Yes, you're not free to abuse children simply because your religion says
it's OK.
JG
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>> 52 girls taken from polygamous sect in Texas
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>> By Bill Hanna . McClatchy Newspapers . April 4, 2008
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>> FORT WORTH, Texas -- A total of 52 girls were removed today from a
>> polygamous sect's compound near Eldorado in Schleicher County, Texas,
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>> 18 of them legally, while the rest were being questioned this afternoon
>> by Child Protective Services caseworkers.
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>> All the children have been confirmed to be girls ranging from 6 months
to
>> 17 years old, according to CPS spokesman Patrick Crimmins.
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>> Crimmins said all the children will be placed in foster homes.
>>
>> "We're *****sing their needs and making arrangements for their
>> placement," Crimmins said. "The caseworkers need to have an op****tunity
>> to *****s their needs and try to find out what the appropriate action
>> will be."
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>> The children were taken in two small buses to an undisclosed location
in
>> San Angelo, 45 miles north of the compound.
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>> No arrests have been made.
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>> Schleicher County Justice of the Peace James Doyle, who arraigns
suspects
>> brought to the Schleicher County Jail, said no one has been brought
into
>> the jail.
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>> "We don't know anything," Doyle said.
>>
>> Randy Mankin, editor of the Eldorado Success, said the roadblocks
remain
>> on the roads leading to the ranch.
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>> Surveillance of the YFZ Ranch, which is owned by the Fundamentalist
>> Church of Latter Day Saints and led by Warren Jeffs, began Thursday
>> afternoon and continued throughout the night, Texas Department of
Public
>> Safety spokesman Tom Vinger said.
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>> Around midnight, Child Protective Services investigators entered the
>> compound, located about 45 miles south of San Angelo, and began
>> questioning members of the sect.
>>
>> This afternoon, a bus left the compound with children in it.
>>
>> Vinger described the sect followers as "very cooperative" and that the
>> group is "providing all of the people we need to talk to" about the
>> complaint.
>>
>> Vinger said authorities have implemented flight restrictions to prevent
>> anyone from flying over the compound and said the Texas Rangers are
also
>> involved.
>>
>> The sect bought the 1,691-acre ranch in 2003.
>>
>> The group began building a temple and other buildings on the remote
>> ranchland. Jeffs, who was considered their prophet, was arrested near
Las
>> Vegas in 2006 and was sentenced to consecutive life sentences in
November
>> in Utah for his role in arranging the marriage of teenage cousins. He
>> also faces federal charges in Arizona and Utah.
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