One of the young polygamist-sect teenage girls taken into state custody gave birth to a healthy boy at Central Texas Medical Center. The officials of the state Child Protective Services, who stood outside the maternity ward, reported that the boy and the mother were doing well.

Patrick Crimmins, spokesman for the state Child Protective Services, reported, "The boy is healthy and the mother is doing well. The mother is younger than 18, and will remain with her new son in a nearby foster-care facility until a formal custody hearing will determine the pair's fate sometime before June 5.”

Crimmins, who declined to give any other details about the girl or where she and the baby would stay, reported that the girl's mother was present for the birth, but he didn't know who informed her that her daughter was in labor.

Rod Parker, a spokesman for the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, a renegade Mormon sect, claimed that the girl is 18, but the State officials said that the girl is on a list of minors taken into state custody.

According to the Child protection officials in Texas, more than half of the teenage girls in the group have either borne children or are pregnant. Total 463 children were taken into care, out of which 250 are girls and 213 boys. The group includes 53 girls aged 14 to 17, 31 of whom, have either had children or are pregnant. Under Texan law it is illegal for children under 17 to marry without parental permission. The relationships sanctioned within the sect are understood to be so-called "spiritual marriages" not recognized by the state.