[Abigail Adams]

I posted this on another thread, but will post it here too:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080530/ts_nm/usa_polygamists_dc_2

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As part of that investigation, Texas officials on Friday obtained a DNA sample from Warren Jeffs, the leader of the breakaway Mormon sect.

Jeffs is in Arizona serving a prison sentence of 10 years to life for being an accomplice to rape by forcing a 14-year-old to marry her cousin.

“In the search warrant you will see that evidence was collected that Jeffs married four young girls,” said Jerry Strickland of the Texas Attorney General’s Office. “Two 12-year-olds, a 14-year-old and a 15-year-old. All of these marriages took place at the Yearning For Zion Ranch in Texas.”

[El Gato]

I posted this on another thread, but will post it here too:

Why? It's irrelevant to this judge defying the court above hers.

[wintertime]

Jeffs is in prison. So, how is his DNA relevant to the parents of the confiscated children?

[El Gato]

“In the search warrant you will see that evidence was collected that Jeffs married four young girls,” said Jerry Strickland of the Texas Attorney General’s Office. “Two 12-year-olds, a 14-year-old and a 15-year-old. All of these marriages took place at the Yearning For Zion Ranch in Texas.”

That statement does not agree in the details with the statements in the affidavit for the warrant. Mainly the ages are different, and the affidavit alleges that he "married" one of the girls, the oldest, but then 14, in Utah, that her baby was born in Utah when she was 16, and only latter did she move to the YFZ ranch in Texas.

Getting their allegations straight would not seem to be that difficult in so weighty a matter.