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Standoff Ends at Polygamist Compound

Posted Apr 6, 08 10:24 AM CDT in US,  Crime & Courts 

(Newser) – Though "preparing for the worst," a SWAT team peacefully entered a polygamous sect's Texas compound after a tense standoff, the Salt Lake Tribune reports. They met limited resistance from members of the Mormon fundamentalist sect, and were continuing to search this morning for a 16-year-old girl believed to have had the child of the group's 50-year-old leader.

Almost 200 women and children have been taken away from the compound for questioning after the girl's initial report of sexual abuse. Officials told CNN that 18 of them who "had been abused or were at immediate risk of future abuse" were taken into custody. Authorities are searching building to building looking for any evidence linking the 16-year-old to sect leader Dale Barlow.

Sources Salt Lake Tribune, CNN

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A Texas State Trooper sits in his vehicle as he and others maintain a roadblock miles from a religious retreat built by polygamist leader Warren Jeffs, Sunday, April 6, 2008, in Eldorado, Texas.   (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)
Texas Parks and Wildlife State Game Warden's law enforcement vehicles make their way toward a religious retreat built by polygamist leader Warren Jeffs, Sunday, April 6, 2008, in Eldorado, Texas.   (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)
A Texas State Trooper is shown at a roadblock miles from a religious retreat built by polygamist leader Warren Jeffs, Sunday, April 6, 2008, in Eldorado, Texas.   (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)
Texas State Troopers maintain a roadblock miles from a religious retreat built by polygamist leader Warren Jeffs, Sunday, April 6, 2008, in Eldorado, Texas.   (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)
A Texas State Trooper exits his vehicle as he and others maintain a roadblock miles from a religious retreat built by polygamist leader Warren Jeffs, Sunday, April 6, 2008, in Eldorado, Texas.   (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez)
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