Next in the polygamist sect raid, a legal marathon

[struggle4progress]

416 children will need lawyers, then judges to hear their cases

By JOHN MACCORMACK
San Antonio Express-news

... The state says it now has evidence that every child was either abused or at imminent risk of abuse ...

... because of the complexities of severing parental rights and the likelihood that sect children will resist being removed, the state's attempt at wholesale custody may falter ...

In 1953, Arizona Gov. Howard Pyle sent in more than 150 troopers and police in a pre-dawn raid on the polygamist community known as Short Creek on the Arizona-Utah border. More than 120 men and women were arrested, and some 260 children were removed ...

But the raid proved a fiasco. News coverage described families torn apart. Pyle was later voted out of office, and all the polygamists who had been arrested — and their children — returned to Short Creek ...

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/5696448.html

[CanonRay]

1. Yes, but that was Arizona

with a large (even larger % in the 50's) Mormon population. This is Texas, and they don't like weirdos.

[Warpy]

2. Note that the weirdos are in Texas, Arizona, Colorado

and Mexico. They've been wise enough to stay the hell out of New Mexico.

Even the meek and mild castrati of the Heaven's Gate cult found this state inhospitable to cults.