Around this time of year, attorney Carmen Dusek finds herself thinking about a woman named Merrianne. Ten years ago, law enforcement officers and Child Protective Services investigators, acting on a ...

Texas authorities have removed over 400 children from the YFZ Ranch, a polygamist compound in West Texas. The raid was made after a 16 year-old girl made an anonymous call from the Ranch complaining ...

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Ten years ago this week, an armed raid of the Yearning for Zion Ranch outside of Eldorado, Texas, led to the dramatic downfall of polygamous sect leader Warren Jeffs, chaos within his Fundamentalist ...

On April 4, 2008, San Angelo found itself at the center of the biggest child custody case in U.S. history. During the next few days, more than 400 vulnerable children were brought here from the ...

HOUSTON — State troopers sealed off a polygamist compound in a remote stretch of Texas on Friday, and child welfare officials removed 52 girls after a complaint that a 16-year-old had been physically ...

He returned to YFZ Ranch but was allowed to stay only three weeks because he confessed to his father that he was attracted to some of his father's wives — those who were also 14 years old. Warren ...

According to a report from the San Antonio Express-News, the YFZ Ranch in Schleicher County has been sold after years in limbo. According to the article dated March 1, the ranch is being purchased by ...