May I please say “I told you so”? (See my “atrocity of the month” here.)
The state never provided evidence that the children were in any immediate danger, the only grounds in Texas law for taking children from their parents without court approval, the appeals court said.
The state never provided evidence that teenage girls were being sexually abused, and never alleged any sexual or physical abuse against the other children, the court said.
It was not immediately clear whether the children scattered across foster facilities statewide might soon be reunited with parents.
I hope they will be. It was shocking what the State of Texas did to these children, acting on — as the Third Appeal Court rightly says — essentially no evidence at all.