Re: Texas Polygamists--sf in real life?

In article <ddfr-E9D0E3.23183426042008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
David Friedman  <ddfr@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>In article <fuvtei$p9v$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Paul Ciszek) wrote:
>
>> In article <h1r614thuho85d5crfsqafc6aophg27etq@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>> Tim Merrigan  <tppm@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> >
>> >What ought to, but isn't going to, happen at that point is that the
>> >whole thing should be thrown out and all detained parties and seized
>> >property returned, on the grounds of no valid probable cause for the
>> >original warrants.  BTW the last I heard, a couple days ago, is that
>> 
>> Under the "poison tree" doctrine, if the original search was bogus,
>> the cops can't use anything as evidence.  I'm not sure if everything
>> has to be given back--if, during an illegal search of my apartment,
>> the cops find cocaine, a sawed off shotgun, some weapons-grade
plutonium,
>> and a couple of dead bodies that can be identified as a couple of kids
>> who disappeared off of a playground last month, I don't think I'll be
>> getting any of that stuff back.  What I am pretty sure is NOT covered
>> under the poison tree, though, is living persons.  If the cops search
>> my apartment and find several pregnant 15 year olds, I will NOT be
allowed
>> to keep them no matter how illegal the original search was.  If the
>> girls were kidnapped against their parents' will, they will be returned
>> to their parents' custody; however, if it can be determined that I
>> obtained the girls with their parents' collusion, then they will be put
>> into the foster care system.  And that is the case we have in Texas;
>> the "Spiritual Marriage" documents show that underage girls were given
>> to older men with the knowledge of their parents, and the pregnancies
>> prove that these older men did in fact has *** with them.  THe fact
that
>> 14 year olds could marry in Texas three years ago has nothing to do
with
>> the case of a pregnant 15 year old or 16 year old with a child more
than
>> three months old today.
>
>All of that might explain putting into foster care the handful of 
>pregnant minors. It might even explain putting into foster care female 
>teens believed to be at risk of being pressured into marriage. It 
>doesn't explain putting into foster care everyone else, including over a 
>hundred children four years old or under.

If the parents have consented to the statutory rape of their older (but
not old enough) daughters, does it make sense to leave the other girls
with those parents and come back for them when they reach puberty?
If the parents are unfit, they are unfit to have ANY children in their
custody.

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