IF this info is true, then Texas CPS better start cleaning house and they better do it fast. But two wrongs don't make a right and FLDS shouldn't get off because of this.
I can't tell from this whether you realize that the CPS has demonstrably lied through the case. They announced that, out of 53 girls 14-17, 31 were pregnant or mothers--without mentioning that they were refusing to accept birth certificates as proof of age, hence had no way of knowing the women's ages--or that a few days earlier they had reclassified about twenty women as girls. By the time the case got through the appeals court, the 31 were reduced to five, the CPS having conceded that a sizable majority of the "31 14-17 girls" were adults, including both of the pregnant ones who they kept control of until they had had their babies.
Someone from CPS testified early on to having spoken to girls who knew "Martha"--whom we now know didn't exist.
CPS tried to justify the seizure of the kids by reporting how many had had broken bones--without mentioning that the percentage, about nine percent, was if anything rather lower than one would expect from a random collection of kids.
So far as I can tell, there is simply no evidence that most of the FLDS parents had done anything wrong; at this point it's down to a tiny number of girls, I think about four, who CPS claims were "married" under age to older men. That's after seizing about 440 kids. On the other hand, the CPS clearly took all of those kids away from their parents with no evidence that any save perhaps the teenage girls were at any risk, kept them for two months, lied about the facts to justify holding them, held onto them after the appeals court had unanimously ruled they had no legal basis for taking them, and only gave them up, reluctantly, when the Supreme Court unanimously confirmed the ruling. And nobody yet has proposed legal penalties for the CPS.
You might want to look at US code Title 18, 1091; someone commenting on my blog pointed it out:
(a) Basic Offense. Whoever, whether in time of peace or in time of war, in a circumstance described in subsection (d) and with the specific intent to destroy, in whole or in substantial part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group as such
...
(d) Required Circumstance for Offenses. The circumstance referred to in subsections (a) and (c) is that
(1) the offense is committed within the United States; or
(2) the alleged offender is a national of the United States (as defined in section 101 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101)).
...
(6) transfers by force children of the group to another group;
or attempts to do so,
The offense is genocide, the punishment (if nobody dies) is a fine of up to a million dollars and imprisonment for up to twenty years. I think it is arguable that that is the crime the Texas authorities committed--that they were trying to destroy the Texas part of the FLDS by taking their children away. At least, it's hard to see any other plausible explanation for what they did, given that the only claim that anyone but the teenage girls was in any immediate danger was that the boys were being "groomed to be abusers," i.e. reared in their parents' religion.