Merril and his merry wives. Except Carolyn, she sure looks sad.
Posted on 08/21/2008 6:29:23 PM PDT by Alice in Wonderland
A Schleicher County grand jury today handed down three new felony indictments in the state's polygamist sect investigation, a court clerk said.
Schleicher County District Clerk Peggy Williams said the indictments involve three individuals. It's unclear whether those individuals are new defendants or suspects already charged in the probe.
The identities of those individuals were not immediately available. Neither were the actual charges listed in the indictments.
The grand jury last month indicted six members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
Court hearings for those individuals is scheduled for Sept. 8, authorities said.
The grand jury plans to reconvene on Sept. 23, Williams said.
Sect spokesman Willie Jessop was one of six witnesses subpoenaed today. When asked about his testimony, Jessop told reporters: "We certainly believe there is a God. We believe he will judge all. Those who judge will be judged themselves."
In related action today, a case involving Lloyd Barlow, a physician at the sect's YFZ compound near Eldorado, was transferred to the Schleicher County court system. He is facing three charges of failing to report child abuse, a misdemeanor. He was among the six members of FLDS indicted last month.
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Good news! More pervs being indicted.
Imagine that.....
I would like to be on your FDLS ping list.
Thank you.
Not much info here but I am glad to find a FDLS ping alert. I will be foaming at the mouth against the apologists on this ping list. So delete me if you support this brutal social construct that may be the root of all evil.
I put you on the list!
The Molester Defender Cabal has been rather silent of late. Seems like the indictments have deflated their raging defense of the perverts.
Me, too, please. :)
(just trying to be helpful)
It’s FLDS, not FDLS.
Since many of the threads are under the keyword FLDS, if you search for FDLS, you won’t get squat.
Imagine that....there was child abuse.
Done!
Thanks.
Wendell Nielsen and Merril Jessop were ‘wedding’ witnesses on the batch of certificates that were entered as evidence in the custody hearing earlier this week, with Merril performing the ‘marriage’ of his 12-year-old daughter to Warren Jeffs. It's likely one or both of them were indicted . . . or maybe not. Both of them have disappeared.
The elements of the offense of Sexual Assault of a Child (Tex. PC Sec. 22.011) are:
- That the defendant intentionally or knowingly
- Caused the penetration of the sexual organ
- By any means
- Of a child younger than 17
- Who is not the legal spouse of the defendant
This means that the State must show that sexual activity took place with a minor, as evidenced by the birth of a baby to the minor, that the defendant was the one having the sexual activity, as shown by DNA results, and that they were not legally married, all beyond a reasonable doubt. The State must then show that the sexual activity, more likely than not, occurred within Schleicher County, and can show that with the fact that the marriage took place at the ranch and the birth was at the ranch, etc.
Very good news.
It would make my week if Merril Jessop was indicted.
That filthy, human, pathetic excuse for a man, ought to spend years in prison being at the beck and call of another man...
Merril and his merry wives. Except Carolyn, she sure looks sad.
Hey. HOw come Carolyn is the only one wearing the prairie dress?
Poor girl. She really does look miserable, and look at the hopelessness in her eyes...
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