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DNA Testing to Start Today for Polygamist Kids

A judge on Monday ruled that more than 400 children, taken into state custody from a polygamous community in West Texas, must be given access to phones to contact their attorneys, but refused to rule on a motion to allow breastfeeding mothers to remain with their children. Judge Barbara Walther called a motion for a temporary restraining order to prevent the mothers from being separated from their children "premature." Lawyers for several mothers had sought the order to keep the mothers and...Full Story
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