FLDS updates:'conspiracy of silence', immunizations, review fight vs polyamy crimes (Reid)

[uppityperson]

http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_9207759

5/9/08 Texas: FLDS mothers in a 'conspiracy of silence,' cannot challenge children's removal
Until women from a polygamous sect "unequivocally" identify their offspring, they have no standing to contest a judge's decision to remove the children from a west Texas ranch, state officials argue.
The Texas Department of Family and Protective Services contends in a court filing released today that FLDS mothers have engaged in a "conspiracy of silence" that forced the en masse custody hearings they now want to do over.
The document was filed in response to a petition filed with the Third Court of Appeals in Austin on behalf of 50 women from the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
The state filing lists 468 children as being in custody, something a spokesman said today was a typographical error. There are 464 children in custody...(more)

http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_9209950

5/9/08 Texas will immunize FLDS children
Texas authorities have asked foster care providers to immunize every FLDS child - despite some parents' concerns about possible negative effects.
The Texas Department of Family and Protective Services sent letters to 16 group homes and shelters this week asking them to line up shots for the children.
"It appears to be a totally unimmunized population," said Patrick Crimmins, department spokesman. "We're the legal parents of the children and we would like for them to be immunized."
Crimmins said the state requires all children in custody to be immunized for their "health and safety." He said no one would be forced to get inoculations; older children specifically would have the opportunity to decline the shots.
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Willie Jessop, an FLDS member and spokesman, said some parents have immunized their children and some have not. "It's an individual decision," he said. But the parents "oppose forced mandates of things happening to their children they don't even know don't even know about...(bit more)

http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_9192642

5/9/08 Senior Justice Dept. prosecutor to review fight against polygamous crimes
A senior Justice Department prosecutor will work with Utah, Arizona and Nevada to review how the federal government can help attack polygamy related crimes.
That revelation comes in a letter penned by Senate Majority Harry Reid.
Reid, writing this week to Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff and Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard, said that U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey has appointed a senior, career prosecutor to work with the Western states' officials on how federal authorities might help "tackle this complex problem" of crimes in polygamous sects.
The move is essentially seen as a preliminary step toward a federal task force on polygamy. "Working together, I believe federal and state authorities can do even more to address the epidemic of lawlessness in polygamous communities throughout the southwestern United States," Reid wrote.

[Faux pas]

1. The conspiracy of pedophilia cults hiding under the guise of

'religion' has gone on too long. Enough is enough. I'm sure they have plenty of evidence to close all of the compounds down, just with what the escapees and Lost Boys have told them. This coddling criminals has got to stop, all across the board.

[Cerridwen]

2. "the parents 'oppose forced mandates of things happening to their children'"

Vaccines=bad, forced "marriage"=okay?! I think I'll walk slowly away from the keyboard.

:nuke:

[uppityperson]

3. Well, you KNOW vaccines can cause problems!!!!11

And they weren't really legal "marriages" so it's all ok.
:sarcasm: just in case.