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On Sun, 31 Jul 1994, Mike Duvos wrote:
Had it not been for the fact that having children covered with scars, welts, and bruises is not considered child abuse in the state of Texas, all the children would have been removed from the compound prior to the raid, and only the adults would have been toasted.
Puh-leeze! There has been little to no evidence of ANY abuse of the Branch Davidian children. The only thing we know is that Koresh liked his mates young but that doesn't mean the rest of hte children were abused and, of course, Koresh's kink is quite normal in quite a few places. Are you forgetting that the BDs were investigated for child abuse and cleared earlier?
These facts were well documented. Child welfare workers visited the compound and examined the children. Signs of previous physical punishment were noted as well as a room devoted to that purpose and ^^^^^^^^^^ the appropriate paraphernalia.
We were talking about physical ABUSE, not physical PUNISHMENT. There is a difference, unless of course you're one of those people that believe that they're one in the same and that parents shouldn't be allowed to physically discipline their children in any manner whatsoever. When I was a child, we had a room devoted to the physical discipline of us children: my parents bedroom. And in that room, specifially the closet, my father kept the appropriate paraphenalia: belts. Do you believe my parents should have been arrested for "child abuse"? I don't. The fact stands that there was no evidence that the children in the compound were ABUSED. The Texas department of child welfare cleared Koresh of all such charges. If you have any documentation to the contrary, I would certainly be interested in seeing it. I don't want to see evidence of PUNISHMENT, only ABUSE. Ken ============================================================================= Ken Kirksey kkirksey@world.std.com Mac Guru & Developer - ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- "This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember it or overthrow it." - Abraham Lincoln -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6 iQCVAgUBLj7FhusZNYlu+zuBAQGENgP/V6G/gCuFJ40+AeY0rs++AB73260q9jzk iLScYWfPwQ0JyMd3XJ9K4GW0eVaiV+LmWbAIFXj0FdBOVmzAnpFtw2zWTZep4UMO awrUFsp0UioGi3web3q2cfgxi3Z5YQiaZQN6rvpAeECsXyi+mutG8dQ8HdYgNY1N TRiTwsf+5pk= =86cK -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----