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>The appeals court's ruling was a decisive legal >victory for the families of the Fundamentalist Church >of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. The court >slapped down State District Judge Barbara Walther, a >West Texas Republican who ordered the children seized. > >Walther had ruled that there was ample evidence, in >the guise of the numerous underage pregnant teens in >state custody, to suspect that the FLDS promoted >underage marriage and sexual abuse. But lawyers >representing 38 FLDS mothers argued that Texas had >produced no evidence that every one of the seized >children was in jeopardy of sexual abuse. > >Child welfare officials said they were mystified by >the appeals court's ruling, saying that the department >had "removed children from the Yearning for Zion Ranch >after finding a pervasive pattern of sexual abuse."

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