Polygamist sect leader indicted....

Polygamist sect leader Jeffs, 5 others indicted

By MICHELLE ROBERTS, Associated Press Writer Tue Jul 22, 7:58 PM ET

ELDORADO, Texas - A grand jury has indicted polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs and five of his followers. Jeffs, who was indicted Tuesday, is accused of sexual assault. The charges and identities of the others were being withheld until authorities can arrest them, said Schleicher County clerk Peggy Williams.

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One indictment is misdemeanor; the others are felonies.

The criminal charges came during the panel's second meeting on the case and followed the ill-fated child custody case in which more than 400 children were placed in foster care. The Texas Supreme Court ruled child welfare authorities had overstepped in taking all the children for their parents even though many were infants and toddlers.

This snippet reads a little clearer:

Polygamist is indicted in assault of a child

The Associated Press; Published: July 23, 2008 - A Texas grand jury handed up an indictment Tuesday against a Mormon polygamist leader who is already serving time in prison, accusing him of sexually assaulting a girl under 17.

The defendant, Warren Jeffs, 52, was convicted last year of two counts of rape as an accomplice and sentenced to 10 years to life in prison in Utah. He is being held in Mohave County, Arizona, awaiting trial on charges of arranging underage marriages. He also faces federal fugitive charges in Utah.

Five other members of Jeffs's church, the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, were also indicted by the grand jury, in Schleicher County. Four were accused of sexually assaulting girls under 17, with one also charged with bigamy. The fifth was charged with failing to report child abuse. The names of those indicted were sealed until arrest warrants could be served.

Conviction of sexual assault of a minor can bring a life sentence.

...and then there's this little tidbit:

LAS VEGAS  —  Polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs was found "convulsive," weak and feverish in an Arizona jail cell before he was hospitalized under tight security in Las Vegas, a sheriff's spokeswoman said Wednesday.

The 52-year-old president of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints was found Tuesday "in a weakened state of health, acting in a convulsive manner, shaking, and running a fever," said Trish Carter, spokeswoman for Mohave County Sheriff Tom Sheahan.

Jeffs was first taken from jail to Kingman Regional Medical Center in Arizona, and then flown by medical helicopter about 100 miles to Las Vegas... Jeffs had "sporadic eating habits" and may have lost weight in the 133 days he was held in the Mohave County jail in Kingman, Carter said. But Carter said she could not say Jeffs had been fasting as he did while jailed in Utah over the past two years.

Carter said Jeffs has been jailed in what she called protective custody for his safety and to prevent escape. He was kept alone in his cell for 23 hours a day, and allowed one hour of recreation while remaining segregated from other inmates.

The sect leader has had several health complications in prison, including a trip to a Utah prison infirmary in February 2007 because of a self-imposed fast. Utah court documents show that Jeffs lost 30 pounds fasting while in jail awaiting trial, and that he was hospitalized for treatment of fasting, dehydration and sleep deprivation.

A clinical social worker who interviewed Jeffs reported that Jeffs attempted to hang himself in January 2007.

 I'm hoping he gets life.

They all should be given the death sentence, especially what they have done to women and children. In this day and age they have treated women and children like dirt under the feet and like sex slaves. That is so cave man like. We have come a long way in this country to abolish that sort of things and then to have someone like that turn the clock back a few centuries is just plain nuts. They have given sects  . I am talking about the men. Then they use the bible to justify that it is ok. That is blasphamy and some of the worst sins God forbids.

The women and children have been  brain washed and that is all it is, a form of brainwashing for thier sexual needs and control of people. I hope they indict that brother of his that took over when that Texas saga was going on a few months ago when they took all the children from that compound with thier mothers.