Religion In America

Polygamist Moms Return to Ranch

 

FDLS Mothers Had Complained About 'Appalling' Conditions at Shelter Where Kids Were Held

By SCOTT MICHELS, MIKE VON FREMD, KELLY HAGAN and JONANN BRADY
April 14, 2008

Nearly all the 139 women from the Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints, who volunteered to accompany the group's children taken by authorities, left police custody late today and headed back to the polygamist sect's rural Texas compound.

A woman in a plural marriage disagrees with polygamist compound raid.

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Though the 416 children were taken into state custody when authorities entered the Yearning For Zion Ranch to investigate allegations of abuse there earlier this month, the women went along voluntarily to be with their children.  

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