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TalkLeft on FLDS

By Corey Rayburnyung

TChris at TalkLeft posts about how the fear of sex abuse led to some mistakes in the handling of small children in the FLDS crackdown:Some of the minors at the FLDS compound may have been coerced into sexual unions with adults, but there was never any evidence that prepubescent children were at risk, or that male children were at such risk of immediate harm that their wholesale removal from their parental homes was justified. If authorities in Texas had such evidence (beyond the probably bogus information upon which the warrant was based), they should have limited the seizure to the specific children who were specifically at risk.     But that's the whole point. Officials must meet the burden of proof in individual cases. It's much too easy for social workers to say "remove the child...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sex Crimes on June 06, 2008 (boomark / email).