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Warren Steed Jeffs (born December 3, 1955) is an American cult leader who is serving a life sentence in Texas for child sexual assault following two convictions in 2011. He is the president of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, a polygamous cult based in Arizona. [8]
In 2006, FLDS Church leader Warren Jeffs was placed on the FBI Ten Most Wanted List; he was arrested in 2007 and in 2011 was convicted in Texas of two counts of child sexual abuse [20] and sentenced to life in prison. [21]
Jeffs has since been convicted of "sexual assault" and "aggravated sexual assault" and was sentenced to life in prison plus 20 years. But the convicted rapist still runs the church from his prison ...
The Yearning for Zion Ranch, or the YFZ Ranch, [1] was a 1,700-acre (690-hectare) Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS) community of as many as 700 people, located near Eldorado in Schleicher County, Texas, United States. In April 2014, the State of Texas took physical and legal possession of the property.
A polygamist religious leader who claimed more than 20 spiritual “wives” including 10 underage girls was sentenced to 50 years in prison on Monday for coercing girls as young as 9 years old to ...
Musser v. Utah, 333 U.S. 95 (1948) — polygamy not religious free speech; In re Black, 3 Utah 2d 315 (1955) [283 P.2d 887] [8] — raising children in a polygamist household is evidence of child neglect; the state can remove and retain custody of children while their parents unlawful cohabitation continues; Potter v.
The Texas Innocence Project estimates that Texas prisons contain 3,000 to 9,000 innocent people, which is about 2% to 6% of the total prison population. “All it takes is a false accusation and a ...
A six-month investigation of sexual abuse allegations by the Texas Child Protection Services in 1992 failed to turn up any evidence, possibly because the Branch Davidians concealed the spiritual marriage of Koresh to Rachel's younger sister, Michele, when she was 12, by assigning her a surrogate husband (David Thibodeau, who was 10 years ...