Web Posted: 05/06/2008 11:53 PM CDT

By Terri Langford, Houston Chronicle

HOUSTON — A judge at the center of the largest custody battle in Texas history has approved a request to bring in the Texas attorney general's office to prosecute any future criminal charges that may be filed in the case.

State District Judge Barbara Walther on Monday approved a request by Tom Green County District Attorney Stephen Lupton for a special prosecutor in the case involving the Yearning for Zion Ranch north of Eldorado.

On April 3 and 4, the state began removing more than 400 children who lived on the ranch with their parents, members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, a breakaway Mormon group that embraces polygamy.

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