FYI
“The appellate court ruled the chaotic hearing held last month did not demonstrate the children were in any immediate danger, the only measure of taking children from their homes without court proceedings.”
Precisely. That’s what I’ve been trying to explain to freepers. The only ones even arguably in danger of underage marriage were girls at or near puberty. And, even then, not all FLDS girls choose to marry before they are of age. I don’t think they force the girls. One can certainly argue persuasively that the young girls are not in an position to make a decision — that is the whole idea behind “age of consent laws” — but the “rape” that has occurred there, as I understand it is purely statutory. It is not the forcible rape of little kids that some freepers have been shouting about, with no substantiation.
There was absolutely no excuse for taking the little ones or the boys.