400 Kids going back to Sect

The Texas appellate Court Says Sect Kids Unlawfully Taken and should be returned to there parents.
I have a problem with any state coming in and taking children away from their families. The idea of the state removing 400 children at one time, is unprecedented and more than a bit concerning. Removing a child from their home; the only home they have ever known, is an action to be avoided unless there is compelling evidence that the household poses a very real danger to that child. The fact that this Sect has some "Uncommon" religious practices does not justify taking kids away form their parents.

The question is, does forcing 13 and 14 year old girls to be the third or forth wife of a middle-aged man constitute a dangerous and or unacceptable home. Protective Services officials in Texas asserted that the members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints forced young girls into marriage and sex often to much older men who already had one or more wife. That these young girls would quickly become pregnant binding them to the sect even further. The boys were brought up to see the girls as future potential property, and become adult perpetrators.
The difficulty for the State stems in large part because the original phone call that brought them into the ranch was not actually from a member of the church and had lied during that call. Also Only about 30 of the 440 children seized are teenage girls, since forced sex of minor girls was the justification for the removal of the kids; most of the 440 were not allegedly subjected to those actions and the State failed to show a compelling reason for their removal.
The state needed to be a bit more selective in who it removed from the homes. Clearly, the state has a valid concern about these young people's safety. While we must grant our churches a wide latitude in following their beliefs and practices; but the has to be some reasonable limits and protections especially when it concerns children.

Larry Lubell