Some polygamists’ kids set to return home
posted by admin in Home Care ServicesTexas child welfare officials Friday agreed to return some of the more than 450 children, taken from a West Texas polygamist ranch, to their home in three days.
The children were taken to Austin from the Yearning for Zion Ranch near Eldorado seven weeks ago to prevent possibly sexually abusive marriages of young girls to older men. The Texas Supreme Court Thursday upheld a lower court ruling that the removal of the children was illegal.
Protective service officials reached an agreement Friday with attorneys to return 139 of the children to their home Monday. West Texas District Judge Barbara Walther was expected to sign ff on the deal, provided that child welfare officials have access to the children 12 hours a day, the Chronicle reported Friday.
Child Protective Services attorneys must return to court to try to regain custody of some of the older children, whose safety was at the heart of the matter,
The Texas Supreme Court Thursday upheld a May 22 ruling by the 3rd Court of Appeals in Austin that said the state didn’t have enough evidence to order into foster care every child who lived at the ranch instead of just the teenage girls considered at risk.
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