Eldorado, USA - A second baby was born in Austin on Monday to a mother taken by the state from a polygamist group's ranch in West Texas, authorities said.
According to Texas Child Protective Services, the mother who gave birth to the baby boy at 11:15 a.m. is under the age of 18. But a spokesman for Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints said the mother is 22.
"She's an adult," said Rod Parker, FLDS spokesman.
She is one of 464 young people the state took from the FLDS' Yearning For Zion Ranch.
All of the children are in foster care and their parents are challenging the state's decision before the Third Court of Appeals and a Travis County district court.
The mother of the child born Monday and another young mother taken from the ranch who gave birth to a boy on April 29 in San Marcos are considered to be "disputed" minors, girls who once said they were adults but later told CPS they were not.
Shortly after the birth in Austin on Monday, CPS began emergency removal of the child from the mother, Parker said.
The first baby also was placed in state custody.