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A huge moral dilemma!
Under Texas law, if sexual abuse is occurring in a home and a parent does not stop it, then the parent can lose custodial rights. A major issue will be how a home is defined — whether by the individual house each child lived in or by the larger ranch.
If the judge gives the state permanent custody, it will have an enormous challenge in finding homes for the children. The agency has relied on volunteers to help feed the children, launder linens and provide crafts and games for them in a dorm-style setting for the past two weeks. But the agency will have to find stable homes and try to decipher sibling relationships that should be preserved if it gets permanent custody.
Even identifying groups of siblings has been challenging so far.
"There's quite a lot of difficulty in identifying how many of these children are biologically related to one another. There's a large number who are half-siblings," Gonzales said.
The sect came to West Texas in 2003. The judge also must decide whether it's in the best interest of children who have lived insulated lives to be suddenly placed into mainstream society, Hays said.
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