Source: Deseret News

To nearly every question she was asked, Barbara Jessop gave the same answer: “I stand on the Fifth.”

“Can you name the children you have given birth to?” Texas Child Protective Services attorney Jeff Schmidt asked her during a contentious custody hearing here on Monday.

“I stand on the Fifth,” she replied stoically.

“What dates did you live at the YFZ Ranch?”

“I stand on the Fifth.”

“Is it wrong for a girl under 17 to marry a man more than 21 years older than she is?”

“I stand on the Fifth.”

Child Protective Services is seeking to remove seven FLDS children from their homes and place them in foster care.

They are among the hundreds taken in the April raid on the Fundamentalist LDS Church’s YFZ Ranch who were subsequently ordered returned a couple of months later. Two cases involving three children are being negotiated in hopes of a possible settlement.

“We’re hopeful that there will be an agreement and that the judge will hear it,” said CPS spokeswoman Marleigh Meisner.

At the hearing Monday, Jessop’s attorney said she didn’t want to answer the questions because they could incriminate her in a criminal investigation that is under way.

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