“Texas Children’s Protective Services spokeswoman Marleigh Meisner said officials decided that children are more truthful in interviews about possible abuse if their parents are not around.
“I can tell you we believe the children who are victims of abuse or neglect, and particularly victims at the hands of their own parents, certainly are going to feel safer to tell their story when they don’t have a parent there that’s coaching them with how to respond,” Meisner said.”
Seems to me that I remember a time when some daycare people were destroyed because the children made up a bunch of lies and were encouraged by child services. I wonder how much coaching Ms. Meisner is giving the kids about what to say. One woman in the story said....
“I have an 18-year-old daughter that has been taken and isolated, and they’re trying to interrogate her and trying to get her to say that she is the victim,” Amy told FOX News. “And she’s been isolated and interrogated through the whole night and then several days and the abuse is absolutely terrible.”
Sounds like grilling a suspect instead of interviewing a “victim”.
Right now all we see are fresh-scrubbed mothers in their missionary garb.
Looks like a modern attempt at PR manipulation.
All of the photos I've seen are of females, where are the males?
I wonder if the mothers are speaking the accepted responses because they are threatened with the loss of their children.
Which, in most cases, a mother could be coerced into saying whatever her captors wanted.
The cult leaders could be threatening the women by telling them if the authorities didn’t like their lifestyle the children could be removed from the mothers forever.
/johnny
“Seems to me that I remember a time when some daycare people were destroyed because the children made up a bunch of lies and were encouraged by child services.”
The differences I see in this case are:
1. Their official, published beliefs are that adolescent girls should have sex with whatever man they are told to have sex with.
2. There is a lot of physical evidence that they are acting on their beliefs (many pregnant teen girls).
3. There are many ex members of this cult who will testify that this indeed occurs regularly.
I can’t put this in the same league as McMartin preschool.
While what you are talking about is a real concern if the people asking the questions don't do their jobs properly, I'm pretty sure the solution isn't to just ignore accusations of abuse and never question children without their parents present.
Record the sessions, and allow the parents to make the argument that their children were coerced.
“I have an 18-year-old daughter that has been taken and isolated, and they’re trying to interrogate her and trying to get her to say that she is the victim,” Amy told FOX News. “And she’s been isolated and interrogated through the whole night and then several days and the abuse is absolutely terrible.”
Sounds like grilling a suspect instead of interviewing a “victim”.
So why isn't this adult child demanding to speak with a lawyer or be released? It's not like she's been prevented from talking from anyone else. If she has been, how does this woman know this is happening?
This is a close knit cult. These are the people from that group that have volunteered to talk to the press. It's possible that they are just defending themselves against the evil government that is out to get them. It's also possible that they are lying to gain sympathy.
Her claims that her adult daughter not only had been held in isolation for days, but has been questioned without sleep, and suffered abusive interrogation is incredulous. Even if you accept her claims as true, how would she know how her daughter has been questioned since she's been isolated from her?
It's from the Dade County Prosecutor Play Book, author Janet Reno.
An 18 year old is not a child and can be interrogated or interviewed without the consent or presence of a parent.
Be careful speaking common sense and truth about this issue around here.. you’ll likely be strung up.. there’s a witchhunt going on.
That is why I am VERY VERY leery of Prosecuting these kind of cases without Real physical evidence