Wow, I would just like to say that I am not promoting or agreeing with the alleged abuse these girls went through. It is simply about freedoms and the governments over running of those freedoms. The FBI did go in with a fully armed SWAT team with guns pointed at everyone, that is straight from an FBI statement and also from an interview I watched with three of the mothers. The point was there were better ways to handle the raid. Think about the kids that maybe did not suffer any abuse and only knew a loving family home, now they have this experience that will forever stick with them. You said that “we are hearing only some of the bad stories” Stories being the keyword. The media tends to take anything they hear and distort it into a huge story, until it comes directly from evidence or the children nothing should be talked about like it happened for sure.

I am not a big fan of any media news source, they are all out for a “shocking good” news story. They distorted the facts and the evidence when our son was killed and now anyone who talks about that day says it was Dustin’s fault. The news portrayed it that way before they even removed his body from the road, not going on facts or evidence just assumptions.

No I was not saying that they should be allowed to rape children. I do not know a lot about polygamous families and what goes on in those ranches, my point was that the government had one allegation from one person. The FBI went in with guns pointed at these children, they lied to the mothers and then took 400 children and placed them in an environment which is completely foreign to them. Yes, the ranch should be investigated, but it could have been much better handled for the sake of the children.

There are other people in this world that have beliefs similar to the people on the ranch. Young girls are groomed to be “good” wives, mothers and often put into arraigned marriages due to their beliefs or cultures. The majority of this country does not believe in that, so they automatically think of abuse. Like I said I do not agree at all with what is alleged against these girls, but it is the culture of the ranch.

I am sure what I have said probably did not come across the right way, but my heart is breaking for these kids and their mothers being ripped apart and lied too. I believe you are innocent until proven guilty and everything that has gone on are only allegations at this point.

Don’t get me wrong I don’t agree with “how these children are raised” my point was individual freedoms and the lack thereof. I do not believe the government will ever let these children back in their home at least not the girls, which displaces a lot of families. Why does the government look at it differently when an older man gets a teenage girl pregnant versus a teenage boy getting a teenage girl pregnant?

There have been a lot of accusations during this investigation, but we must remember one basic right we have as Americans “innocent until proven guilty in a court of law” .