Showing my ignorance here, but what is that and where is it? Thanks!
Jeffs is the "prophet" of a fundamentalist sect that split off from the mainstream Mormon church. His sect continues to believe in practicing polygamy as taught by the Mormon church from 1831 to 1890 (or 1904), as practiced by Mormon prophets Joseph Smith and Brigham Young, and other prophets, leaders, and members, and as still in Mormon religious canon, most specifically Doctrines & Covenants 132.
There are certain cities in Utah (and in other states with a large LDS population) where there are pockets of Mormon fundamentalists who still practice polygamy under different prophets than the mainstream LDS church. The States of Utah and Arizona, for example, only deal with food stamp fraud and child abuse. The website for the Utah Attorney General says that the office has elected not to prosecute polygamy.
Jeffs opened another compound in Texas. There, he took child brides (as young as twelves, if I remember) and had ritual sex with on an obscene altar-like bed as others watched. Unlike Utah, the State of Texas didn't mess around. it prosecuted him. He's in jail. From there, he's still controlling his brainwashed mess who thinks its church is run by a man who is the Prophet, Seer and Revelator of God.
Would you like links to some of the articles about his trial, the teenage boys who are kicked, homeless, out of polygamist compounds because they are rivals for the young girls (the 'lost boys")? Places like Hilldale?
It's a fascinating sociological story if you have the stomach for it.
According to the evidence the white steps are provided for the kneeling of other spirit wives to observe the consummation, and record it.
I believe, at this time, it is on the third floor of the temple inside the fLDS compound outside of Eldorado, TX which is approximately 30 miles north of Sonora, TX.
For further information try searching “Warren Jeff's Trial.”
That is the bed on the 3rd floor of the FLDS temple in Texas. It was used to restrain little girls while Jeff raped them in front of his other ‘wives’. Rather than fight back, the wives were the ones who restrained the girl that is in the recordings.
Don’t get me started on how evil these people are. And some here think they aren’t harming anyone.