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| US sect children set to go home | |
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| A judge in Texas has signed an order allowing parents to take home more than 400 children who had been removed from a polygamist sect. | |
| Parents were set to begin collecting their children, who were seized from the sect's ranch by authorities in April. | |
| State officials had accused sect members of abusing the children. | State officials had accused sect members of abusing the children. |
| But last week the state's Supreme Court said officials had failed to prove the children faced immediate danger. | |
| 'Grateful' | |
| Monday's ruling placed conditions on the parents, including prohibiting them from leaving the state without court permission and ordering them to take parenting classes, the Associated Press news agency reported. | |
| They were also ordered not to interfere with the investigation into child abuse and to allow the children to undergo medical tests if necessary, AP said. | They were also ordered not to interfere with the investigation into child abuse and to allow the children to undergo medical tests if necessary, AP said. |
| Willie Jessop, an elder for the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, said: "We're really grateful to get the order signed." | |
| The sect has always denied any abuse took place. |