So far, 133 women have left their homes on the secluded ranch of the Fundamentalist LDS Church, presumably to be with their children. As of late Monday, all were being housed in the makeshift shelter at Fort Concho in San Angelo, about 45 miles from their compound.

State officials said the adult women are being sheltered as a courtesy to them and their children.

"These are women that wanted to come. They asked to come. They came voluntarily. They're free to leave anytime, but they have thus far chosen to stay," Meisner said.

Men at the YFZ Ranch are not allowed to leave their 1,700-acre compound while police investigators continue their search.

"We're controlling access to the ranch, in and out," Tela Mange, spokeswoman for the Texas Department of Public Safety, said Monday.

Even after the men are allowed to leave, they won't be able to see their children immediately.

"The men at this time don't have any right to visit their children at the shelter," Meisner said. A judge will have to decide later if visitation is appropriate.

Exactly how many people live at the ranch, no one seems to know. Court documents filed in San Angelo by FLDS Church leader Merril Jessop's attorney, Nathan Butler, described the ranch as "essentially an entire unincorporated city or neighborhood of 300 to 400 residents." He indicated the property contains several homes, a temple, a doctor's office, a school, a cheese manufacturing plant, a cement plant and "other structures."

Mange said she thought there were about 20 homes on the ranch, each two or three stories tall and housing more than one family.

The raids began Thursday night. Early last week, CPS workers received a phone call from a 16-year-old girl on the ranch who said she was being abused. A search warrant signed by 51st District Judge Barbara Walther ordered officers to search the buildings and vehicles on the ranch for any information about an underage girl, her approximately 8-month-old child and any information regarding her marriage to Dale Barlow.

Investigators here say they now believe Barlow is no longer in Texas. There have been reports that a Dale Barlow with ties to the FLDS community is in Utah or Arizona. Barlow is on probation for pleading no contest in 2007 to charges of conspiracy to commit sexual conduct with a minor. The victim in that case was a 16-year-old girl who had a child with him.

Allison Palmer, with the Schleicher County Attorney's Office, said she is aware of such reports, but the focus of the agency now is on the search efforts. "I think efforts will turn toward him later," she told the Deseret Morning News.

Whether or not the girl has been located and/or taken into custody is still not clear, either.