So when are the judge and CPS officials going to be held accountable for their unlawful actions? Or are they above the law?

CPS will never be held responsible. Look at the case in KY that only ended after CPS took the kids away from the LAWYER of the parents fighting for their children who were taken without reason. It took many months of absurd behaviors and dozens of children removed as punishment from extended family of the original child, because they had the audacity to call CPS on bad behavior and violating rights.
This case in TX has even less chance of turning into punishment for agency or individuals who maliciously stole children. I understand we should protect people when they make honest mistakes, but this judge made it clear that she was substituting HER judgement for the LAW that she is supposed to interpret and rule by. Also, cps had ample time to trace the phone calls in the 4 days it waited to go into the ranch. They knew the calls didn’t come from there, just like they knew the 27 year old mother in custody was not a minor. They chose to ignore the truth to further their agenda. They are the criminals here.
If we take away all the pregnant 15 or 16 year olds in this country from their parents, we won’t have any room in foster care for trully abused children. In my small sphere of influence as a teenager, I knew at least 5 kids who got pregnant by 16, and one of them had 2 kids by the time she turned 18. The statistics on that ranch seem little different from the statistics on any city block.

Well, The raid had a purpose —to break up this community. That appears to be working.
Children were siezed at gunpoint, held hostage for 8 weeks, and subjected to abuse at the hands of CPS. In order to get their kids back, the families had to agree to be scrutinized by CPS despite the failure of the state to produce any evidence of abuse.
If I had a child to ransom, and I didn’t want the wrath of a bureaucrat to cloud the record with allegations they cannot prove and I cannot disprove, I would leave too.
It is all too clear that anything a neighbor is accused of doing or not doing will be applied to every family in proximity. Scatter to survive….It has worked in historical persecutions worldwide.

Do check out both sides ….I thought the material on http://www.Captivechildren.org and http://www.truthwillprevail.org/ was of interest.

I sincerely disagree with the group’s worldview and practices. I have yet to see any proof of systemic abuse. I do think there may be predators among them, but I think that of my own neighbors too.

Does anyone else see the irony of this story juxtaposed with the Brazillian tribe that must not be contaminated with contact by our society?

Not matter what TX did wrong, we as a society are at fault.

We complain about polygamist, but support gay rights as “consenting adults”.

We are appalled about child brides, but have empathy for for Jamie Spears and think it’s ok to for a 16 year old to be a single parent. I’m sure the birth of her child will be celebrated and the media coverage will be glorified.

We are disgusted by the welfare abuse, but turn a blind eye to the generations of welfare recipients in certain cultures and races.

We scream that the children are being brain washed, but we allow parents to through pre-school children in daycare 9 hours a day.

We think the polygamist wives are being abused and controlled, yet we embrace our rights to view, distribute and sell pornography where women are objectified.

At the end of the day, we only have our hypocritical selves to blame. Heaven forbid someone stands up and says we should have morality in our communities and courts. We get everything we deserve.

I pray for these dear children.

Where are the father’s?
I wish Bill O’Reilly would interview
the Fathers of these children?

They seem to disappear
when it comes time
to answer the hard questions?

Can’t they jail any of the men for sexual abuse and/or having sex with minors? Or have they not been able to identify the men who did the abusing/impregnating?

14 year olds being forced into marriage with extremely older men?and you don’t see the abuse?that’s more than enuff evidence for me!!!

These children were seized ILLEGALLY. Women up to age 27 were seized and held against their will! Yet now these people have conditions set on them? Officials have admitted there are only 5 POTENTIAL abuse cases, eg a little more than 1%!

Pregnant teens? Walk into any MIDDLE school and you will find pregnant teens! Do they arrest their parents? the big difference is that these girls give birth not seeking abortion!

there wasn’t even “polygamy” going on! Have you noticed NO charges for polygamy? That id because there wee no multiple legal marriages. This really amounts to shacking up, mistresses etc no matter what you call it!

don’t get me wrong I am against their lifestyle but their rights were violated by the state of TX. the judges were correct but should have gone the next step and dropped all charges.investigation. even any so called evidence was obtained illegally

I find it interesting that when the children the allegations and ensuing drama were headlines. Now that the truth is coming out, there is little media, no headlines, no outraged calls for CPS to be held accountable.

This was an outrage from the beginning and there must be safeguards to keep the system from having such power.

This sick cult needs to be stopped. How can anyone defend these religious nut jobs, after they paired children with adults to perform illegal sex acts? Anyone who is concerned about these criminals “rights” should go to jail with them.

The raid in texas on thta religious community is starting to have some simular aspects to hitlers raids on jewish communities during ww2 . Was it because they practise polygamy. If so why dont they raid the many muslim communities around the country with the same practise. They say they wanted to protect the children. That is being proved in public to be a lie. Since when did the tyranny of the majority overide the constitutional rights of the miinority. The Gov. of Texas should put halt to this sham immediatley before he proves that he is no better than the govs of other states that have treated these same people like this before. I would think that someone has the good sense to look at history in our own country and realize the parralels going on here. If you as the public believes this is a good thing , think about it when the mad dogs of government come knocking down your door!!!!!

DUE PROCESS!!!!
Texas acted like a Gestapo agent, rounding up these women and children. If there is abuse, prove it first. I do not agree with this type of religion, but I do defend their right to worship, as I defend a witch’s cult, of which there are many in this country.
Having taught school in junior high for 25 yrs, I have seen many girls get pregnant, or have abortions. Many of the girls were with older boys, and men. Never was there an arrest. I would imagine the percentage of pregnant girls at the Texas ranch matches the general populations’ percentage.
This type of behaviour on the government needs accountability, and I sincerely hope that this group sues the state of Texas for a breach of their civil rights.
Hopefully, the state will now conduct an investigation CORRECTLY.
I would also like to add, that, as a mother of 4 grown children, that if the state ever attempted to “steal my children at gunpoint”, I might now be dead. I simply can’t imagine what a nightmare these families endured at the hands of the STATE! There is simply too much POWER in the hands of government today.