Three Tony Alamo ministry followers whose daughters were among six taken during a September raid of church properties in Fouke, Ark., want the court to appoint lawyers to represent them at the state’s expense.

“For the purposes of the record this motion was filed by (the parents) pro se,” said Marshall Moore, one of the Texarkana lawyers who represented the parents of two girls in custody proceedings before Circuit Judge Jim Hudson in November.

The parents, who all work as “volunteers” for the ministry, have managed to pay Moore a total of about $70,000 toward legal fee...

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