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A group of women from a polygamist sect's Texas ranch returned to the compound Monday after authorities separated them from the 400-plus children now in state custody.

Rhonda Jeffs, mother of two of the children and a spokeswoman for the other women, said mothers of children 5 and older were told they could not remain with the children but could go back to the ranch or to a women's shelter.

The number of women who chose to return was not immediately known, but it appeared to be fewer than the 130 who had accompanied the children taken after an April 4 raid on the compound. Read full article »

CNN's David Mattingly, Katherine Wojtecki, Sean Callebs, Ismael Estrada and Eliott McLaughlin contributed to this report.

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