The parents of a 3-month-old say they are afraid Arkansas child welfare officials are going to take their baby in retaliation for an affidavit signed by the father and filed in federal court last week.

The affidavit, filed Sept. 15 by Carlos Parrish, is a document supporting allegations the Arkansas Department of Human Services acted in bad faith when it began taking the children of Alamo devotees in Sept. 2008. A lawsuit, filed on behalf of the ministry and two fathers, Bert Krantz and Greg Seago, accuses DHS of using a child abuse investigation to disband the controversial group....

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