The long arm of the law has embraced our dear friend Warren
September 26th, 2007 by max linsky in News
Warren Jeffs, everyone’s favorite leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, was found guilty in a Utah court yesterday of two counts of “rape by accomplice.” Jeffs had been on the lam for 18 months before he was caught in Vegas (yup), and faces a slew of other charges in Arizona. The AP has details on the Utah case:
At their wedding in 2001 at a Nevada motel, the [then 14-year-old] woman said, she cried in despair when pressed by Jeffs to say “I do” and had to be coaxed to kiss her new husband. The woman testified that FLDS girls receive no information about their bodies or reproduction. She said she didn’t even know sex was the means by which women conceived.
The woman said the couple were married for at least a month before they had intercourse, and that her husband told her it was “time for you to be a wife and do your duty.”
According to the story, the husband — who was 19 when he married his cousin — hasn’t been charged.
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