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FLDS Children Interviewed By Police Without Legal Counsel, Attorney Says
Posted May 16, 2008, 06:31 pm CDT
By Martha Neil
A lawyer for several of the approximately 465 children removed from a Texas ranch run by a religious sect that reportedly advocates polygamy says her clients and others throughout the state are being interviewed by authorities without their attorneys present.
While that apparently may be legal, as far as child welfare workers are concerned, it may be inappropriate in this case because of the close working relationship of child welfare workers and state police, a law professor at St. Mary's University tells the Houston Chronicle.
Laura Shockley, who represents three young women from the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints whose ages are disputed, says at least one of her clients was taken by… Continue reading...
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