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FLDS women: Mothers plead to see children

Posted by Charlie Kilo on April 11th, 2008

I certainly don’t condone what the FLDS have done, but it looks like Texas authorities may be stepping into a huge public relations nightmare. If they’re smart, they’ll start reuniting mothers and children very quickly:

Three mothers of 10 children taken from the Yearning For Zion Ranch by Texas authorities told the Deseret Morning News Thursday that child-welfare workers will not allow them to see or talk to their children.

“I am their biological mother. They will not let me in to see my children,” said Monica, a 34-year-old woman with five children ranging in age from 3 to 12 years old.

“They have my children and I don’t know why. I have asked to see them and have been told no. I am not going to sit here and let them have my children. I don’t know what, but I am going to do something. I am going to see my children.”

Monica is one of three women who spoke with the News in separate telephone interviews. All three women, who said they live at the YFZ Ranch raided last week by Texas officials, were emotional in sharing their personal details but did not want their full names published.

“My 11-year-old daughter was taken by CPS workers and questioned alone … about being with men and marriage. She doesn’t know anything about that (kind of thing),” said Monica, adding she received the information from a volunteer caseworker who is helping care for the FLDS children at one of the shelters. “The caretaker said my daughter is just sobbing her eyes out. I want the whole world to know what they are doing to our children!”

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