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State Wrongly Removed 400 FLDS Kids, Texas Appeals Court Says
Updated: Texas officials exceeded their authority by taking some 400 children of a religious sect from their parents at the Yearning for Zion ranch last month and putting them in foster care, a state appeals court says.
Responding to a mandamus filing by Texas RioGrande Legal Aid, the Third Court of Appeals held the state's Department of Child Protective Services didn't establish that the children were in imminent danger and acted hastily by taking them from their families on an emergency basis, according to KXAN, an NBC News affiliate. The families are members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, which reportedly advocates polygamy and marriages of teenage girls… Continue reading...
