From Deseret News archives:
All FLDS children returned to parents
"All of the 440 children have been successfully returned to a parent or guardian," Texas Child Protective Services spokeswoman Marleigh Meisner said Wednesday.
Texas child welfare authorities also officially declared 26 young women whom they believed to be minors as legal adults. The state had initially claimed as many as 31 were underage mothers.
That leaves five underage girls the state claims are pregnant or who have had children. But attorney Andrea Sloan said the number is actually four. She represents a 14-year-old girl on the list whom she insists is neither pregnant nor married.
"They are finally admitting what we all have known," said Laura Shockley, a Dallas attorney who represented several of the so-called disputed minors. "I think they've made a huge mistake. I think they violated those young women's constitutional rights, and they should prepare themselves for the possibility of attorneys addressing that."
Shockley told the Deseret News she is considering a lawsuit against Texas CPS on behalf of her clients, alleging civil rights violations.
The children were reunited with their parents after Austin's 3rd Court of Appeals and the Texas Supreme Court ruled that Texas acted improperly in removing them from the YFZ Ranch. The return of the children does not end the CPS investigation into allegations of abuse on the FLDS property.
"Our investigation continues," Meisner said, declining to reveal any specifics.
A 16-year-old girl exempted from the massive order that returned the children will now be going home. A judge here on Tuesday signed a special order allowing the girl to go home to her mother but she will have no contact with her father, FLDS leader Warren Jeffs.
Jeffs is currently incarcerated in an Arizona jail where he is facing trial on charges related to underage marriages. He was convicted in Utah of rape as an accomplice, for performing a marriage between a 14-year-old girl and her 19-year-old cousin.
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