Photos:: Protest of the court-ordered removal

A distraught Summer Page and her children watch as social workers take her 6-year-old foster daughter away. (Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times)

March 21, 2016 7:40 PM PT

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A 6-year-old girl who had been living with a foster family in Santa Clarita has been ordered by a court to be reunited with relatives in Utah. Neighbors gathered over the weekend to protest the relocation.

Rusty Page carries his foster daughter from his Santa Clarita home to authorities waiting to take her to relatives in Utah.

(Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times)

Praying neighbors fall to the ground crying as social workers removed a 6-year-old girl from her foster home in Santa Clarita.

(Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times)

Members of the Page family’s church community sang songs and prayed.

(Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times)

Television and other media covered Monday’s transfer of the child to social workers. Protesters have asked others to join their efforts to reunite the girl with the Page family.

(Francine Orr / Los Angeles Times)