Remember the “news”? 31 out of 465 (?) “children” were either pregnant or had given birth. That is turning out to be a load of garbage.

Last paragraph first, again, because it sounds a lot like guilty until proven innocent.:

If those allegations prove
unfounded, “I’ll be the first to apologize to you if it turns out
you’re not a person who has abused your child,” the judge told Dan
Jessop, who was in the courtroom. “There is no proof of abuse in your
case. That gives you a leg up.”

Read the full article at: Salt Lake Tribune

An underpinning of the state’s case for taking hundreds of FLDS children into custody continued to weaken Tuesday as officials acknowledged four more women whose ages were disputed are adults – including one who is 27.

Still to come: The state was prepared to admit one additional mother was an adult, but her hearing was postponed. Four women had been deemed adults before Tuesday; other women’s hearings have yet to come up in court.

The Texas Department of Family and Protective Services has maintained a “pervasive pattern” of underage marriages justified removing all children from the YFZ Ranch and their parents, members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

It specifically claimed that 31 girls between the ages of 14 and 17 were pregnant, mothers or both – a tally that originally included 26 women whose ages were in dispute.

One case that supports the state’s claim was postponed Tuesday: that of 17-year-old Suzanne Johnson, who is eight months pregnant and has a 16-month-old child.

…

Andrea Sloan, who represents Leona Allred, said the state was given official documents showing the woman to be 27 the day it raided the YFZ Ranch. On Tuesday, more than six weeks later, Allred’s case was dismissed…

…but the state continued to tell Allred she could not participate in hearings on Tuesday for her two children because she was a minor. Allred turns 28 on June 2.

…as an adult she would not be allowed to remain at the Fort Worth shelter with her two children, including a 15-month-old – which a state attorney confirmed during the hearing.

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