Texas overstepped its authority when it removed some of the 460 children taken from a polygamist compound last month, a state appeals court ruled on Thursday.

Texas Child Protective Services last month raided the isolated compound in west Texas and removed the children in response to allegations of abuse.

But the court said that the state had not proven that the children were in immediate physical danger, and therefore were improperly separated from their parents.

“Essentially this decision from the Third Court of Appeals said that Child Protective Services had absolutely no evidence that would justify them going in there and removing these children from this household,” said Cynthia Martinez, who represents 48 of the mothers whose children were removed.

How will this effect the children and the parents…time will only tell, but the track of civil rights has been returned to…..maybe now the rights of the children will become more important than the harassment of a religious sect.