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To: ChinuSFO who wrote (67905)	5/23/2008 11:32:28 AM
From: Rambi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542787

Yes, it would have been ok with me for that to have been the first step. I am an old protective services and foster care worker. This "investigation" was based on a phone call from someone not even in the compound. While every report has to be investigated by protective services by law, taking over 400 children of all ages from their mothers, and then separating even the youngest without any evidence of abuse, imo, was not in the best interests of the children. I think law enforcement was just waiting for some reason to bust the sect, and used the phone call as the excuse. There was no immediate endangerment to toddlers and infants. Get the teens out, if that's the focus, and work from there. Once there is a reason to have access, you can investigate individual situations more thoroughly and accurately. You should be very sure of what you're doing before taking small children from mothers. Originally, I backed the raid because the idea of forcing any underage girl into marriage and childbearing is appalling. But the law went too far, imo.