Bullseye! I could care less about the polygamy angle as long as it's between consenting adults and they are raising and educating their children in a reasonably healthy environment. Girls under the age of seventeen having children with men more than three years their senior is the threshold of statutory rape in Texas. A reasonable compromise in my opinion. Find the men who broke this law and prosecute them. Return the children to their mothers and make it clear that we are watching. At this point, I think that this would be the best way to go.
Even if the men are arrested and charged, they will be out awaiting trial. What is to prevent the women from taking the children and moving to another of the cult's strongholds, where they change the names of the children and themselves?
The void of leadership will be filled by other perverts who have the same goals. Unless the states of AZ, UT, CO and SD and who knows what others clamp down, the only way I can see to lop off the head of the monster is to lop off the money sources and in the meantime it will be "business as usual down at the ol' compound".
The defenders of this cult can't seem to see ahead that far.
I think that’s a good solution. Separating the children from their mothers is cruel and the foster care system is lousy. My heart goes out to these children. I pray they can find a decent solution.