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Are you asking why it wasn't brought up in this thread earlier? If yes, then it wasn't mentioned because the original OP was a discussion on taxation, not child rape.
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No, I was asking why, if the alleged child-rape was a reason for the raid, was it not brough up by the Feds until all of the -previous- justifications had turned out to be horseshit.
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PLEASE tell me you are not trying to justify coercing and RAPING a 12 year old girl in that statement. Also, your information is incorrect. At that time, the age of consent was 17, not 14. The only law regarding consent at 14 was if BOTH parties were under the age of 18...Koresh was WELL above that age. There is just NO excuse for his actions.. PERIOD!
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No. I was stating that, according to the information I have, Koresh's actions were -legal-. I did not say they were -right-. I would like to see your sources regarding the age of the girls in question, and would be especially interested in seeing sources which did not rely upon the potentially prejdiced testimony of Jeannine Bunds and Kiri Jewell, especially since Jewell's testimony was originally raised during a custody dispute, a situation in which angry mothers frequently coach their children to denounce their fathers for sexual abuse. Ask any Lawyer who works divorces, especially messy ones: it happens all the time.
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At the time, in Texas, the age of parental consent for a minor to marry was 14, as was the age for consent to sex.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Koresh
As for the DNA tests: were these conducted by independant labs, or by the Feds? Was a second opinion sought? If the Feds handled the bodies (and the evidence they contained) in the same way they handled other evidence, I wouldn't trust such reports as far as I could throw them. The Federal Gov't engaged in a mammoth "loss of evidence" following the Mt. Carmel Massacre, only a portion of which has since been "found." I certainly would not trust the same people who "lost" those pyrotechnic gas grenades (since "found" just in time to be ignored by Congress) and the bullet-riddled front door to be honest about something like DNA evidence, especially since the FBI's labs have been involved in evidence-fixing related to DNA in the recent past.