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A Warren Jeffs Wife Flees Sect With Police Help

Woman, 25, is taken to shelter

By Mary Papenfuss,  Newser Staff

Posted Oct 13, 2011 1:23 AM CDT | Updated Oct 13, 2011 4:30 AM CDT

(Newser) – Police yesterday helped one of Warren Jeffs' numerous wives flee the polygamous community on the Utah-Arizona border that he still leads from behind bars. The woman, 25, "asked for assistance in leaving the community, and a deputy responded and facilitated that request," said a spokesman for Utah's Washington County police. She was taken to a woman's shelter following a tense standoff between members of Jeffs' Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and a community member whose house the young woman had fled to, reports the Salt Lake Tribune. Jeffs, 55, has at least 78 "wives," according to court documents. He was sentenced to life in prison in Texas for sexually assaulting two of them when they were 12 and 15.

Warren Jeffs appears in court last year in Utah.
Warren Jeffs appears in court last year in Utah.   (AP Photo/Trent Nelson, Pool)
A scene from an FLDS community.
A scene from an FLDS community.   (AP Photo/Douglas C. Pizac, File)
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COMMENTS
Showing 3 of 13 comments
Spudsy
Oct 13, 2011 10:26 PM CDT
Oh Mitt, what kind of madness has your wacky "jeebus walked around New York state burying gold plates" religion wrought now?
baalzevuv
Oct 13, 2011 2:33 PM CDT
Call me a Republican, but I can't say I would be disheartened to hear that this man was shanked in prison.
WallyEFunk
Oct 13, 2011 11:04 AM CDT
Just noted. This women has sympathy comments,and a call for justice and change. the "8 dead in Salon"  has jokes and gun right comments, and those 8 left behind have what 20-100 people that lives will be greatly effected. What is wrong with us ? Outrage and sympathy for one and ??? for the other.

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