told by CPS workers they would "never see their children again" unless they got on a bus to a San Antonio shelter. The San Angelo attorney, who has been hired to represent several FLDS mothers, said she wasn't allowed to meet with her clients.

"A whole bunch of constitutional rights are being violated," Goodman said. "I don't know of any other CPS clients that have been treated this way."

Child protective services officials adamantly denied the allegations.

"We're not about trying to give people ultimatums," Azar said.

Numbers

Child welfare authorities struggled to give accurate numbers of the children being placed into foster care. About 260 children remain at the coliseum, and will be going to shelters and other facilities in the coming days.

There are 25 females who claim to be women that state authorities allege are teenage girls, Azar said, and they were being placed in foster care.

"In some cases their own attorneys believed them to be children. In some cases they told us they were not adults," he said Thursday. "It's my understanding these young ladies have children of their own."

Texas child protective services has revised the numbers several times. At first, it said 416 children were in custody. After they moved from a makeshift shelter at Ft. Concho to the coliseum, the numbers were revised to 437. After determining that 25 women are underage, it raised the number again to 462.

Movement

The children will be going to 16 foster care facilities scattered across Texas. The judge handling the case said babies under 12 months will be allowed to stay with their mothers, but women with children up to 24 months will have to stay at a nearby shelter, where they can provide breast milk.

The decision to remove the children was made when authorities acted on a phone call to a family crisis shelter from someone claiming to be a 16-year-old girl named "Sarah Barlow." The caller said she was pregnant and in an abusive, polygamous marriage to a man named "Dale."

The call appears to be a hoax, as authorities are investigating a 33-year-old Colorado woman arrested and accused of making false police reports there. An arrest warrant affidavit unsealed Wednesday says cell phones linked to Rozita Swinton were used to make the calls reporting the abuse at the YFZ Ranch.

An arrest warrant is still out for Dale Barlow, 50, of Colorado City, Ariz., but he told the Deseret News he doesn't know the girl in question and hasn't been to Texas since 1977. He was questioned by Texas Rangers earlier this month, but not arrested.