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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]
Any assets Jeffs still may have are likely scattered across the country as still-faithful FLDS members have left Hildale, Utah, and Colorado City, Ariz., under increased scrutiny and pressure.
He’s allegedly still running his cult and acting as a prophet from behind bars, but many of his survivors have left the cult and struggled to adapt to normal life. “This was the story I set ...
Reports linked a group who lay claim to a stretch of public land to the fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and its convicted sex offender leader Warren Jeffs. This was not ...
As Jeffs becomes wanted by law enforcement Naomi's own journals from her work as Warren's personal scribe are used to detail her life both in the community of Short Creek (Hilldale, Utah, and Colorado City, Arizona), as well as her time on the run with Jeffs being placed on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted List.
In July 2010, Warren Jeffs' rape as an accomplice conviction was overturned due to a flaw in jury instructions, and a new trial was ordered. [6] In August 2011, Warren Jeffs was found guilty of another charge: sexual assault of a minor, for raping a 12-year-old and a 15-year-old; for which he was sentenced to life in prison, plus twenty years. [7]
Warren Jeffs is the self-described "prophet" of the FLDS Church, a Mormon fundamentalist cult that has been disavowed by mainstream Mormons. ... Warren Jeffs still runs the church from his prison ...
Naomi Jessop, the ex-wife of convicted polygamist cult leader Warren Jeffs, says in the exclusive first trailer for Peacock’s latest true-crime documentary, Preaching Evil: A Wife on the Run ...