Security Increased for FLDS Hearing Today

Deseret News ^ | Tuesday, June 24, 2008 | Ben Winslow and Pat Reavy

[Alice in Wonderland]

SAN ANGELO, Texas — A court-appointed attorney for a 16-year-old FLDS girl caught up in a grand jury investigation will go to court today under armed guard. Natalie Malonis confirmed to the Deseret News she has received death threats since she sought a restraining order against a high-profile member of the Fundamentalist LDS Church to prevent him from contacting her client.

"I've been getting death threats and I am being provided a security detail," she said this morning. "That was not even at my request. Law enforcement recognized the need for it."

Malonis said she did not know who has made the threats. She represents four FLDS members — including Pamela Jeffs, for whom she was praised by FLDS supporters when she managed to secure additional rights in court for the woman once declared by Texas authorities to be a minor.

Malonis' 16-year-old client, meanwhile, has fired off several e-mails asking her to step aside.

In e-mails sent to the Deseret News and posted on pro-FLDS Web sites, Teresa Jeffs accuses her court-appointed lawyer of not acting in her best interest.

"My attorney is going against my wishes. Maybe you need a restraining order that you can absolutely have nothing to do with me and you have to stay 1,000 feet away from me! What do you think of that?" she wrote in an e-mail to Malonis.

Jeffs has been subpoenaed to testify Wednesday before a grand jury investigating crimes involving FLDS members. The Texas Attorney General's Office said it could not find Jeffs to subpoena her, and Malonis went to court seeking a restraining order against FLDS member and spokesman Willie Jessop. In court papers, she accused Jessop of coercing the girl to avoid the subpoena and interfering with her relationship with her client. Judge Barbara Walther signed a temporary restraining order that technically prevents Jeffs' mother from allowing her daughter to have any contact with Jessop. A hearing on a more permanent restraining order will be held this afternoon.

On Monday, Malonis said she spoke with the attorney for Jeffs' mother, but no agreement could be reached.

"I hoped we could, but no ... ," she told the Deseret News.

Malonis said she is prepared to call witnesses and present evidence to suggest that the girl is being intimidated and pressured by FLDS members. The judge is not expected to consider Jeffs' request for a new lawyer.

Rod Parker, a Salt Lake attorney acting as a spokesman for the FLDS, believes Malonis is not following her court-appointed duties. Because Malonis is Teresa Jeffs' attorney ad litem and not her guardian ad litem, her job is to be an advocate for the child, he said.

"I think that she's really out on a limb in doing what she's doing and injuring her own client in a very public way," Parker said. "This is just a very unhealthy and dysfunctional attorney-client relationship. The court ought to grant Teresa's wish and give her another lawyer. This system of justice does not work appropriately when attorneys and their clients are at odds with each other." When the Texas Supreme Court ordered the hundreds of children taken in the April 3 raid to be returned to their parents, Jeffs was exempted.

Malonis said in court papers it was because the girl was an identified sex-abuse victim who had been "spiritually united" to an older man at 15. A special order was put in place for Jeffs, preventing her from contacting her father — FLDS leader Warren Jeffs — and a man named Raymond Jessop, who was not further identified.

The Deseret News normally does not name sex-abuse victims, but the girl has gone public in media interviews and in an e-mail forwarded to the Deseret News. She insists she is not a victim. In her e-mail, the girl said neither Willie Jessop nor Raymond Jessop has ever threatened her.

"That have treated (sic) so very kindly," she wrote.

Jeffs wrote in the communication with Malonis that she did not want the grand jury subpoena, but acknowledged being served.

"Well, they want me to appear before a grand jury. I do not have confidence in you and how can I get you to help me in such a situation that I am in when it feels like to me all you are doing is going against me," she wrote. "So, that is the reason that I am asking you to step aside and let me do what I need to do to and get me a different attorney."

[ejonesie22]

Can you give me the tenants of FastCoyoteism, it sounds interesting ;-)

I mean if L Ron and Joe can do it...

But please , no aliens or funky glasses..

[colorcountry]

Jim, it doesn’t pay to be on the wrong side of Mormonism, ask anyone who has run “afowl” (speaking of shitbirds). Since I left the ‘onetruechurch’ I’ve found out just how much this is true. You MUST support Romney or you are perceived as an anti-mormon bigot!

“You can check out any time you like,
but you can never leave...”

[ejonesie22]

Ah, but with the advent of the Internet, the facts of your faith, the true words of your prophet that have remained hidden away for so long are finally fully accessible.

The “we are just like you” sales pitch of your missionaries grows weaker with the passing of time....

“Certified” by Joe Smith of course...

[ejonesie22]

ROTFLMAOX1000...

From a supporter of the Shiniest Bright Object of all...

Damn, just damn, man you are killing me...

[ejonesie22]

I was laughing at them along time ago, the first time they said Mitt was the new Reagan, and a good Conservative...

Damn, still makes me giggle...

[ejonesie22]

Hell, he has been leaking oil for months...

And that Rod knock I have heard for some time...

[ejonesie22]

LOL...

Damn..

Your “Prophet” is not saying other Christians are “wrong” he is say we are of the devil, we are damned, we are the false church, we are Condemned...

Ant then you guys come along and want to be seen as fellow Christians...

Right...

Tell you what, when the Methodist say the Baptist of of the devil, and that you have to both be atoned by Jesus' blood as well as your own, and have John Wesley's “Certification” as well to get into heaven, call me...

[ejonesie22]

Man, I am typing too fast. I do that when I laugh so hard...

[rightazrain]

*GIGGLE* 2

[FastCoyote]

[Can you give me the tenants of FastCoyoteism, it sounds interesting ;-) I mean if L Ron and Joe can do it...]

FastCoyoteism is very simple: I am God, this is My Planet, and you must vote for me (because to object to my religion that says you must vote for me is "socially unacceptable").

[But please , no aliens or funky glasses.. ]

Sorry to disappoint you on that account, but we have all those things and more. Especially appealing to initiates is the sacred temple of love garments (which must never be published or ridiculed, that's the Rule!).

Nor should you ever make fun of my special "Prophecy Glasses"

And ALIENS! Don't get me started on ALIENS! ! ! !

[Clara Lou]

Hi, jonesie. What I want to know is this: Where’s the ZOT?

[Osage Orange]

BTTT

[ejonesie22]

Ok, well it does sound good. I don’t have Chicken suit but do have a Gorilla one. That wouldn’t make me a heretic would it?

[FastCoyote]

[Ok, well it does sound good. I don’t have Chicken suit but do have a Gorilla one. That wouldn’t make me a heretic would it?]

You are in luck! Gorilla suits are the the undergarments of the High FastCoyote Priesthood! (That is a secret never to be divulged, by the way). We can’t even mention what the LowPriesthood are forced to wear (pink Speedos).

Please remember though, one must never make fun of my religion or I will take offense.

[WVKayaker]

Please remember though, one must never make fun of my religion or I will take offense.

Well, sir, I am offended. I am a true believer in Kayakism. We originated the swirlie, as our secret sign. We wear special "spray" skirts, and cannot remove them except on the New River.

But, we are ecumenical, so we will try to find some yellow feathers to decorate our decks.

[Graybeard58]

I wonder if this still applies?

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2035699/posts?page=602#602

To: Reaganesque

Whatever pal. He ran and governed as a big government abortionist liberal. I don’t give a squat about his religion.

If you don’t like the way I run FR, why don’t you just take a freaking hike.

603 posted on Monday, June 30, 2008 5:12:07 PM by Jim Robinson

[WVKayaker]

We can’t even mention what the LowPriesthood are forced to wear (pink Speedos).

Only our highest order can wear pink... You are being sacrilegious, and mocking my religion. Next you will say our special goggles are not able to decipher the Union and Thumbing. I am running for president, too.

Our Thumbing sign is not kept secret though. It works to save sacred gasoline.

[JRochelle]

The trojan horse was Romney trying to pose as a conservative.

[FastCoyote]

Yeah, but this is My Earth and I’ll cry if I want to! Although a Holy kayak trip right now sounds oh so inviting.

[JRochelle]

Several years ago I read the book Under the Banner of Heaven. Those whackos were similar or were FLDS. I'm not sure of the exact cult they belonged to but they became murderers.
The book gives a lot of history and context as to how cults like the FLDS can flourish.

I recommend it highly.