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Warren Steed Jeffs (born December 3, 1955) is an American cult leader who is serving a life sentence in Texas for child sexual assault following two convictions in 2011. He is the president of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, a polygamous cult based in Arizona. [8]
Jeffs was sentenced to life in prison in 2011. In depositions in other lawsuits, he has consistently refused to answer questions beyond his name , citing his Fifth Amendment rights against self ...
Prisoner of the Prophet is an American documentary miniseries on Discovery+, surrounding the polygamous Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, an offshoot of mainstream Mormonism, and its current leader Warren S. Jeffs. [1] The series was released on January 30, 2023. [2] It is directed by Pat McGee.
For years, authorities had suspected that Warren Jeffs was forcing underage girls to marry much older men—but it wasn’t until a 2008 raid on the Yearning for Zion Ranch near Eldorado, Texas ...
In 2008, federal authorities raided the ranch, where Jeffs — as head and self-proclaimed prophet of the secretive sect of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints ...
On June 22, 2010, Abram Harker Jeffs was found guilty of sexual assault of a child. [56] On August 9, 2011, leader Warren Steed Jeffs was found guilty of one count of aggravated sexual assault of a child and one count of sexual assault of a child and sentenced to life in prison plus 20 years to be served consecutively. [57]
A 40-acre plot of Minnesota forest land connected to a polygamous sect once led by Warren Jeffs is up for sale. News that the property is back on the market, listed for $189,000, relieved ...
In 2011, fundamentalist church leader Warren Jeffs was convicted of sexual assault of a child and sentenced to life in prison after facing several prior criminal cases for similar conduct. A 2017 lawsuit alleged that Jeffs, along with two of his brothers and over 20 other defendants, mostly unnamed, sexually assaulted underage female members of ...