Court grants appeal by FLDS mothers

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AUSTIN, Texas (KXAN) -- The Third Court of Appeals has ruled that Child Protective Services did not have the right to remove children from the Yearning for Zion ranch last month.

The ruling comes as a result of a document filed by Texas RioGrande Legal Aid last month. The TRLA is the largest provider of legal aid in Texas, on behalf of 48 FLDS mothers that TRLA is representing in their child custody cases.

"The way that the courts have ignored the legal rights of these mothers is ridiculous," said TRLA attorney Julie Balovich. "It was about time a court stood up and said that was has been happening to these families is wrong."

In the decision, the Court ruled that CPS failed to provide any evidence that the children were in imminent danger and acted hastily in removing them from their families. According to the Court, "The existence of the FLDS belief system as described by the Department's witnesses, by itself, does not put children of FLDS parents in physical danger."

TRLA will be holding a press conference in front of the courthouse in San Angelo Thursday at 1:30 p.m. regarding this issue.

http://www.kxan.com/global/story.asp?s=8365745
 
It was the correct ruling. WHile I have no support whatsoever for this cult, the way the Texas authorities marched in on a tip they knew came from out of state and then treated every child as if they came from the same house and showed little or no evidence of actual harm was offensive. If they act this way against a large group of people in public imagine what they do to the single family when the public eye is not on them?
 
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