Warren Jeffs taken to a Las Vegas Hospital

[davidpdx]

Polygamist Warren Jeffs taken to Vegas hospital

(CNN) -- Jailed polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs was taken to a hospital in Las Vegas on Tuesday, but police would not say why.


Jailed polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs was taken to a hospital in Las Vegas on Tuesday.

Las Vegas police Officer Jose Montoya said Jeffs was taken from an Arizona jail to the Sunrise Hospital and Medical Center in Las Vegas on Tuesday.

"I can't tell you why he was brought here or what his condition is," he said.

He referred questions to the Mohave County Sheriff's Office in Arizona. A call to the sheriff's spokeswoman was not immediately returned.

The jail, in Kingman, Arizona, is about 100 miles from the medical center.

Jeffs, 52, is the leader of the estimated 10,000-member Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

He is awaiting trial on 10 felony charges -- five counts of sexual conduct with a minor, four counts of incest and one count of conspiracy to commit sexual conduct with a minor.

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In November, he was sentenced to two consecutive terms of five years to life in Utah after being convicted on two charges of being an accomplice to rape in connection with a marriage he performed in 2001.

While awaiting sentencing on the rape-accomplice conviction, Jeffs tried to hang himself, court records show.

According to unsealed court documents, Jeffs refused food and drink for a month and developed ulcers on his knees from kneeling in prayer for hours.

Then, on January 28, 2007, he attempted to hang himself in his cell, the documents said. In the days after the suicide attempt, while he was on suicide watch, Jeffs on separate occasions banged his head and threw himself against a wall.

The FLDS, a Mormon offshoot, practices polygamy. Besides being present at the Texas ranch, members are prevalent in two towns straddling the Utah-Arizona state line -- Hildale, Utah, and Colorado City, Arizona.

In April, authorities removed more than 400 children from the FLDS' Yearning for Zion Ranch near Eldorado, Texas. Child protection officials said they found a "pervasive pattern" of sexual abuse on the ranch through forced marriages between underage girls and older men.

However, the Texas Supreme Court ruled in June that the state had no right to remove the children. The court also said the state lacked evidence to show that the children faced imminent danger of abuse. The children were ordered returned to their families.

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I'd bet you anything it was another suicide attempt.

[Frank Cannon]

1. A life-threatening case of blue balls

No little kids around to rape.

[cliffordu]

7. Dammit....Beat me to it......

:rofl:

[SoCalDem]

2. Gee.. that "4 hour warning" stuff is real, eh? whodathunkit

:)

[LostinVA]

3. The world will be a better place without him

I hope he's in the hospital for something serious.

[malaise]

4. Probably a good whipping from fellow prisoners

They are never kind to child rapists.

[Horse with no Name]

5. Me too LIV...me too.

I just expended my one allowed dose of bad karma this week.

[uppityperson]

6. Update: Polygamist leader Jeffs "doing just fine"

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jDCqCmFPcSUkTXxaPC6InKcvgYBwD91QQR4G0

Police: Warren Jeffs released from Vegas hospital

By KEN RITTER – 1 day ago

LAS VEGAS (AP) — Polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs was released from a Nevada hospital Wednesday, a day after he was found "convulsive," weak and feverish in an Arizona jail cell, a sheriff's spokeswoman said. The 52-year-old leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints was released around 5 p.m., police Officer Jose Montoya said. He said he did not know where Jeffs was transported to.

Calls to the Mohave County Sheriff's Department, which had custody of Jeffs, were not immediately returned. Earlier Wednesday, a sheriff's spokeswoman said Jeffs was conscious but in a "weakened state of health, acting in a convulsive manner, shaking, and running a fever" when he was found Tuesday his solo jail cell in Kingman, Ariz.

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Jeffs is charged in Arizona as an accomplice with four counts of sexual conduct with a minor stemming from the marriages he allegedly arranged between underage girls and older men. He also had been charged with four counts of incest as an accomplice, but those charges were dropped last month after Mohave County Superior Court Judge Steven Conn found Arizona's incest law does not apply to the arranged marriages of teenage girls and their older male relatives.

Carter said Jeffs has been jailed in protective custody — alone in his cell 23 hours a day, and allowed one hour of recreation segregated from other inmates....(more)

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/tx/5883909.html

A sheriff's spokeswoman in Arizona says polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs is doing well just days after he was rushed to a Las Vegas hospital for an undisclosed medical problem.

The 52-year-old prophet of a breakaway Mormon sect was flown to Las Vegas Tuesday after being found weak and convulsive in his cell. He was returned to the Mohave County jail in Kingman late Wednesday.

Spokeswoman Trish Carter says Jeffs spent part of Friday walking around the jail exercise yard and was drinking plenty of fluids and eating. She says he "appears to be doing just fine."

Jeffs is awaiting trial in Arizona on charges of being an accomplice to sexual conduct with a minor stemming from marriages he allegedly arranged between underage girls and older men. He's already been convicted of two counts of felony rape as an accomplice in Utah.

[JeffR]

8. Muy conveniente.

By this time next year, he'll be hanging out with Osama and Ken Lay at the Boooosh hacienda.