On Deadline (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
In Texas, the Associated Press reports that state officials have dropped 235 of 440 custody cases involving children seized in April from a polygamist sect's ranch. Child Protective Services spokesman Patrick Crimmins said cases are being dropped "as fast as we can because it's a burden on everyone." More are expected to be dropped, he added. Crimmins noted that the dismissals...
Deseret Morning News (Free subscription) | 09/06/2008
SAN ANGELO, Texas — Child Protective Services has revised the number of children it took into state protective custody following the raid on the Fundamentalist LDS Church's YFZ Ranch.Texas CPS now believes it had 439 children in state custody, not 440 as the agency has reported for months."There isn't a simple explanation for that number changing by one child," Texas CPS spokesman Patrick Crimmins...
Patterico's Pontifications (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
... “They’re being dropped “as fast as we can because it’s a burden on everyone,” [Texas CPS spokesman Patrick Crimmins] said. He said the dismissals do not mean that abuse never occurred, only that many of the children can safely live with a parent or other relative — something that sect members and their lawyers argued early on in the chaotic custody case. “It most certainly goes back...
LA Times (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
Since the April 3 raid on the Yearning for Zion Ranch in Eldorado, 235 children's custody cases have been dropped, meaning that fewer than half of the 440 children seized remain bound by a court order to stay in Texas, attend parenting classes or be available for unannounced visits by Child Protective Services.Child Protective Services spokesman Patrick Crimmins said more cases are likely...
Dallas Morning News (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
... classes or be available for unannounced visits by Child Protective Services. CPS spokesman Patrick Crimmins said more cases are likely to be dropped but he was unsure how many. They're being dropped "as fast as we can because it's a burden on everyone," he said. He said the dismissals do not mean that abuse never occurred, only that many of the children can safely live with a parent...
MSNBC.com (Free subscription) | 09/04/2008
... classes or be available for unannounced visits by Child Protective Services.CPS spokesman Patrick Crimmins said more cases are likely to be dropped but he was unsure how many.They're being dropped "as fast as we can because it's a burden on everyone," he said.Dismissals don't mean abuse didn't happenHe said the dismissals do not mean that abuse never occurred, only that many of the...
International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 09/04/2008
... classes or be available for unannounced visits by Child Protective Services.The agency spokesman Patrick Crimmins said more cases were likely to be dropped but he was unsure how many.They're being dropped "as fast as we can, because it's a burden on everyone," he said.He said the dismissals did not mean that abuse never occurred, only that many of the children can safely live with...
Salt Lake Tribune (Free subscription) | 09/04/2008
... classes or be available for unannounced visits by Child Protective Services. CPS spokesman Patrick Crimmins said more cases are likely to be dropped but he was unsure how many. They're being dropped "as fast as we can because it's a burden on everyone," he said. He said the dismissals do not mean that abuse never occurred, only that many of the children can safely live with a parent...
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 09/04/2008
... classes or be available for unannounced visits by Child Protective Services.
CPS spokesman Patrick Crimmins said more cases are likely to be dropped but he was unsure how many.
They're being dropped "as fast as we can because it's a burden on everyone," he said.
He said the dismissals do not mean that abuse never occurred, only that many of the children can safely...
The Common Room (Free subscription) | 09/01/2008
Texas Child Protective Services spokesman Patrick Crimmins confirmed 56 more children from the Utah-based polygamous sect were nonsuited in a San Angelo court on Thursday. "The total number of individuals nonsuited is 253 (including the 26 disputed minors)," Crimmins told the Deseret News. The decision to nonsuit ends court jurisdiction over the children, but it does not necessarily...
Deseret Morning News (Free subscription) | 09/03/2008
SAN ANGELO, Texas — Child Protective Services has filed to "nonsuit" three more children taken in the raid on the Fundamentalist LDS Church's YFZ Ranch."From our standpoint, nonsuiting means we don't believe the family situation requires court oversight. There may still be some oversight by the department," agency spokesman Patrick Crimmins told the Deseret News on Wednesday, just after...
