For The Sake Of The Children.

MayorBob.

Posted to Religion on Mon Apr 28, 2008 at 09:29:59 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.

It all began as a search for a missing 16-year-old girl, allegedly a victim of sexual and physical abuse, at the ranch owned by a polygamist sect near San Angelo, Texas.  It soon developed into one of the largest child rescue operations conducted in the US with 462 children removed and separated from their mothers.  Texas state authorities said the conditions at the ranch were so horrific that there was no choice but to step in and separate the kids from their mothers.  Texas is moving out smartly to place all the children in foster homes.  But, it's a move which some have been decrying as cruel, not the least the mothers. It's also one some people are calling a "class-action child removal" leading to questions whether Texas authorities overplayed their hands.

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