Texas police arrest more than 200 sect members

Police raided the compound after receiving a telephone call from a 16-year-old girl who reported that she had been forced to bear the child of her 50-year-old husband. However, police have so far not been able to find the girl or her husband.

The leader of the church, Warren Jeffs, is serving a prison sentence for polygamy, incest and child abuse.

Source: Radio Netherlands

Wikipedia on The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints

The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS Church) is the largest Mormon fundamentalist denomination and one of America's largest practitioners of plural marriage. The FLDS Church emerged in the 1930s as an offshoot of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church); the split occurred largely because of the LDS Church's continued renunciation of polygamy and its decision to excommunicate practitioners of plural marriage in southern Utah and northern Arizona. There is no official connection between the FLDS Church and the LDS Church; they are distinct and separate denominations.

Since its inception, the headquarters of the FLDS Church have been in Hildale, Utah, which is a twin city with Colorado City, Arizona. However, news reports since 2004 have suggested a possible shift of the church's headquarters to Eldorado, Texas, where a temple has been built by FLDS Church members. As of 2007, the church was being led by Warren Jeffs, who succeeded his father Rulon Jeffs in 2002. For nearly two years, Warren Jeffs had been wanted on sex-crimes charges; and from May 2004 until his arrest in August 2006 he was on the FBI's Ten Most-Wanted List. On September 25, 2007, Jeffs was found guilty of two counts of being an accomplice to rape and was sentenced to ten years to life in prison.

Although news reports have circulated that Warren Jeffs had formally resigned as the president of the FLDS Church, the statement released by his attorneys reads as follows: "Mr. Jeffs resigned as President of the Corporation of the President of The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, Inc., on November 20, 2007."[9] It is possible that Warren Jeffs is still heading the FLDS church, as the narrowly crafted statement by his attorneys does not state that he stepped down as prophet of the church. William E. Jessop, Jeffs' first counselor in the FLDS church presidency, was named by Jeffs as his successor - even going as far as stating that Jeffs never was the leader of the FLDS,[10] but this has not necessarily been accepted by Jeffs followers, many of which claim Jeffs is still leading the church.

On April 4, 2008, troopers and child welfare officials arrived at the church's YFZ Ranch and removed over 200 children, placing 18 girls in temporary custody of the state, after responding to the alleged sexual abuse of a 16-year-old girl by a 50-year-old man.[24] On the following day, Judge Barbara Walther of the 51st District Court issued an order instructing officials to bring all children, including boys under age 18, out of the compound. [25] At least 180 people including 137 children were removed from the compound and taken for questioning at a nearby civic center.