USA (The Christian Science Monitor via Yahoo! News)
May 21, 2008 – 8:02 pm
Parents of a polygamist sect in Eldorado, Texas, complained after Monday’s first day of child-custody hearings that the court had given them no clear answer to what they must do to get their children back from the state. More than 460 children from a ranch run by the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints were put in foster care after an April 3 raid on the compound. The …
Polygamy Then and Now (The Daily Dispatch)
In the April 23, 2008 online-edition of The New York Times, Timothy Egan wrote a post on the Outposts blog claiming that the way polygamy is practiced today by members of the FLDS sect in Eldorado, Texas is the same as it was practiced by members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) in the 19th century.
Relatives Outside Sect Seek Custody (CBS 11 Dallas/Fort Worth)
On Tuesday, two men excommunicated by the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, which runs the ranch where about 460 children now in foster care once lived, offered to serve as guardians for their children if the state deems their mothers unfit.
LDS Church officials to meet with Bush (Deseret Morning News)
President Bush will meet with the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints during his fundraising trip to Utah next week, a church spokesman said Wednesday.
Crash claims three (Messenger Index)
A viewing for David, Kaitlyn and Ellie Coburn is being held Thursday, May 22 from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Emmett Stake Center of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, located at 980 W. Central Road. Services are planned for Friday, May 23 at 11 a.m. at the same location.
CPS family service plan (The San Angelo Standard-Times)
To read a copy of the service plan given by the state’s Child Protective Services agency to parents in the sprawling Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints child-custody case, visit http://web.gosanangelo.com/pdf/051508_fldsplan.pdf.
LIVE FROM THE COURTHOUSE: Day 3 of the polygamist sect’s 60-day child custody hearings (The San Angelo Standard-Times)
Live reports from the Tom Green County Courthouse on the third day of 60-day status hearings in the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints child custody case: Courtroom B - Matt Phinney
Texas CPS returns to sect ranch; rebuffed at gate (The Charlotte Observer)
Texas child welfare authorities returned to a polygamous sect’s ranch Wednesday in search of children who may have arrived since more than 460 minors living on the property were swept into state custody last month. Guy Jessop, a guard at the main gate of the dusty ranch run by the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, greeted two Child Protective Service workers who were …
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