Tuesday, April 22, 2008

FLDS kids being transfered into foster care

MSNBC has reported that the kids formerly in the custody of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints are being sent into foster care now. This is excellent news. Even though we may not have the best foster care system, almost anything would be better than the kids returning to that ranch. Every girl has been or will eventually be abused by the cult, and every boy will either be exiled abruptly (the Lost Boys), or eventually be trained to abuse other girls, which I think is just as bad as being abused. This is a major step forward by the government of Texas to help save people from this horrible cult


Civil Liberties Concerns
There is just one thing about this case that bothers me, though. The state is conducting DNA testing (and fingerprinting) on the kids and parents to find out their families. This is a good idea, but there's just one problem - I haven't heard anything about them destroying the DNA once the investigation is over, and the fingerprinting is ridiculous. That is personal information, and it could be potentially misused later on in the lifetime of these kids. The kids ARE NOT criminals, yet we are only supposed to collect DNA from CONVICTED CRIMINALS. I hope that this doesn't come back to harm these kids later on in their life.

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