I don't want to say I told you so, but

The Texas Supreme Court has upheld a lower court decision that the state has no right to remove the 460+ children from the Yearning for Zion Ranch in TX and remand them to the custody of the state. A near tsunami of Christian-leaning clucking do-gooders has been silenced (but unfortunately not slapped). There's no word about the serial sex abuse prank phone caller who instigated the whole tawdry affair, nor any perception on the part of the authorities that, in the process of prosecuting this Salem witch hunt, damage may have been done. The gullible sheriffs and deputies will all keep their jobs, as will the frantic, wheezing, overweight, middle-aged, badly dressed and sanctimonious case workers wielding their clip pads and the awful power of the state.

According to the Houston Chronicle,

The state in recent weeks has been forced to recognize that half of the 30 females it had put in foster care as underage abuse victims because they were mothers or pregnant were in fact adults.

This is a shameful episode, and it's about time is was stopped. It's just too bad there's no way to discipline the real bad guys in this case.