On Sunday, Texas Child Protective Services and law enforcement officials removed 219 people from a ranch belonging to a breakaway Mormon sect linked to jailed polygamist leader Warren Jeffs, but they were able to find the young woman, on whose complaints the raids were conducted. Officials say that she may be among the people who have already been taken from the ranch in a semi-arid area 120 miles northwest of San Antonio.

Patrick Crimmins, the spokesman for the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services, said, "We have now removed 219 people – 159 boys and girls and 60 adults.” He told that officials were still on the compound conducting their investigations.

Allison Palmer, a local prosecutor from a nearby county handling the case, said, "No arrests have been made and we are still trying to find this young woman. The young lady made more than one call seeking assistance. She is a young, underage mother with an older husband."

According to the local media reports, the removed people were bused out of Eldorado, nearly 200 miles northwest of San Antonio, but other law enforcement agents continued to search for more children and evidence at the 1,700-acre compound, the former site of an exotic game ranch. Texas authorities started raiding the ranch last week in response to allegations that a middle-aged man there had married and fathered a child with an underage girl. There were no reports of violence or resistance from residents.

Polygamy is illegal everywhere in the United States but the male followers of such sects typically marry one woman officially and take the others as "spiritual wives." In November, Warren Jeffs, the sect's controversial spiritual leader and self-proclaimed prophet was sentenced in a Utah court to 10 years to life in prison as an accomplice to rape for forcing a 14-year-old girl to marry her 19-year-old first cousin. He is presently in jail in Arizona awaiting trial on similar charges for arranged marriages there.