Posted on 08/08/2011 8:41:57 AM PDT by MizSterious
* By Matthew Waller
* San Angelo Standard Times
* Posted August 7, 2011 at 9:56 p.m., updated August 7, 2011 at 10:43 p.m.
SAN ANGELO, Texas Warren Jeffs' trial could end this week, depending on what a defense attorney chooses to do for the punishment phase of the polygamous sect leader.
The prosecution said it had about two solid days of testimony when the punishment phase of Jeffs' trial started late Thursday.
Earlier that day, Jeffs, 55, the leader and "prophet" of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, was convicted of aggravated sexual assault of a 12-year-old girl and of sexual assault of a 15-year-old girl.
The state alleges an array of "bad acts" by Jeffs, including six instances of illegal sexual conduct and taking part in hundreds of bigamous marriages, all before running from the FBI and threatening governments with God's judgment. He also had 78 of his own "wives," the state said, including 24 to underage girls.
The FLDS sanctions taking "spiritual" or "celestial" wives to circumvent bigamy laws.
The jury heard testimony amid the tears of two witnesses who claimed to have been victims of Jeffs, that he allegedly abused a girl who was almost 8 and a boy who was 5 more than 20 years ago.
"If I told anyone, I would burn in hell," Brett Jeffs said his uncle told him when he was allegedly raped in a bathroom while Warren Jeffs' brothers stood guard outside.
(Excerpt) Read more at gosanangelo.com ...
Another thing I read was that women have lost the “Momma Bear” instinct...
I think it is more like they dont have it for the children they are raising
Children are shuffled around the adult women until they dont know who their own mo0ther are
and their mothers dont have a bond with their own off spring...
When the children were resecued many of the 400 were not with their natural mothers
nor could they ID their own...
Pics of women holding hands with little girls were not the “Mom/daughter” relationships that the image appeared to portray
They were really pics of women with unrelated children...
Merely disinterested unpaid babysitters...
Miss Hannigan in praire dress
One of the mind tricks he played with the women of YFZ was to make them keep a suitcase packed. Whenever he got some transmission from one of his gods - or probably a tip from a spy, he sent them to one of the other ‘R's’ (Refuge) or parked them in a House of Hiding.
BTW: The R system is how many hours drive the compound is from Short Creek.
For example, Eldorado is a 17 hour drive from Short Creek. R-23 is 23 hours and so forth.
Carolyn Jessop went into that. All children belong to the priesthood - essentially the prophet, not the mother.
The brain washing is so intense that when she left her oldest daughter ran to the wife that was the ‘enforcer’ and told her Carolyn was stealing the prophets children.
Go figure.
Apparently, Colorado City is finally getting some much-needed law enforcement attention:
http://www2.az-independent.com/2011/07/31/feds-investigate-colorado-city/
When I see the apologists talk about ‘wholesome’ and family and bread baking - I know exactly where they are going.
They're going to say Jeffs was a bad man, but basically the FLDS is OK. They are good parents (except the water boarding) and the girls have free agency, there is no force (except being brain washed that you are going to the hell of all hells.) etc. Bank on it.
King Willie Jessop is waiting in the wings like Brigham Young was
Transfiguration and all...
the wife that was the enforcer
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Kinda like a kapo in a concentration camp
Smith and Jeffs...
Lifing the Veil of Polygamy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-iIOWOblW0&feature=fvsr
Who’d expect their holy prophet to come into town looking like this?
http://www.fox13now.com/news/kstu-photos-warren-jeffs-on-his-harley-20110808,0,7010152.photogallery
Nana, a lot of trucks pass through Short Creek running the AZ and UT scales. Because of the grades over Jacob Lake - I imagine a lot of them are running Jake brakes.
The flds should view pics of his sins & realize they’ve been scammed.
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I dont think the fLDS are allowed to have computers or look at the Internet
No TV radios etc
Even the mainstream Mormons are told which websites they can look at
in the dorms and apartments at BYU there are certain websites that are blocked
and they are not naughty ones...
I hope they nail his butt in jail.
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Meanwhile just like Joseph Smith did each time he was arrested, Jeffs still controls and runs his harem from jail...
Warren Jeffs and one of his wives...
I call her the wily coyote.
Thanks.
They look alike, almost like siblings in this picture.
Is she his favorite wife or the one who trains the little girls? I don’t see any long skirt. She must have had some power to get her own bike & lose the dress.
That’s what I thought too!
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