the public on the other side of the fence. The women and children were separated, and the children put in foster care. Texas claimed that most of the young mothers were actually teenagers and minors themselves, and they would not accept state birth certificates as proof that they weren't.
Breast feeding mothers were separated from their babies.
It took MONTHS for the mothers to get their children back, months, and many hearings, in which the judges told the Texas child services people to LET THE WOMEN AND CHILDREN GO, because it was illegal and unconstitutional to hold them against their wills. Even child services acknowledged that the women and children were not being charged with any violations; they were victims.
The response to that order?
No, we won't let them go because if we do, they will leave and we will no longer be able to look for some evidence of a crime for which we can hold them.
They finally had to let the women go, but the kids remained in foster care, forcing the women, who had no money or resources, to find a way to live in the cities where their children were. It took a very long time to get the families together.
The irony here....and it should be ironic even to the most belligerently biased prejudiced idiot?
Texas was charging the MEN with child abuse and endangerment, but they TOOK the women and children, imprisoned them, and left the men at the compound, free to go anywhere they wanted to go.