As a self appointed child expert, I would have to disagree. The comments Marci Hamilton makes are idiotic, at best.

Read the full story at the Salt Lake Tribune

By sending the children in the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints back home, Texas has opened up the doors to groups who want religious protection for abusing children, a leading church/state scholar said Saturday.

Marci Hamilton, a professor at Princeton and Yeshiva University’s Cardozo Law School, told a conference of the International Cultic Studies Association that the Texas Supreme Court’s decision to release the FLDS children from foster care paired with a ruling Friday that tossed out an award for injuries a teenager suffered during an exorcism made a dangerous statement.

“When you add yesterday’s decision to FLDS, the state of the Texas has just sent out an engraved invitation to any group who wants to abuse children,” Hamilton said. The two decisions make “Texas a very dangerous place for children.”

Hamilton, the author of “God vs. the Gavel” and a lawyer who has taken up several cases of child sexual abuse, addressed a packed house at the conference at the University of Pennsylvania. The conference of social workers, sociologists, psychiatrists and scholars is focused on studying cultic groups, and several forums this weekend plan to look at the FLDS situation.

Texas authorities raided the group’s Texas ranch on April 3, taking some 460 women and children into state custody based on allegations of sexual, physical
and emotional abuse. All were released in June 2, though investigations continue.

At the Philadelphia conference Saturday, Hamilton said placing the children into state custody “put them in really terrible straits.”

“They had to eat pizza. They had to learn to ride bicycles,” Hamilton said. “They had to live in a universe where abuse is not normal. They saw a window of information they would have otherwise not gotten.”

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