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NEWS ABOUT: Warren Jeffs

Warren Jeffs stories: 26 news summaries

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 Nearly 200 Pulled From
 Polygamists' Ranch 

State workers question kids about abuse, neglect claims

Apr 5, 08 6:56 PM CDT
(Newser) - State workers bused out dozens more women and children today from the Texas compound of a polygamous sect, CNN reports. Troopers and child protection officers have removed 183 people, 137 of them children, since sealing off the ranch Thursday night. Investigators are now interviewing the kids, most of them girls,... More »

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rape • sexual abuse • polygamy • Warren Jeffs • Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints

Texas Pulls 52 Kids From Sect Compound

Rape charge sparks move at Warren Jeffs' polygamy site

Apr 4, 08 7:20 PM CDT
(Newser) - Texas authorities pulled 52 kids from the compound of a polygamous sect today after a girl said she was raped there, the Houston Chronicle reports. Eighteen of the children were bussed out by court order, based on claims of abuse or neglect, and put into temporary custody. State troopers are... More »

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Texas • Arizona • rape • child abuse • polygamy • fundamentalism • Utah • Warren Jeffs • Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints

Western Towns Rebuild Library Jeffs Destroyed

Books disappeared under reign of jailed Utah polygamist

Jan 21, 08 3:42 PM CST
(Newser) - Two tiny towns on the Utah-Arizona border are pushing to restock the shelves of their library, reports the Deseret Morning News, in a first step toward healing rifts caused by imprisoned polygamist Warren Jeffs. With Hildale, Utah, and Colorado City, Ariz., firmly in the grip of the Mormon splinter group's... More »

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polygamy • Utah • libraries • Mormon • Mormonism • Colorado • Warren Jeffs

Jeffs Gets
Two Terms on Rape Charges

Polygamy leader sentenced as accomplice in Utah

Nov 20, 07 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 Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ... More »

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prison • Arizona • rape • polygamy • Warren Jeffs • Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints

Jury Finds Polygamist Sect Leader Guilty

Jeffs convicted on
2 felony counts of
rape as accomplice

Sep 25, 07 5:20 PM CDT
(Newser) - Polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs was convicted today on two counts of rape as an accomplice for forcing a 14-year-old girl to marry her 19-year-old cousin. The jury reached a verdict just hours after one member was replaced for undisclosed reasons, the Salt Lake Tribune reports. Jeffs faces 5 years... More »

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rape • Utah • Warren Jeffs • Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints

Polygamist Boss Ordered Girl
to 'Surrender'
to Husband

Jeffs charged with rape as an accomplice

Sep 14, 07 4:05 AM CDT
(Newser) - Polygamist Warren Jeffs was accused yesterday of ordering a 14-year-old girl to surrender to her older cousin in an arranged marriage. That amounts to rape as an accomplice, prosecutors charged in the first day of Jeffs' trial. Church members consider their leader “God on Earth" who could only be... More »

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polygamy • Utah • Mormonism • Warren Jeffs • arranged marriage • Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints

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