400-plus children from polygamist compound taken into in Texas custody

Tuesday, April 8, 2008

ELDORADO, Texas -- More than 400 children, mostly girls in pioneer dresses, were swept into state custody from a polygamist sect in what authorities described Monday as the largest child-welfare operation in Texas history.

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