Muestras de la DNA tomadas cabritos de los polygamists'
Martes 22 de abril de 2008
Por Michelle Roberts |
ANGELO del SAN, Tejas - con las esponjas y las cámaras fotográficas de algodón, los técnicos de laboratorio comenzaron a tomar las muestras lunes de la DNA de centenares de niños y de madres - usando de largo, vestidos del pionero-estilo - en esperanzas de clasificar hacia fuera las relaciones enredadas de la familia dentro de la secta del oeste del polygamist de Tejas.
Un juez pidió la semana pasada que el material genético se lleve la ayuda se determina qué niños pertenecen a qué padres.
Las autoridades necesitan calcular que hacia fuera antes de que comiencen audiencias de la custodia para determinarse qué niños pudieron haber sido abusados y necesidad de ser quitado permanentemente del compuesto de la secta en Eldorado, y que se pueden volver con seguridad al doblez.
Los trabajadores sociales del estado se han quejado de que sobre el pasado pocas semanas, miembros de la secta han ofrecido diversos nombres y edades. También, los niños refieren a todos esposas de sus padres las' como sus “madres,” y todos los hombres en la comunidad como “tíos.”
La prueba fue encendido detrás de puertas cerradas en el coliseum apretado en donde los niños agarrados en la incursión este mes en la iglesia fundamentalista de Jesús Cristo de los últimos santos del día componen anterior están permaneciendo.
El recoger de la DNA es probable tomar a 10 técnicos la mayor parte de la semana, y será un mes o más antes de que los resultados estén disponibles, dijo Janiece Rolfe, portavoz para la oficina del Procurador General de la República de Tejas.
Rod Parker, abogado de FLDS, reconocido que los nombres de familia dentro de la secta pueden ser confusos, pero dicho: “Nadie está intentando engañar cualquier persona. … No es siniestro.” En lugar, él dijo que porque muchas de las uniones de la secta no son legales, los adultos y sus niños pueden legalmente tener un nombre sino utilizar otro dentro de la comunidad.
La incursión de la noche del 3 de abril en el compuesto de 1.700 acres asustó probablemente a niños, dijo a Ken Driggs, que ha estudiado la secta extensivamente. “Si alguien hubiera tomado la época de acercarles de una manera que era respetuosa, habrían conseguido probablemente la información que necesitaron,” Driggs dicho.
Colocarán a los niños en hogares del grupo u otros cuartos hasta que las audiencias individuales de la custodia se pueden terminar por junio principios de. Los funcionarios dijeron que intentarán guardar a hermanos juntos cuando son posibles, aunque algunas familias polygamous pueden tener docenas de hermanos.
La prueba implicará a 437 niños y posiblemente centenares de adultos. State authorities revised their count of the children from 416 as they developed better lists and discovered that not all the female members who claimed to be adults were over 18.
The testing will be more far complicated than that of the typical custody or support case.
In a typical custody case, “maternity is already established,” Rolfe said, but in this case, researchers will have to determine the identity of both parents.
Each person who submits to a test will be photographed, and the inside of his or her cheek will be swabbed to remove cells for analysis.
The DNA sampling is an enormous undertaking for a state that typically tests only 1,000 children a year.
Some of the adults have ordered by the state of Texas to submit to testing. Others are being asked to do so voluntarily. But how many will do that is unclear.
Parker said he is afraid authorities secretly intend to use the DNA to build criminal cases. But state Child Protective services spokesman Greg Cunningham said: “We’re not involved in the criminal investigation. That’s not our objective.”
Authorities believe the sect forces underage girls into marriages with older men. No one has been arrested, but a warrant has been issued for member Dale Barlow, a convicted sex offender who has said he has not been to the Texas site in years.
Attorneys for the children and the adults have complained that they haven’t had enough access to their clients at the coliseum. Texas District Judge Barbara Walther ordered Monday that the women and children in the be allowed to use newly installed phone lines to contact their attorneys.
The judge also asked the attorneys to look for a Mormon volunteer to help watch over twice-daily prayers after attorneys for the women who remain with young children at the coliseum complained they weren’t given enough freedom to hold their usual prayer service. CPS has said it has no intention of infringing on their religious rights but wants to be sure the women aren’t conspiring to tamper with witnesses in the custody case.
“The way our clients pray is sacred to them, but it becomes less sacred when they feel people from the department are monitoring them,” said Andrea Sloan, a lawyer for some of the women.
Walther suggested that volunteers from the mainline Mormon church — of which FLDS is a renegade sect — might be able to provide monitoring without undermining the sacredness of the services.
The attorneys for the mothers and children agreed to look for someone at a local stake who would be willing to help.
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