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	Appeals Court Returns Kids to YFZ Sect By Jacquielynn Floyd Dallas Morning News May 22, 2008 http://metrocolumnistsblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2008/05/appeals-court-returns-kids-to.html exas' child-welfare authorities have no choice but to bow gracefully to a unanimous ruling by a state appeals court that it overstepped its bounds in separating the cult's nearly 500 children from their parents. The court has the authority to make that call, and I would not presume to say they weren't correct in their interpretion of the law. But I hope this isn't a singal that Texas intends to turn its back and allow the polygamous FLDS sect to go right back to operating as a closed and secret society operating outside the rules of law and of civilized society. Sadly, that's what happened in 1953, when the state of Arizona was so widely condemned for the so-called "Short Creek" raid on the same polygamous sect in what is now the community of Colorado City that it turned a blind eye to what was going on there for the next 50 years. Because Texas did not, in this case, have immediate evidence meeting the legal standard for child abuse does not mean that abuse is not taking place. It does not mean these people should be left alone to do as they please for another 50 years. In the end, Arizona and Utah ultimately began probing exactly what was going on in the FLDS cult, and what they found was deeply disturbing: child abuse, welfare fraud, forced "marriages," police and even judges who answered not to the law, but to the FLDS church. And it was that long-deferred scrutiny that led to two significant developments: One was the prosecution and incarceration of twisted FLDS "prophet" Warrent Jeffs. And the other was a transfer of the most brainwashed of the sect's believers to the new compound in Texas. I don't want Texas to be the place where these people find a haven. What they are doing to their women, their children, the unwanted castoff boys who are run off to maintain a generous pool of "wives" for a few favored men - is an abomination. OK, the state did not make its case. Well, the United States government could not make a murder case stick to Al Capone. In the end, they got him on tax evation. The point is, it didn't stop trying.
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