That's gonna leave a mark, Bill Medvecky Scoops 'em again.

Merrianne Jessop is going home leaving foster care going to be with family. Bill is right again.

The Salt Lake Tribune - "Texas Judge Barbara Walther approved a plan that allows the 14-year-old girl to live with Naomi Carlisle, an FLDS member and a distant relative who moved to San Antonio from Utah last year to help families affected by the raid.

'We're absolutely elated, and we feel like this has been an answer to prayers,' said Willie Jessop, a spokesman for the polygamous sect."

Losers.

"The Court Appointed Special Advocates, or CASA, opposed the relative placement and asked Walther to keep the girl in foster care.

"Our largest concern was [Carlisle] has a 15- and a 17-year -old son in Utah and she has left them there and come out here to raise someone else's daughter," said Debra Brown, executive director. "CASA thought that was a little weird. And it just felt like with the track record and problems we've had on visitation we would have felt she was safer in foster care."

A CASA volunteer had been visiting with the girl about once a month but Walther asked them to meet with her more regularly, Brown said."

Balderdash.

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The Jessop - CASA war

As I expected, the leaked report is at least partly true.

In the San Angelo Standard-Times story today it says;

"Jessop's attorneys have reviewed the CASA report and compared it to complete transcriptions of the text messages prepared by the Department," Malara and Pritchard said in a joint statement released Wednesday. "Jessop's attorneys do not believe the statements contained in the CASA report accurately reflect the actual text messages and were taken out of context."

So roughly, yeah, Barbara said that. I repeat, I don't blame them one whit. Some think it's shocking that a mother would tell her child to act up against authorities, but I don't. It's the time honored principle of a prisoner of war doing all they can to escape.

Again, I do not for a moment propose there is a gang out there in hoods and black face with ropes waiting to sneak over the wall and rescue her. She's not digging a tunnel but people, they are trying to "deprogram" her to turn her to state's evidence.

Texas tried to do that with Teresa Jeffs, it didn't work, and they discarded her. They're trying to do it again with Merrianne Jessop. I see this as the torture of a 14 year old. If she ever convinces Texas she won't give in, they'll give her up overnight. I still have the strong impression from the politics of this business, that Carmen Dusek said she couldn't be part of this.

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