<p>I read today that the Texas authorities are getting a DNA sample from Jeff through the Colorado authorities and are going to continue to investigate him for underage sex. So, it doesn’t look like Texas is being soft on those who commit sex crimes on minors.</p>
<p>When all this broke loose, the Texas Bar sent out an urgent request for attorneys to volunteer to represent all these folks. Also, the regional State Legal Aid groups provided some representation.</p>
<p>I can see that these attorneys would have the Mothers come forward since they were the primary daily care givers to these children. Texas MHMR criticized the CPS for dividing the Mothers and children, so the attorneys of the mothers had the state mental health professionals on their side.</p>
<p>The perception is that the dads in a polygamous relationship are bad for that reason, regardless of the age of the wives when the “marriages” occurred. Many comments on CC and in the media seem to assume that none of the moms were in these relationships, even with men roughly their own age, by choice. </p>
<p>There was not much up side to having the focus on the dads since they cause the multiple marriages issue to get confused with the sex with minors issue (the CPS concern). Sounds like the mothers were given good lawyering to me. </p>
<p>These events might give some women the idea that they may want to cease being in a polygamous relationship. Also, the Arizona and Colorado authorities have attempted to work with their sect communities to stop the under age sex issue while leaving the polygamy aside. </p>
<p>Can someone explain the legal furor over multiple simultaneous marriages that produce children when lots of women have children with more than one man and men have kids with more than one woman without marriage and this is not “illegal.” So long as having kids out of wedlock isn’t a crime for the man and woman, is “the key” that the polygamous people want to have their relationships be a marriage?</p>