Hearings for FLDS sect kids are under way in West Texas
By MICHELLE ROBERTS
The Associated Press
SAN ANGELO -- Children from a polygamist sect were the only people on the docket Monday at a West Texas courthouse where five judges began handling hundreds of hearings. Attorneys for the children's parents decried the approach as cookie-cutter.
Child welfare officials gave each of the more than 460 children in state custody the same template plan for parents to follow, and judges made few changes. But parents remained without answers to important questions, including whether a requirement that the children live in a "safe" environment means that they can't return to the YFZ Ranch.
Donna Guion, an Arlington attorney for the mother of a 6-year-old son of the sect's jailed prophet, Warren Jeffs, complained that the plans were so vague they would be impossible to satisfy and were contingent on psychological evaluations likely to take weeks.
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