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Apr 30, 2008 11:10 am US/Central

CPS Says Polygamists' Kids Have History Of Injury

AUSTIN (AP) ― The chief of state protective services is telling legislators that investigators have uncovered a history of physical injuries, including broken bones, in children taken from a polygamist sect.

Commissioner Carey Cockerell, who oversees the state agency now caring for the children, said medical examinations have revealed numerous physical injuries, including broken bones in "very young children."

Cockerell also told a state legislative committee that mothers who stayed with their children in state custody launched a coordinated effort to stymie investigators, coaching their children to not answer questions.

State authorities raided a ranch owned by the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints on April 3. More than 450 children are in state foster facilities from the raid.

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