Relatives seek custody of sect children
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
SAN ANGELO, Texas -- Two men excommunicated by a polygamist sect went to a west Texas courtroom Tuesday to offer themselves as guardians for their children, who were seized from a church-run ranch, if the state deems their custodial parents unfit.
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