San Angelo, USA - Some of the children taken from a polygamist sect's ranch, placed in foster care and then returned to their parents could be headed back to foster care again.
Texas child welfare authorities are asking Texas District Judge Barbara Walther to put eight children, ranging in age from 5 to 17, back in state custody, alleging their mothers have refused to limit contact with men accused of being involved in underage marriages.
Individual hearings for the four mothers involved are scheduled to begin Monday.
"We continue to have concerns in particular for these eight children, which is why we have asked the judge to review the case," said Child Protective Services spokeswoman Marleigh Meisner.
None of the children currently live at the Yearning For Zion Ranch in Eldorado, where authorities swept roughly 440 children into foster care in April. Officials said at the time that the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, which established the ranch, was forcing girls into underage marriages and grooming boys to be adult abusers.