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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]
Jeffs was extradited to Texas, to face trial on charges facing him there. The Texas jury found him guilty of sexual assault and aggravated sexual assault of children. [53] He was sentenced to life in prison plus twenty years, to be served consecutively, and a $10,000 fine, for sexual assault of both 12 and 15-year-old girls. [54]
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 ...
Warren Jeffs - Once President of Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (a polygamist Mormon sect), convicted of rape as an accomplice (overturned in 2010). Jeffs was convicted in a Texas state court of child sex charges and sentenced to life plus 20 years. He is incarcerated at the Powledge state prison.
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 ...
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 ...
In 2011, Jeffs was convicted in Texas on sexual assault charges unrelated to Wall's case, namely rape of a 15 year old girl and rape of a 12 year old girl. He was sentenced to life in prison plus 20 years. Since Jeffs would therefore be 100 years old by the earliest time he could be released from prison, Utah decided to drop the retrial. [24]
The victim was the 11-year old daughter of Mexican immigrants, living in Cleveland, Texas, a "timber town" [1] of about 9,000 people in the Greater Houston metropolitan area and Liberty County. Her father was a former construction worker , unemployed at the time for a year and a half because of a back injury, while her mother was working making ...