Texas Supreme Court Orders Return of Children in Polygamy Case
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In yet another blow to the Texas officials who ordered the mass removal of children from the Yearning for Zion Ranch, the Texas Supreme Court has agreed with an appellate court that they must be returned. Officials will now have to reunite as many as 450 children with their parents. It is not must a rebuke to Child Protective Services, which adopted the most extreme measures in the case without evidence of individual guilt, but to District Judge Barbara Walther who showed very little concern over the rights of the accused parents in the matter.
Walther can still impose conditions to protect the children. However, as discussed on this blog, her orders presented a horrific potentiality in future cases where mere association with a church made one presumptively abusive.
