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  • (TX) Senate Panel Suggests Taking FLDS Sect's Assets to Cover Costs

    05/24/2008 4:50:41 PM PDT · by anymouse · 156 replies · 251+ views
    Star-Telegram ^ | May. 21, 2008 | JOHN MORITZ
    With the price tag of providing care for more than 400 children seized last month from a polygamist ranch in West Texas expected to reach the tens of millions of dollars, a legislative panel suggested Tuesday that the state explore garnisheeing the religious organization's assets to recoup the costs. "That compound didn't grow out of fairy dust," Sen. Robert Deuell, R-Greenville, said after a Senate Finance Committee hearing in which he urged state health officials to determine whether members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, or even the sect as a whole, should be held...