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Texas social workers will begin conducting DNA tests today to identify the 416 children taken into custody from the fundamentalist Mormon ranch near Eldorado since April 3. A district court judge granted the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (TDFPS) permission to test the children last Friday, as the agency's custody workers continued to struggle with the serious, complicated task of determining which children belong to whom - a task further clouded by the fact that children and mothers gave evasive, shifting answers during interviews...
...Doran was quietly working his own leads, developing an informant inside the FLDS community, where few outsiders were allowed. Doran traveled to Utah and met with state and local officials, including law enforcement officers who were members of the FLDS community. The sheriff also paid visits to the YFZ Ranch because he was occasionally called on by its residents to be a notary or to remove illegal aliens the FLDS found crossing their land, and even once to investigate a traffic death, making him one of the few Eldorado citizens to see inside the compound...
...been prompted by a call from a young girl to a child abuse hotline - the state has yet to confirm they have located her and an FLDS spokesman says she does not exist. The Texas Department of Family and Protective Services (TDFPS) then removed 416 children from the ranch, more than anyone anticipated lived at the compound, Mankin said...
...will be for naught," Helen Pfluger says. "But any way you look at it the kids get hurt." Meanwhile, the FLDS, usually a closed community, has embarked on a media campaign featuring the grief-stricken mothers along with photographs, taken by the group, of armed Texas officers at the ranch. As of yet, no one has been charged with abuse as the TDPS tries to unravel a maze of family relationships - many of the children have one of four common FLDS surnames: Jeffs, Jessop, Steed and Barlow. Sources also say the children and mothers have been misleading the investigators...
...baby girl Jessop #26600765" and run on, some listing children by their full names, others with just a first name ("in the interest of Freddie #26609430, a child") and some with no names at all, ending with a catchall lawsuit "in the interest of 330 children from the YFZ Ranch." Like everyone else, Mayor Nikolauk is pondering tomorrow. "We are all asking the same question," he says. "What's next...