With 6 women asking to NOT go back to the camp and instead stay with their kids in town, I'd suggest they have all the evidence they need that the group was violating Texas laws.
Reading through your front page I caught wind of your being in the intermountain West just past Idaho. Got some relatives in the area ~ Christmas Valley ~ all of 'em belong to the local Apostolic Charismatic Church of the First Born .... bet you know exactly where that is don't you!
All you have is proof that these women chose to stay with their kids. Bear in mind the children are not allowed to return to the ranch so if the mothers wish to stay with their kids they cannot return to the ranch, either. That they made the choice to stay with their kids is being spun to make it look like they want to leave the ranch when that isn't completely true.
...and there is no apology here Mamzelle. I believe that this sect/cult should be investigated and that any crimes should be prosecuted to the max.
But, with all due respect, the fact that there are a number of pregnant teenage girls does not mean that laws (at least of this day and time) have necessarily been broken. If you are going to arrest large numbers of people because teenage girls are pregnant, you better be prepared to shut down the entire inner cities, large swaths of the suburbs, and large tracts of rural America tomorrow.
There are hundreds of thousands of them all around us...which is sadly and tragically a sign of the decline in our moral values and the laws that used to support them, and public policy that used to seek avidly to deter such conditions. Today public welfare laws and public sex education leans much further towards encouraging it. Which is a societal tragedy itself.
Having said all of that, I am just very concerned that the authorities may have acted prematurley and opened the door for lawsuits and legal appeals to what they have done. If that occurs, it will end up adding more money to these people's coffers and make it harder to do investigations in the future. And that would be much worse for the girls in there.
To date the girl has not been found, and it has been shown that the man she was alluding to was apparently in Arizona the whole time.
I hope they find the girl and show that her story was accurate...but I do not hope that over the rights of these other people even if I vehmenently disagree with their theology and religion. The authorities need to do excellent investigative work and have very strong cases in matters like these.
Then they'd best charge someone, some particular individual or individuals, with those violations.