FLDS raid, Recovered memory corroboration rates
Texas child advocates believe system failed after FLDS raid By Paul A.
Anthony The San Angelo Standard-times 03/27/09 ....The girl, a member of the
Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, was returned to
her
parents in June, and like 437 others, her case has been dismissed by the
state's Child Protective Services agency....Ripping into CPS for what they
described as an inexplicable desire to drop the case as quickly as possible,
Brown
and her employees said the agency underestimated in its final assessment the
amount of abuse that took place at the ranch. As well, they said CPS nonsuited
children without adequately determining whether they were truly safe from
the prospect of forced underage marriages. It's a characterization with which
the agency obviously disagrees -- but which seems obvious to Brown. "At some
point, CPS decided to turn a corner and just get out," Brown said. "That's
when everybody stopped getting looked at." ...."There has been a report of
child
abuse" at the compound, Brown said Walther told her. "I've signed a warrant
for CPS and law enforcement. They're going to check on some young ladies.
There may be possible removals." Brown said they were ready. The next day,
Brown, in San Antonio, received periodic updates from Walther, the number of
children increasing with each phone call. Could Brown's CASA staff handle a
dozen
children, if necessary, the judge asked initially. Then the number grew to
35. Then 80 to 100. "Over the weekend, that number kept growing and growing,"
Brown said. By Saturday afternoon, April 5, the number was 200. The advocacy
center, then sporting a full-time staff of just four and already handling 268
children, scrambled, asking inactive volunteers to come in and help with
paperwork and interviewing the children and parents. Fifty answered the call,
and 35 new volunteers were sworn in. State and national CASA organizations
arrived to provide help and advice about increased security as staffers
received
threats over their perceived role in the removal. ....Ultimately, CPS removed
468 people -- 439 children and 29 women believed at the time to be children.
The 468 people, Davis said, had just 18 last names between them. ....The
guardians pressed CPS and the court to remove the mothers, something that
eventually occurred April 14, leading to a series of tearful media interviews.
Yet
when Davis watched news footage of the outraged mothers on television, she
noticed something strange, she said: They weren't the same women with whom she
had been working over the previous week. "Most of that was just staged,"
Davis said. "There were some very good mothers, but they weren't the ones on
TV."
....The children have been returned, most to the YFZ Ranch, living a
lifestyle their court-appointed guardians are convinced is unhealthy for many
of
them. "There were definitely some of the cases where the children shouldn't
have
been removed and should have been returned quickly," Davis said. But, she
continued, "These are children who were removed for a reason."
_http://www.sltrib.com/News/ci_12013868_
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Recovered memory corroboration rates
There are many studies that show fairly high corroboration rates for
recovered memories.
_http://ritualabuse.us/research/memory-fms/recovered-memory-corroboration-rate
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(http://ritualabuse.us/research/memory-fms/recovered-memory-corroboration-rates/)
