1st FLDS case may pave way for rest

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http://www.sltrib.com/ci_4029966

1st FLDS case may pave way for rest
By Brooke Adams
The Salt Lake Tribune
Salt Lake Tribune
More than three years ago, Arizona authorities had a pile of birth certificates that showed underage girls from a polygamous sect were giving birth to children fathered by older men - but nothing else that might help them prosecute the cases.
And then, Warren S. Jeffs inadvertently helped them out.
Jeffs, leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, began a massive purging of men he considered unworthy of belonging to the polygamous sect that straddles the Utah/Arizona state line.
Some say more than 200 men have been exiled. Of those, only a handful have spoken out about the restrictive authority Jeffs wields over his followers.
Among them: Richard Holm and Isaac Wyler, whose testimony proved key last week in winning a conviction against Kelly Fischer on two sex-crimes charges related to his "spiritual" polygamous marriage to a 16-year-old girl.

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[Warpy]

1. Jeffs is a bad guy.

and I hope they put his ass in prison. He's got his gaggle of pedophiles and slave women convinced he's the Second Coming and some of the rhetoric is right out of Jonestown.... and Waco.

He seems to have jumped the shark by ousting men who weren't buying into his metamorphosis into a god.

He's got "congregations" all over the southwest except in New Mexico. That's why he's been difficult to capture.