More than 400 children have been rescued from a polygamist sect on a remote Texas ranch amid allegations of forced marriage and sexual abuse.
The children, mostly girls wearing pioneer-era dresses, were removed from the Yearning for Zion ranch yesterday in what authorities described as the largest child-welfare operation in Texas history.
The raid was triggered by a phone call from a 16-year-old girl living in the compound who claimed that she was being abused and that girls as young as 14 were being forced to marry much older men.
