SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Child welfare authorities say the temporary care and shelter of women and children removed from a polygamous sect's Texas ranch cost the state more than $12.4 million.
Texas Department of Family and Protective Services spokesman Patrick Crimmins says the amount represents the final cost of the "San Angelo Mass Care Event."
An accounting of expenses following the raid on the Yearning from Zion Ranch - the Eldorado home of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints - was reported in a copyrighted story Friday by the Deseret News.
