Texas Gives FLDS Parents Goals and Tasks to Regain Custody of Children

"In advance of court hearings that begin Monday, [Texas] Child Protective Services has drafted 10 goals and 14 tasks that [Fundamentalist Latter-Day Saints (FLDS)] parents will have to work toward to regain custody of their children."  Here's more from The Dallas Morning News:

CPS is proposing to give parents until next April to "provide a home free of persons who have or will abuse" children and "demonstrate the ability to protect the child[ren] from sexual abuse." The children will remain in state custody until a judge is satisfied that the parents have complied.

On Wednesday, CPS spokesman Patrick Crimmins stressed that the guidelines – known as service plans – are silent about plural marriage and religious beliefs of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

"This is not about polygamy and it is not about religion," Mr. Crimmins said. "It is about child sexual abuse and our commitment to protect children."

The Deseret News has obtained copies of some of these "service plans."  (See top right-hand corner for pdf.)  Meanwhile, Salt Lake Tribune reports that "[t]hree FLDS fathers are demanding a judge in San Antonio return their children, saying Texas authorities acted in a 'blunderbuss' fashion to remove them from a polygamous sect's ranch. "