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Bint Abdulkadir
Polygamist sect mother gives birth
A mother taken from a polygamist sect in Texas and being held as a minor in state custody has given birth to a baby boy who was immediately taken into protective custody.
State officials acknowledged that the mother may be an adult and said they were trying to determine her true age.
Since state officials raided the sect's West Texas ranch on April 3, child welfare officials have taken custody of all its children on the grounds that they were endangered by the sect's under-age and polygamous spiritual marriages.
A state district judge issued an injunction on Monday preventing child welfare officials from moving the newborn and mother from Travis County until a hearing on Thursday, in which father Dan Jessop will request that his wife and three children be released from state custody.
Patricia Matassarin, Mr Jessop's lawyer, said the mother is 22 and should not be in state care as a minor.
The boy is the second baby born in state custody since the raid.
Child Protective Services spokesman Patrick Crimmins acknowledged that the mother is among 27 girls whose ages are in dispute. He said officials were reviewing documentation for those who claim they are of legal age, and will release them from state custody if they are adults.
Rod Parker, a lawyer and spokesman for the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, accused state officials of deliberately holding a pregnant mother they to knew to be of legal age so they could take her baby into custody upon birth. "They just wanted to keep the mother in custody until they could get the baby," he said.
The newborn's placement in state custody brought the total number of children taken from members of the renegade Mormon sect to 465.
He is likely to stay in state custody even if his mother is an adult. Like other mothers of children under a year old, she would be allowed to stay with him in a foster-care facility, Mr Crimmins said.
and they say islam oppresses women!!!!
A mother taken from a polygamist sect in Texas and being held as a minor in state custody has given birth to a baby boy who was immediately taken into protective custody.
State officials acknowledged that the mother may be an adult and said they were trying to determine her true age.
Since state officials raided the sect's West Texas ranch on April 3, child welfare officials have taken custody of all its children on the grounds that they were endangered by the sect's under-age and polygamous spiritual marriages.
A state district judge issued an injunction on Monday preventing child welfare officials from moving the newborn and mother from Travis County until a hearing on Thursday, in which father Dan Jessop will request that his wife and three children be released from state custody.
Patricia Matassarin, Mr Jessop's lawyer, said the mother is 22 and should not be in state care as a minor.
The boy is the second baby born in state custody since the raid.
Child Protective Services spokesman Patrick Crimmins acknowledged that the mother is among 27 girls whose ages are in dispute. He said officials were reviewing documentation for those who claim they are of legal age, and will release them from state custody if they are adults.
Rod Parker, a lawyer and spokesman for the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, accused state officials of deliberately holding a pregnant mother they to knew to be of legal age so they could take her baby into custody upon birth. "They just wanted to keep the mother in custody until they could get the baby," he said.
The newborn's placement in state custody brought the total number of children taken from members of the renegade Mormon sect to 465.
He is likely to stay in state custody even if his mother is an adult. Like other mothers of children under a year old, she would be allowed to stay with him in a foster-care facility, Mr Crimmins said.
and they say islam oppresses women!!!!
