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     COMMENTS: Scattered Across Texas

All three networks ran pictures of buses shipping the children of the Yearning for Zion ranch out of San Angelo for foster homes around Texas. ABC's Mike von Fremd (embargoed link) ticked off Amarillo and Houston and Abilene and Austin as their destinations. NBC's Don Teague explained that the children and teenagers include "underage mothers and girls who are pregnant" which may explain the increase in their number from 416. CBS' Randall Pinkston counted 437 involved in the mass custody case. ABC's von Fremd added that the DNA samples that were taken to establish which parents belong with which children may also be used against some fundamentalist Mormon fathers: "The court has the right to use the test results to prosecute any man who has impregnated an underage female."

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