It is very possible the state is perpertrating a worse mistreatment of the children than was being done at the ranch.

I cannot imagine anything worse than a mother forcing her daughter in to the bed of an adult male to have sex with him. The person you trust the most at that age is forcing you to engage in a sex act seems vastly more harmful than what the state is doing at this point in time. There are, according to journalists covering this story, almost 2 dozen young girls between the ages of 13 and 16 that are currently pregnant. Definitely rape going on in that "religious" compound.


I've seen how this system works

So have I, I've taken in foster children in the wee hours of the morning because of abuse. Broken arms, bruises, cigarette burns, rape victims, all children abused by their parents.