Posted on 12/02/2010 5:09:54 AM PST by humblegunner
Polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs faced a Texas judge Wednesday more than two years after authorities discovered his followers married underage girls at an Eldorado ranch, prompting the removal of 438 children, the largest child custody case in U.S. history.
A wan Jeffs, 54, appeared before state District Judge Barbara Walther in San Angelo where he was arraigned on three charges involving two underage brides, unidentified girls who were 12 and 14 at the time of the alleged crimes.
He's accused of sexually assaulting one girl in 2005 and committing bigamy and aggravated sexual assault with the other girl in 2006.
If Jeffs, the self-appointed leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, a breakaway Mormon sect, is convicted on any one of the three charges, he could face as little as five years or as much as life in prison.
"This is a crime that occurred in the state of Texas and will be adjudicated here," said Jerry Strickland, spokesman for Texas Attorney General Gregg Abbott, whose office has so far prosecuted seven FLDS men.
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What a pervert.
I need not see the face of the girl in the photo to know, beyond any doubt that she will be effed up for life.
A Joseph Smith and Bringham Young literalist. Think of him as Mormon old testament.
Freaks, the lot of ‘em.
God is not amused when His children are abused in His name.
That’s big a’him.
Mohammed did the same things and muslims refer to Mohammed (above Jesus Christ who they “recognize” in their religious texts) as “the perfect man”.
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