SAN ANTONIO — Texas child-welfare authorities asked a judge on Tuesday to place eight children from a Texas polygamist sect’s ranch back into foster care, saying their mothers refuse to limit their contact with men accused of being involved in underage marriages.
Child Protective Services filed petitions asking Texas District Judge Barbara Walther to place the six girls and two boys belonging to four different mothers back in foster care.
The children will be allowed to remain with their mothers until a hearing Sept. 25, a CPS spokeswoman said.
Separately, the department also requested that the cases involving 32 other children be dropped after CPS found no evidence of underage marriages or the families agreed to take appropriate actions to protect the children.
CPS has continued its investigation of the 440 children taken from the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints ranch in Eldorado since the Texas Supreme Court ruled in late May that the children should not have been swept into foster care because evidence showed no more than a handful of girls were abused or were at risk of abuse.
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