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Jeffs Gets Two Terms on Rape Charges

Polygamy leader sentenced as accomplice in Utah

By Neal Colgrass, Newser Staff

Posted Nov 20, 2007 5:45 PM CST

(Newser) – Polygamous sect leader Warren Jeffs received consecutive five-year-to-life terms today for two counts of accomplice to rape, the Salt Lake Tribune reports. A Utah judge also made him pay $18,500 on each count of forcing an underage girl to marry in 2001 at the... Read full story »

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