Yfz Ranch

FLDS are still feeling effects one year later

Deseret News, UT
A year later, residents of the YFZ Ranch estimate more than half of the families who scattered themselves across the state to be closer to their children and stay in CPS' good graces have now moved back. "Some still have rental contracts. ...

Lawyers want to seal FLDS case

Deseret News, UT
In a motion filed in a San Angelo, Texas, court, lawyers for Teresa Jeffs' mother, Annette; YFZ Ranch leader Frederick Merril Jessop and FLDS spokesman Willie Jessop seek the return of documents, pictures and dictations made by FLDS leader Warren Jeffs ...

Texas vs. FLDS: 1 year after the raid

Salt Lake Tribune, United States
Women and children, members of the polygamist FLDS sect, are taken to a shelter at the First Baptist Church in Eldorado, Texas at the beginning of a raid on the sect's YFZ Ranch that resulted in over 450 children being removed from their families under ...

FLDS members use faith to cope with aftermath of raid

Abilene Reporter-News, TX
Standard-Times photo by Cynthia Esparza Merril Jessop, Yearning for Zion Ranch leader, talks in his office on March 23, 2009, nearly a year after the Child Protective Services raid on the ranch. shot 3.23/archived 3.25.09 YFZ RANCH, Schleicher County ...

Lawmakers Investigating Past CPS Actions

KERA, TX
The panel will look at what can be learned from the raid on the YFZ Ranch, which some people have characterized as a fiasco. Naishtat: "My initial reaction was that it appeared to me that the due process rights of the children and the families were ...

Texas lawmakers forming panel to examine FLDS raid

Deseret News, UT
By Ben Winslow The Texas State Legislature is forming a special subcommittee to take a second look at the raid on the Fundamentalist LDS Church's YFZ Ranch. At the start of a hearing of the Texas House Human Services Committee on Tuesday, Rep. ...

Fight over FLDS evidence delayed

Deseret News, UT
Lawyers for FLDS leader Warren Jeffs are seeking to keep any evidence taken from the YFZ Ranch out of his upcoming trials in Kingman, Ariz., on charges of sexual conduct with a minor, accusing him of performing underage marriages. ...

State drops teen mom

San Angelo Standard Times, tx
By Paul A. Anthony (Contact) The state's Child Protective Services agency has dropped a 17-year-old mother from its investigation of alleged abuse at the YFZ Ranch, leaving just one child of the 439 initially removed from the polygamous Schleicher ...
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