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« Previous EntriesBREAKING NEWS: judge divides FLDS child cases
Friday, July 25th, 2008Source: gosanangelo.com
Nearly four months after the largest child-custody case in U.S. history commenced, 51st District Judge Barbara Walther has broken it up, leaving 244 separate cases involving the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
Walther split Case No. 2902 - which included more than 300 children - into 110 cases grouped by mother, [...]
LIVE FROM THE SENATE: FLDS coverage
Thursday, July 24th, 2008The part in bold turned out to be false, although that is what was expected of the FLDS…apparently they failed to live up to the expectations of their enemies in this regard.
Source: gosanangelo.com
LIVE FROM WASHINGTON, D.C.: Coverage of Senate Judiciary Committee hearings into Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
(All times are Central [...]
Would You Believe Five Underage Mothers? How About Two?
Monday, July 14th, 2008I think this is worth pointing out again, for all those who are victim of short attetion spans.
Via: Reason Magazine
[Texas Child Protective Services] claimed 31 underage girls at the ranch were pregnant or mothers. It later conceded that at least 15 of them were in fact adults while a 14-year-old on [...]
Rosita Swinton in Colo. court
Monday, July 14th, 2008Via: Houston Chronicle
A woman considered a person of interest in phone calls that may have sparked a raid on a Texas polygamist group is returning to court for one of two false-reporting cases against her in Colorado.
Rozita Swinton of Colorado Springs has a hearing in Douglas County District Court on Monday.
She’s accused of violating her [...]
Texas officials gather more DNA evidence for criminal case
Sunday, July 13th, 2008Via: Salt Lake Tribune
Texas authorities working to build a criminal case against polygamous sect leader Warren S. Jeffs took a third genetic sample from an FLDS mother and her child on Saturday.
The Texas Attorney General’s Office served a search warrant on Veda Keate, 19, in Converse, Texas, at the apartment where [...]
2nd official in polygamist raid to retire
Friday, July 11th, 2008From: UPI.com
Another Texas official involved with the controversial raid on an polygamist ranch announced his retirement Friday.
Col. Thomas Davis Jr., head of the state Department of Public Safety, released a brief statement, the Salt Lake City Tribune reported. His last day is to be Aug. 31, the same day that Carey Cockerell, director of the [...]
Rosita Swinton pleads innocent to unrelated case
Wednesday, July 9th, 2008Via: Salt Lake Tribune
A woman whose alleged bogus tip is thought to have sparked April’s raid on the FLDS ranch in Texas pleaded not guilty Wednesday to an unrelated misdemeanor charge of making a false report in Colorado.
Rozita Swinton’s case is now scheduled to be heard in a three-day trial starting Oct. 20 in El [...]
FLDS parents learn about parenting classes
Thursday, July 3rd, 2008Salt Lake Tribune
A month after their children were returned, FLDS parents are getting the first word about parenting classes the state of Texas has required them to complete.
Marleigh Meisner, a spokesperson for the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services, said the classes will begin to be scheduled within the next [...]
Polygamist Leader Denied Chance To Address Texas Committee
Tuesday, July 1st, 2008Via: keyetv.com
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The leader of the Fundamentalist sect of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was angry that he was denied the chance to publicly address the Supreme Court’s Commission on Children, Youth and Families.…
Jessop came to town to attend a regularly scheduled meeting of the Supreme Court’s Commission on Children, Youth and Families.
He [...]
Head of Texas agency that seized children to retire
Friday, June 27th, 2008Good news, from the Deseret News
The head of the Texas department that removed about 440 FLDS children from their homes has announced he is retiring.
Carey Cockerell, the commissioner of the Department of Family and Protective Services, will retire Aug. 31. Cockerell and Child Protective Services, a branch of DFPS, have been strongly criticized for the [...]