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Polygamous FLDS sect leader Warren Jeffs refuses Texas extradition
Utah prison officials say polygamous sect leader Warren Jeffs has refused to sign a warrant seeking his extradition to Texas to face criminal charges.
[...]Jeffs, 54, faces charges of bigamy, sexual assault of a child and aggravated assault in Texas. The charges stem from alleged marriages to one girl under 17 and another under age 14, both in 2005.
Jeffs is the ecclesiastical head of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. The Utah church, which has practices polygamy in arranged marriages that have sometimes involved underage girls.
The Texas charges stem from evidence gathered in a raid on a church ranch near Eldorado in April 2008.
Records confiscated during the raid indicated multiple marriages to underage girls, some as young as 12. Jeffs, according to the records, had dozens of wives; 58 were listed in the year before the alleged marriages that led to his indictment.
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See Also
• Arizona drops cases against polygamous sect leader Warren Jeffs (June 9, 2010)
Warren Jeffs A judge has dismissed two cases pending against Warren S. Jeffs in Arizona and ordered that he be sent back to Utah, a move that abruptly ends the state’s prosecution of the polygamous sect leader and potentially puts Jeffs on a faster track to face more serious charges in Texas.
Before being moved to Arizona, Jeffs was convicted in Utah in 2007 on two counts of being an accomplice to rape
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