Yep, that's what a Texas appeals court is saying today about evidence presented by CPS that was to justify the agency's removal of more than 400 children from a religious compound.
I'm not surprised.
To a lot of outside folks, the sweep that separated hundreds of children from their mothers seemed heavyhanded from the get-go, especially in light of the fact that CPS's primary claim was that all children were in danger because a handful of underage girls were supposedly married off to older men. And nevermind the problem that the whole thing happeneed as the result of a fraudulent phone call!
It has always been hard to fathom how nursing babies, toddlers and little bitties of both genders were at risk.
The court said the state NEVER provided any evidence all these children were in danger.
The court also said the state was wrong to consider the entire polygamist compound as a household. Taking individual children with reasonable evidence they were in danger would have made more sense.
Do you think?????
In short, our state's CPS agency, often maligned, often overburdened, and often wrong is wrong once again. Only this time their poor judgement has cost hundreds of children their security and resulted in their mothers'unimaginable heartbreak at having to relinqush their babies to total strangers in cities far from home.
All at taxpayer expense, don't forget. This is a bill the tab of which I'll just bet runs higher with every lawsuit filed in the wake of this debacle.
One small step for individual liberty and religous freedom, one giant misstep for the great State of Texas.
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