polygamistsのから」取られるDNAのサンプル子供
火曜日、2008年4月22日
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SAN ANGELO、開拓者様式の服-テキサスの西のpolygamist SECT内のもつれさせた家族関係を解決することを希望して…長く身に着けているテキサス-綿の綿棒およびカメラを使用して、実験技術者は何百もの子供および母からのDNAのサンプル月曜日を取り始めた-。
裁判官はどの親かにどの子供が属するか遺伝物質が助けに定める持って行かれることを先週発注した。
権限はどの子供がそして永久にEldoradoのSECTの混合物から取除かれる必要性濫用されるかもしれどの物が折目に安全に戻すことができるか定め管理ヒアリングを始める前にことを計算する必要がある。
州のソーシャルワーカーはここ数週間に、SECTのメンバーが異なった名前および年齢を提供したことを不平を言った。 また、子供は「叔父さんとして参照する彼らの父の全員を」コミュニティの彼らの「母」、およびすべての人として妻」。
テストは近代聖者のイエス・キリストの根本主義者教会の侵略で今月上旬に握られる子供がとどまっている混合する混雑させたコロシアムで閉鎖したドアの後ろで継続した。
DNAの収集は本当らしく10人の技術者に週のほとんどを取るために結果が利用できる前に月または多く、言ったJaniece Rolfeのテキサスの司法長官オフィスのための女性スポークスマンをである。
SECT内の姓が複雑である場合もあること棒Parker、認められる言われるFLDSの代理人: 「誰もだれでも欺くことを試みていない。 … それはではない不吉」。 その代り、彼はSECTの結婚の多数が法的ではないのでと、大人言い、彼らの子供に法的に1つの名前があるコミュニティの内の別のものを使用するかもしれない。
1,700エーカーの混合物の4月3日の夜の侵略はおそらく子供を、言ったSECTを広く調査したケンDriggsを驚かした。 「誰かが感謝を表した方法でそれらに近づくのに時間をかけたら、おそらく必要としたと情報を手に入れよう」、Driggsは言った。
子供はグループの家か他の四分の一に個々の管理ヒアリングが早い6月までに完了することができるまで置かれる。 役人は言ったあるpolygamous家族にたくさんの兄弟があるかもしれないけれども可能なとき兄弟を一緒に保つことを試みることを。
テストは大人をもの437人の子供そして多分何百含む。 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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