The number one thing I still completely agree with is Judge Walther’s order to remove the children from the YFZ ranch. Hindsight is 20-20, and now people ask why they couldn’t have stayed.

a CPS investigator said there was a “pervasive pattern and practice of indoctrinating and grooming minor female children to accept spiritual marriages to adult male members of the YFZ Ranch ...

"And the YFZ Ranch is where we want to live. But we are willing to move out of town, move out of Texas even, if that's what they expect us to do to get our children back." ...

They kept to themselves, but everyone in town knew who they were. Members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints settled in a remote area near Eldorado, Texas, and ...

Of those, seven women chose to return to the YFZ Ranch, and another 40 opted to go to "a separate location." Azar emphasized that the women were not coerced to make the decision and said it will ...

More:YFZ Ranch remains in limbo 10 years after raid near Eldorado But on that spring day 10 years ago in Judge Barbara Walther’s courtroom, the focus was on the legal steps needed to protect ...

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.

He is serving a life sentence. The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints openly practices polygamy on the YFZ Ranch, as well as in the twin border towns of Hildale ...

ELDORADO, Texas — It was a year ago that the outside world got its first glimpse beyond the battered green gate of the YFZ Ranch. And the view was mesmerizing: Women in pioneer-style dresses ...

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