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Texas grand jury indicts polygamists
A Texas grand jury indicted polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs and four of his followers on charges of felony sexual assault of a child.
- AP
- Published: 00:03 July 24, 2008
Eldorado, Texas: A Texas grand jury indicted polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs and four of his followers on charges of felony sexual assault of a child.
Another was indicted for failing to report child abuse.
Attorney General Greg Abbott said the five men are charged with one count of sexually assaulting girls under age 17.
One of them, but not the 52-year-old Jeffs, faces an additional charge of bigamy.
Abbott said a sixth member of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is charged with three counts of failure to report child abuse. Jeffs already convicted of being accomplice to rape in Utah and awaiting trial in Arizona on other charges related to underage marriages, is accused of assaulting a girl in Texas in January 2005.
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