| f the children, recently removed from the Yearn for | | | | records were seized. These include marriage, birth |
| Zion ranch, will receive mental health counseling. The | | | | and genealogical documents, which will help authorities |
| Texas State office of Child Protective Services is | | | | match children with their parents. |
| working with several mental health agencies and | | | | All of the women and children are currently residing |
| others in the field, in order to put this all together. | | | | at, either, the Wells Fargo Pavilion or Fort Concho. At |
| Because all of these children, 416 to be exact, have | | | | the time, no one from the compound or any other |
| been taught not to trust the world outside of the | | | | relatives are being allowed to visit. It is not known if |
| ranch environment, the | | | | this policy will change. |
| ‘non-believers’, it will be very difficult | | | | Most of the children are the offspring of the inner |
| for them to adapt to a new and different way of | | | | circle of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of |
| life. | | | | Latter Day Saints, which is a turncoat, splinter, group |
| These children have never been allowed to have any | | | | of the Mormon faith. |
| type of independent thoughts and have been told | | | | Warren Jeffs, who is now serving a prison term, is |
| that those living outside of the compound are the | | | | the self proclaimed prophet of the Church. He is also |
| devil. It has been said that the children have been so | | | | thought to be the father of most of the children that |
| sheltered that many don’t even know what | | | | were removed from the compound. |
| a crayon is. | | | | The compound, located in El Dorado Texas, was |
| Mental-health workers are currently finding it difficult | | | | raided on April 3, 2008 as the result of a telephone |
| to obtain information from the majority of the | | | | call made by a 16-year-old girl seeking help from a |
| children because they have been told, over and over | | | | domestic violence shelter. During that phone call the |
| again, not to speak to outsiders. | | | | girl indicated that she had been raped and beaten by |
| The counselors hope that once the children began to | | | | a 50 year old husband and that she was pregnant. |
| receive counseling, while not in the presence of the | | | | Construction on the compound began in 2003. It was |
| mothers who came with them, they will begin to | | | | during that period that many children were taken |
| open up and express their feelings. | | | | from the Utah and Arizona area… some |
| In addition to mental health services for children will | | | | without their parents and brought to the compound, |
| be receiving other types of medical services. | | | | to live. |
| Currently, their educational needs are being assesses, | | | | The majority of these children were girls, under the |
| as well. | | | | age of six. Jeffs was under the belief that children |
| It should be noted that 139 women voluntarily left | | | | over the age of six were much too contaminated to |
| with the children. To date, families remain together. | | | | be of any use to God. |
| During a search, at the compound, a variety of | | | | |