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Ex-FLDS bishop gets maximum sentence for marrying 12-year old to cult leader

The former bishop of a polygamy-sanctioning sect received the maximum sentence of 10 years and a $10,000 fine late Tuesday afternoon for conducting a marriage ceremony between a 12-year-old girl and the then-50-year-old sect leader, Warren Jeffs.

jurors took just under an hour to deliberate on the sentence of Fredrick Merril Jessop

FLDS member Leroy Johnson Steed sentenced to 7 years on no-contest plea

Leroy Johnson Steed, a member of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, was sentenced to seven years in prison Tuesday morning after pleading no contest to two counts of bigamy and one count of child sexual assault in 51st District Court.

Former FLDS bishop goes on trial over Warren Jeffs wedding to minor

Jury selection began Monday in the trial of a Fredrick Merril Jessop, a former bishop of a polygamist FLDS sect. Jessop is accused of officiating at the marriage of an underage girl to the sect’s leader, Warren Jeffs, who has since been sentenced to life in prison

Former FLDS President avoids prison

The former president of a polygamous sect pleaded no contest to three counts of third-degree bigamy this week and was sentenced to 10 years probation.

Wendell Loy Nielsen, who was once president of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, had been indicted after a raid on the Yearning for Zion Ranch in April 2008.

Former FLDS sect leader Wendell Nielsen challenges Texas bigamy law

A former polygamous sect leader facing bigamy charges in Texas is challenging that state’s bigamy law as unconstitutional.

In newly filed court documents in Schleicher County, Nielsen’s attorneys argue that the law unfairly targets groups with a religious belief in plural marriage.

Warren Jeffs is returned to prison after treatment

Warren Jeffs, the leader of the polygamist FLDS, sect has recovered from illnesses that sent him hopping to prison units and hospitals around Texas.

Because of fasts and other unspecified medical conditions, Jeffs needed medical treatment shortly after he was sentenced in early August to life plus 20 years in prison.

FLDS member still fighting Texas search warrant

A polygamous sect man convicted of sexual assault isn’t giving up his fight against the search warrant that led to a massive raid on the sect’s remote Texas ranch.

Attorneys for Michael Emack filed a motion for rehearing in the Texas Third Court of Appeals this week.

Police help plural wife of Warren Jeffs flee polygamous community

One of the wives of imprisoned polygamist leader Warren Jeffs has left him and the FLDS Church and is being sheltered by law enforcement

The Washington County, Utah Attorney is looking into allegations that the 25-year-old woman was held against her will and even drugged.

Now that the polygamist FLDS sect’s leader and prophet Warren Jeffs has been jailed for life plus 20 years, cracks may be showing in the group’s armor.

But life in the polygamist town of Colorado City hasn’t become any easier.

FLDS: Deals possible in 2 men’s cases

Polygamist sect members accused of child sexual assault and bigamy are looking at resolutions to their cases outside jury trials.

The resolutions could include plea deals.

Warrant issued for former Warren Jeffs bodyguard

A 5th District Court judge authorized a warrant Wednesday for the arrest of William R. Jessop, who once worked as bodyguard for jailed cult leader Warren Jeffs.

Jessops is believed to be in Switzerland.

Polygamist communities sent teens to work long hours for low pay

A polygamous sect in Bountiful, B.C. under scrutiny for its treatment of women has used its young men and women as a cheap source of labour, according to court documents and a former church member.

Dozens of young people – some from the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints sect in Bountiful but others from the United States – were sent to Sundre, Alta. to work for a post, timber and logging operation.

Cult leader Warren Jeffs out of hospital, heads to another prison

Polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs was en route to a Texas state prison Tuesday night following his discharge from a hospital at another prison where he was treated after becoming sick while fasting, a state official said.

Trial of former FLDS Frederick Merril Jessop bishop moved

The trial of Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints former bishop Fredrick Merril Jessop on a charge of conducting an illegal ceremony will be held in Coke County.

Jessop was indicted on charges that he conducted a ceremony prohibited by law by marrying an underage girl to Warren Jeffs, the church head of the FLDS in 2006.

Warren Jeffs files handwritten motion for new trial

In a handwritten motion, polygamous sect leader Warren Jeffs is asking for a new trial on sexual assault of a child charges in Texas.

The one-page motion is written in the same rambling, archaic style that characterized Jeffs’ speech at trial after he fired his team of high-profile attorneys.

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