Reuniting Plans, Nother Book, Nursing infant, & Canada

A few exciting stories for today! More talk on plants to reunite parents and children and what the parents have to change (is it not obvious?!) . Another book from a former FLDS, Stolen Innocence. An interesting development on custody rights as a couple is allowed to keep their breast feeding infant. And finally, Canada begins to work on their own FLDS issues.



Plans for FLDS families are not so individual
http://deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,700225988,00.html

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Individual family service plans for the children taken into state protective custody in the raid on the Fundamentalist LDS Church's YFZ Ranch are expected to be filed in a Texas court beginning today. But just how "individual" those plans are is in question.

The plans, which are supposed to include input from the children, their parents and Texas Child Protective Services on what it will take to reunite a parent with a child, are being filed under a Friday deadline. Individual status hearings for the 464 children in state protective custody are scheduled before five judges in San Angelo on Monday.


Former under-age polygamous bride tells all in book
http://origin.sltrib.com/news/ci_9251450

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Months after helping to send Warren S. Jeffs to prison, Elissa Wall is telling her story in a book she hopes will lead women and girls to leave his polygamous sect.

Stolen Innocence debuts amid a child custody battle in Texas involving the polygamous lifestyle and marriage practices of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

Wall was traveling Tuesday to New York for an exclusive appearance on the "Oprah" show, according to Roger Hoole, her attorney.


Texas Barred From Taking Infant Seized in FLDS Raid; Perry & Haas Secure TRO
http://sev.prnewswire.com/legal/20080514/LAW05014052008-1.html

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A District Judge here on Tuesday barred the state from taking a nursing infant away from its mother when he turns one on Thursday -- a major victory for one couple whose children were seized last month from a fundamentalist Mormon ranch in Eldorado, TX.

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Judge Michael Peden also ordered the state to disclose the location of the couple's older two children, ordered that the parents be allowed daily supervised visits with them, and set a full hearing on whether the state has the right to keep the children at all on May 23.


Canadian polygamist sect is under pressure after raids
http://www.bnd.com/news/world/story/340732.html

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Many residents in this parallel community, which includes about 500 American citizens, share those same beliefs -- that you take many wives and live a communal lifestyle -- but prosecutors have not moved in to take action.Yet.

British Columbia's Attorney General Wally Oppal told The Associated Press he plans to arrest someone on a polygamy charge or ask the courts to weigh in on Bountiful's legal standing within the month.

"Something must be done," he said. "I personally feel, and our government feels, that it would be inappropriate to do nothing."