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Updated: 2:36 PM- SAN ANGELO, Texas -- All the children taken from the YFZ Ranch are out of state custody and have been reunited with parents, the sect said Wednesday afternoon.

Just 53 children had been waiting at shelters - by the end of business Tuesday, 397 FLDS children had been released to their parents.

"It's gone pretty smoothly," said Patrick Crimmins, a spokesman for the Department of Family and Protective Services.

But also with some sadness for caretakers who watched over the children for nearly six weeks.

Dan Adams, director of Cal Farley's Boys Ranch in Amarillo said he had been impressed by the 72 boys that stayed there. "We've found this to be a good experience for us," Adams said.

Employees tried to not be judgmental about the court action that resulted in the boys coming to the ranch or about their parents, all members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

"It seems to have worked," he said. "I don't think they are leaving with any bad experiences."

And the staff "developed some fondness for the boys. They were intelligent, good-humored."

Older boys helped younger ones prepare emotionally for staggered departures that resulted as parents drove hither and yonder to retrieve children, Adams said.

A 16-year-old whose released was delayed a day also joined her mother after 51st District Judge Barbara Walther set additional conditions.

The attorney for the girl, who is the daughter of sect leader Warren S. Jeffs and wife Annette, alleged she had been abused and may have a child.

The judge ordered Annette Jeffs to keep her daughter away from her father, as well as a man named Raymond Jessop. She also said the girl may not go to the YFZ Ranch and must stay in Bexar or an adjoining county.

Also released: 26 mothers whose ages the state disputed, leading DFPS to treat them as minors while in custody. Those women were among 31 females the state claimed were underage mothers, a tally that turned out to include one 14-year-old who had never been married or had a child.

Crimmins said once the state compiles address lists of the families it will re-allocate caseworkers to monitor them.

The department will likely scrap the specialized parenting classes it planned to make parents take. The order signed by 51st District Judge Barbara Walther on Monday requires only that they take "standard" classes, he said.

Crimmins also said that the "first use" the department will make of DNA reports is to determine family relationships. Then, it will see if the 599 or so reports "can be used in the [abuse] investigation."