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Originally Posted by madmax

That's not the point. Since when does an anonymous call give the local, state, feds or any law agency the authority to search your house and take your kids?

Since ANY threat to a child that is reported to DCFS/police has to be followed up on. And it wasn't entirely "anonymous." Though she may not have given her full name (police likely would not release it anyway) she identified herself as an abused child at X location, (seventh) married to X guy. How can the police NOT go in. Add that with the fact that they "knew" what the compound was but had no legal reason to go there in the first place, and they got their reason.



Here's a timeline

March 29-31 – A children’s shelter received a call from a 16-year-old girl saying she lived on the Yearning for Zion ranch in Eldorado. She claimed in the call that her 50-year-old husband, later identified as Dale Barlow, beat her and sexually assaulted her. She said that she was Barlow’s seventh wife, and they were members of the Fundamentalist sect of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

April 3 – Authorities forced their way into the polygamist compound with assistance from Child Protective Services. They began interviewing children in the shelter.

April 4-7 – CPS began interviewing and removing children from the compound in buses. In total, 416 children were taken from the compound, and 139 women voluntarily left with them. They were transferred to a fort in San Angelo, and all children are put in temporary state custody.

April 8 – Two people were arrested at different times while trying to stop authorities from searching parts of the polygamist compound.

April 10 – The state officially announced why they were searching the compound, and released information about the 16-year-old girl. They also release information about beds discovered in the temple on the compound, which police say were for sex with underage girls. Meanwhile, FLDS lawyers filed motions in court to stop the searches. This is a federal search warrant btw. The FBI is involved for unknown reasons, although speculation is that it is due to inter-state trafficking of underage girls for the purposes of sex.

April 14 – Mothers who did not have children under four years old were ordered to leave the shelter. CPS said it was because they were coaching the children during interviews. This was a day after cell phones were taken from women and children of the sect.

April 17 – The custody hearing between the church of FLDS and the state began.

April 18 - A judge ordered the children stay in state custody.
April 19 -- Texas law enforcement investigated a woman who may have made a false abuse claim against the polygamist sect. A 16-year-old girl named "Sarah" called a hotline saying she was being abused by her 49-year-old husband. The call began the child abuse battle.