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fox13now.com
February 2, 2018
FLDS leader Lyle Jeffs, the brother of imprisoned polygamous leader Warren Jeffs, is currently serving a 5-year prison sentence for his role in the scheme. The state, which administers the federal government's SNAP program, can now conduct its own review since the case has been adjudicated. But someÃÂ ...
Indianapolis Star
January 31, 2018
AUSTIN, Texas — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott on Tuesday directed the Texas Rangers to launch an investigation into the allegations of sexual assault of athletes at the Karolyi Ranch in Walker County. Karolyi Ranch, 67 miles north of Houston and started in the early 1980s by the famed husband-and-wifeÃÂ ...
Daily Hornet
January 23, 2018
Sex with girls, ages 8 to 14 years old, was initiated by Warren Jeffs, along with leadership of UEP Trust and the FLDS Church, including the Twelve Apostles of the Church engaging in and witnessing the sexual relations between Warren S. Jeffs, Lyle Jeffs, Seth Jeffs and Wendell LeRoy Nielsen and otherÃÂ ...
New Zealand Herald
January 17, 2018
Telling her story was vital so other church members could know who Warren Jeffs was so they could make an informed decision to leave the church, she told Newstalk ZB. "I wanted them to know the truth about him. "He taught against what he did. He taught against the abuse and made people think he wasÃÂ ...
Central Telegraph
January 12, 2018
Her father, the criminal cult leader Warren Jeffs, placed her hand on his penis and started moving it up and down as she tried to snatch it away. When she turned her head, he grabbed her chin and forced her to watch. "Rachel, look," he said. "This is what a man looks like ... See how a man goes hard whenÃÂ ...
The Weekly Times
January 12, 2018
Her father, the criminal cult leader Warren Jeffs, placed her hand on his penis and started moving it up and down as she tried to snatch it away. When she turned her head, he grabbed her chin and forced her to watch. “Rachel, look,” he said. “This is what a man looks like ... See how a man goes hard whenÃÂ ...
Salt Lake Tribune
January 10, 2018
Rachel Jeffs, one of Warren Jeffs' daughters, said pursuing her father and uncles in court — much less the UEP — only hurts others. If damages are awarded, the Jeffs brothers will make their followers pay, she said, either through the loss of church assets or with cash they will demand from the faithful.
Salt Lake Tribune
January 9, 2018
Colorado City, Ariz. • Dawn Bistline-Cooke and her husband couldn't pay their power bill. They struggled to afford diapers. Their truck had been repossessed. And at priesthood meetings, leaders of the FLDS Church reminded her husband to contribute up to $1,000 a month toward the storehouse and legalÃÂ ...
Salt Lake Tribune
January 8, 2018
Colorado City, Ariz. • Dawn Bistline-Cooke and her husband couldn't pay their power bill. They struggled to afford diapers. Their truck had been repossessed. And at priesthood meetings, leaders of the FLDS Church reminded her husband to contribute up to $1,000 a month toward the storehouse and legalÃÂ ...
fox13now.com
January 5, 2018
The police department was accused of being loyal to polygamist leader Warren Jeffs. A jury sided with the feds and the towns have been implementing court-ordered changes. FLDS faithful remain loyal to Jeffs, who is serving a life sentence for child sex assault stemming from underage "marriages.".
St George News
January 3, 2018
GEORGE — High-ranking leaders of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints are accused of carrying out a “calculated plan” of ritualistic sex abuse involving girls as young as eight years old in a lawsuit filed last week against FLDS President Warren Jeffs, along with other officials inÃÂ ...
KUTV 2News
December 29, 2017
(KUTV) — Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints President Warren Jeffs, in addition to other church leaders and its former land trust, face accusations of carrying out a "calculated plan" to sexually abuse underage girls as part of religious rituals, according to court documents filed Wednesday.
Newsweek
December 29, 2017
A group of Mormon cult leaders is being charged with organizing sexual religious rituals with underage girls and threatening them with damnation if they did not participate, according to court documents filed in Salt Lake City, Utah, on Wednesday. Defendants Warren Jeffs, Lyle Jeffs, Seth Jeffs and WendellÃÂ ...
Salt Lake Tribune
December 28, 2017
The lawsuit also cites for alleged wrongdoing the United Effort Plan Trust, Warren Jeffs' brothers Lyle and Seth Jeffs, former FLDS President and convicted ... However, under Warren Jeffs' leadership, the lawsuit's plaintiff — a 21-year-old woman identified as R.H. — says a new practice involving ritualisticÃÂ ...
fox13now.com
December 27, 2017
SALT LAKE CITY -- A new lawsuit accuses Fundamentalist LDS Church leader Warren Jeffs and others in the church of ritualistic sex abuse involving girls as young as eight years old. The lawsuit, filed Wednesday in state court by a 21-year-old woman only identified as "R.H.," levels allegations of abuseÃÂ ...
Salt Lake Tribune
December 26, 2017
In 2005, Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff moved to seize the UEP out of concern that FLDS President Warren Jeffs was mismanaging it — putting people at risk of losing their homes and furthering Jeffs' own lawbreaking. A state judge in Salt Lake City still maintains oversight of the trust, though he hasÃÂ ...
Southern Poverty Law Center
December 18, 2017
Federal prosecutor Rob Lund countered that, saying Lyle Jeffs has “broken laws for years, including presiding over marriage ceremonies to underage brides, violating child-labor laws and other misdeeds ordered by his brother, FLDS President Warren Jeffs,” the newspaper reported. Warren Jeffs is servingÃÂ ...
Good4Utah
December 14, 2017
He was referring to Warren Jeffs, the FLDS prophet who is serving a life sentence in a Texas prison. Lyle Jeffs was the other. "I felt like the issues were so egregious that it's time to step up and start talking," he said about his statements to the FBI. Barlow claimed he was there when Jeffs unveiled the schemeÃÂ ...
BBC News
December 13, 2017
His brother and former Mormon leader Warren Jeffs was jailed in 2011 on child sexual assault charges. Warren Jeffs, the former president of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS), was found guilty of forcing two underage girls into "spiritual marriage" and fathering a childÃÂ ...
Salt Lake Tribune
December 13, 2017
Thomas Jeffs, son of Lyle Jeffs, right, and Roy Jeffs, son of jailed polygamous leader Warren Jeffs, leave the federal courthouse Wednesday, Feb. 24, 2016, in Salt Lake City. Lyle Jeffs and another polygamous sect leader in Utah are pleading not guilty to orchestrating what prosecutors call a wide-rangingÃÂ ...
fox13now.com
December 12, 2017
Lyle Jeffs, the brother of FLDS leader Warren Jeffs and considered the one who orchestrated the fraud case, is scheduled to be sentenced Wednesday morning in federal court. Lyle Jeffs was a fugitive for about a year after slipping out of a GPS monitoring device. He was arrested in June in South Dakota.
Newsweek
November 14, 2017
Rachel Jeffs thinks about the young girls living on the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints compound in Utah “every day, all the time." They live in a repressive religious community, cut off from the outside world and often married to men twice their age by the time they turn 18.
PEOPLE.com
November 10, 2017
Rachel Jeffs, a daughter of polygamist FLDS sect leader Warren Jeffs, says he sexually molested her when she was as young as 8 years old, leading her to ask herself, “If my father is doing this and the world is wickeder, are the world's fathers even worse than this?” In an exclusive interview with NBCÃÂ ...
Salt Lake Tribune
September 5, 2017
FILE - In this Nov. 30, 2012, file photo, Elissa Wall attends a community meeting regarding the United Effort Plan (UEP) trust, in Colorado City, Ariz. The Utah Supreme Court is weighing a lawsuit filed by Wall who says polygamous leader Warren Jeffs forced her to marry her cousin when she was 14. Wall isÃÂ ...
BuzzFeed News
December 31, 1999
When Warren Jeffs came to power in 2002, everything that had made Short Creek feel alive was gradually taken away. Dogs, books, basketball. School. The Fourth of July. Friends and parents and siblings, especially men, were sent away to “repent” so that Jeffs and those in his inner circle could take theirÃÂ ...
Southern Poverty Law Center
December 31, 1999
The plaintiff, now 21 years old, accuses Warren Jeffs, along with his brothers Lyle Jeffs and Seth Jeffs, and Wendell LeRoy Nielsen — all leaders in the ... Warren Jeffs' child sexual assault convictions in Texas stem from his fathering a child with the 15-year-old victim and an audio recording of him rapingÃÂ ...
CBS Local
December 6, 2017
“I think that's been the fundamental issue for either the FLDS under Warren Jeffs or these other splinter groups you're seeing here,” Singular said. “They want to practice this in their own way apart from the laws of the United States.” Singular credits the police response and Amber Alert with potentially saving ...
Newsweek
December 6, 2017
In 2011, Warren Jeffs, the leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, was found guilty of marrying off underage girls to top-ranking church officials. The case of Elizabeth Smart, a young Mormon girl who was kidnapped as a teenager in 2002 by a homeless man who called ...
Here And Now
December 5, 2017
The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints is a polygamous group known for its leader Warren Jeffs, who is currently serving a life sentence for the sexual assault of a child. Those who leave the group are deemed "apostates," and shunned by their families. Sarah Ventre of KJZZ reports ...
St George News
December 2, 2017
Jeffs, once a bishop in the FLDS Church, became a fugitive from those charges after he fled home confinement to carry out the dictates of Warren Jeffs, according to federal prosecutors. Lyle Jeffs went on the run in June 2016 after a judge released him to home confinement pending trial. Warren Jeffs, who ...
In Touch Weekly
November 26, 2017
... it was her father, infamous Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints leader Warren Jeffs, who fostered an evil environment.
Calgary Herald
November 24, 2017
Rachel's father is Warren Jeffs, the prophet of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS). He's in a Texas prison ...
Vancouver Sun
November 23, 2017
Under orders from Warren Jeffs — her father and the FLDS prophet — church members can't speak to apostates. Photos of them are destroyed.
Vancouver Sun
November 22, 2017
Rachel's father is Warren Jeffs, the prophet of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS). He's in a Texas prison ...
lakepowelllife
November 13, 2017
Tomorrow across the country HarperCollins Publishers will release the book, “Breaking Free: How I Escaped Polygamy, the FLDS Cult and My ...
AOL
November 13, 2017
Mexican authorities have deported a polygamist disciple of Warren Jeffs back to the U.S., where he faces law enforcement scrutiny in three ...
Business Insider
November 10, 2017
Rachel Jeffs, the daughter of polygamist cult leader Warren Jeffs, spoke out on "Megyn Kelly Today" about the sexual abuse she endured at her ...
Today.com
November 10, 2017
Continuing her live interview with Megyn Kelly, Rachel Jeffs, daughter of Warren Jeffs, founder of a notorious polygamist group, describes how ...
Today.com
November 10, 2017
For the first time, Rachel Jeffs, daughter of Warren Jeffs, the self-proclaimed prophet of the FLDS Church, is speaking out about her father and ...
RollingStone.com
November 10, 2017
Then along came Warren Jeffs in the late 1990s, inheriting the prophetic mantle from his father, and everything changed. Jeffs' bizarre rules (no ...
PEOPLE.com
November 10, 2017
Rachel Jeffs, a daughter of polygamist FLDS sect leader Warren Jeffs, says he sexually molested her when she was as young as 8 years old, ...
Los Angeles Times
November 9, 2017
The breakaway sect's leader, Warren Jeffs, a self-professed prophet, is serving life in prison for sexually assaulting two underage followers ...
Pasadena Journal
November 9, 2017
When Warren Jeffs was arrested for having sex with young girls, he was given due process, BEFORE a trial, and prosecuted and convicted as a ...
fox13now.com
November 9, 2017
A number of people have been ousted by polygamist leader Warren Jeffs, who is currently in prison for life following his conviction on child sex ...
NBCNews.com
November 9, 2017
Rachel Jeffs sits down with Megyn Kelly to talk about what it was like growing up as the daughter of Warren Jeffs, the self-proclaimed prophet of ...
The Guardian
November 8, 2017
After 10 years of campaigning, Wall recently won two lawsuits, against the FLDS, Warren Jeffs and a trust that controls church land, and moved back to Hildale, taking her two children and her e-commerce clothing business with her. She helped start a grassroots movement to register new, non-FLDS voters ...
Oxygen (blog)
November 8, 2017
Black's cult is known as “La Comuna,” and may be an offshoot of Warren Jeffs' polygamist Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day ...
The Guardian
November 8, 2017
Warren Jeffs had dozens of wives, and decreed child marriage acceptable within the FLDS. He has been serving a life sentence since 2011 on ...
KUTV 2News
November 7, 2017
... sect members hail the changes as long-overdue progress that will help the community break free from the reign of sect leader Warren Jeffs, ...
Newser
November 6, 2017
... the changes as long-overdue progress that will help the community break free from the reign of sect leader Warren Jeffs, serving life in prison ...
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