40 breeder cult women opt for family violence shelter

Houston Chronicle:

Forty women opted Thursday to go to a family violence shelter rather than return to the West Texas ranch where authorities allege children are unsafe because of the polygamist group's practice of "spiritually marrying" underage girls to older men.

Seven of the women who had been staying with their children in public shelters for the past three weeks returned to the Yearning for Zion ranch near Eldorado.

The number of women choosing to go to an undisclosed family violence shelter was a turnaround from last week, when six sought shelter and 51 returned to the isolated compound.

"It was entirely up to them," said Patrick Crimmins, a spokesman for the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services.

As the women boarded separate buses for their chosen destination, they were given a packet explaining how their children would be cared for in coming weeks.

The state will work with all of the mothers, no matter where they went, to ensure they can visit their children, Crimmins said.

The women who were allowed to stay with their children included 17 who have babies under the age of 1. They will be housed at Baptist Children's Ministries in San Antonio, officials there and at Child Protective Services confirmed. The mothers and their infants will be kept away from other residents at the facility.

Sixty-three children also left the San Angelo Coliseum on Thursday. The department again revised its count of children in state custody upward to 462, saying it believes that 25 females who had said they were adults are instead minors.

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Meanwhile lawyers are scrambling to make the state's work more difficult. But, I think the decision by 40 of the women to go to violence shelters may be very revealing and it could break the case wide open along with the information on the underage mothers who had claimed to be adults. The developments in this case are beginning to break at a dizzying pace. There is still much to learn and the DNA results will tell even more.

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