From Deseret News archives:
Confusion on FLDS kids' status ongoing
Texas RioGrande Legal Aid, which represents 48 FLDS mothers, has received reports of at least three children who are hospitalized, but say they've been unable to confirm the information and report back to worried parents at the YFZ Ranch.
One report is of a 2-year-old boy who is in a San Angelo hospital. The child's mother told TRLA the boy had lost a "severe amount of weight" while staying at the makeshift shelter at the coliseum, said communications director Cynthia Martinez.
"We've been trying to get information about what the condition of this child is and whether or not the mother will be allowed to visit," Martinez told the Deseret News.
"The last information we have (from two days ago) is that the child went into shock and was lethargic," she said.
The mother told attorneys that when Child Protective Services workers separated him from his mother, the boy was literally clinging to her leg.
"These women love their children and their number one priority is to keep their families together," she said. "It's difficult if they don't know where the kids are and how they are doing."
A second child, who is 2, is currently hospitalized and on antibiotics, according to a report received by TRLA. But when the child's guardian ad litem called the hospital, she was told there was no one there with that child's name. The foster care facility had told the ad litem the child was in the intensive care unit.
"Our attorneys have made who knows how many phone calls to how many people to find out how these children are doing and what's going on," Martinez said Sunday. "We just aren't getting the response or the cooperation that we would like."
To make matters worse, the mother of the 2-year-old was separated from another child she had been nursing, Martinez said. Now the mother is struggling to decide where she most needs to be the hospital or the facility where her nursing infant is yet she doesn't know either location.
Department of Family and Protective Services spokesman Patrick Crimmins said some of the children have minor medical issues, as would any group of 462 children.
"But there aren't any children with any serious illnesses that I'm aware of,' he said Sunday.
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