The Wives of Warren

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She eventually left Allen and the community. Jeffs faced the above charges in Mohave County, Arizona. Around this time, Jeffs' brother, Seth , was arrested under suspicion of harboring a fugitive. During Seth Jeffs' court case, FBI agent Andrew Stearns testified that Seth had told him that he did not know where his older brother was and that he would not reveal his whereabouts if he did.

He was convicted of harboring a fugitive on May 1, On April 5, , Utah issued an arrest warrant for Jeffs on felony charges of accomplice rape of a teenage girl between 14 and 18 years old. Wisan claimed that Jeffs is responsible for "fleecing trust assets". On June 8, , Jeffs returned to Colorado City to perform more "child bride" marriages.

On May 27, , the Smoking Gun website released images of Jeffs with two underage wives, one of whom was 12 years old, celebrating one-year anniversaries in and His wife and brother were questioned and released. In a Nevada court hearing on August 31, , Jeffs waived extradition and agreed to return to Utah [44] to face two first-degree felony charges of accomplice rape. Arizona prosecutors were next in line to try Jeffs. He was held in the Washington County, Utah , jail pending an April 23, , trial on two counts of rape as an accomplice for his role in arranging a marriage between a year-old girl and her year-old first cousin.

Jeffs was believed to be leading his group from jail, and a Utah state board expressed dissatisfaction in dealing with Hildale police, believing that many members of the force had ties to Jeffs, and as such, did not cooperate. Jeffs' trial ran from September 11 to 25, The trial was held in St. George, Utah , with Judge James L.

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Jeffs was housed in Utah's Purgatory Correctional Facility in solitary confinement for the duration. At the culmination of the trial, on September 25, , Jeffs was found guilty of two counts of being an accomplice to rape. The court found that the trial judge should have told the jury that Jeffs could not be convicted unless he intended for Elissa's husband to engage in nonconsensual sex with her. Jeffs was also scheduled to be tried in Arizona. On June 9, , a state judge, at the request of Mohave County prosecutor Matt Smith, dismissed all charges with prejudice.

Smith said that the Arizona victims no longer wanted to testify, and that Jeffs had spent almost two years in jail awaiting trial — more than he would have received had he been convicted. Combined with the pending charges against Jeffs in Texas, Smith concluded that "it would be impractical and unnecessary" to try Jeffs in Arizona. Jeffs was then returned to Utah; at the time, his appeal of the conviction was still pending. On August 9, , Jeffs was convicted on two counts of sexual assault of a child [54] and sentenced to life in prison.

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On July 9, , Jeffs was taken from jail in Arizona to a Nevada hospital for what the sheriff described as a serious medical problem. Mohave County Sheriff Tom Sheahan did not specify Jeffs' medical problem, but said it was serious enough to move him about miles from Kingman Regional Medical Center to the Nevada hospital. Jeffs has engaged in lengthy hunger strikes , which his doctors and attorneys have claimed were for spiritual reasons. On August 29, , Jeffs was taken to East Texas Medical Center, Tyler, Texas , and hospitalized in critical condition under a medically induced coma after excessive fasting.

Officials were not sure how long he would remain hospitalized, but expected Jeffs to live. Jeffs is incarcerated at the Louis C.

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Jeffs went on the run in after being indicted by an Arizona jury — initially, for forcing a year-old girl to marry a year-old man who was already married. The FBI charged him with unlawful flight and added him to their most-wanted list. After a raid on one of his compounds, they discovered he had also taken child brides.

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After a lengthy legal process, he was sentenced to life plus 20 years, but continued to dictate family separations and church excommunications from prison — among other things, forcing Decker to live with her brother. Enter The Dream Center , a faith-based charity in Los Angeles, which helps the homeless, at-risk young people, addicts and struggling families, who agreed to manage the mansion as a refuge. Since it opened a year ago, the refuge has provided meals and safety for women escaping the FLDS with their children, as well as people from nearby towns struggling with addiction or mental health issues.

She is in her late 40s and still wears her hair in the traditional FLDS bun. As we talk about her life in the church, she alternates between laughter and tears. She entered into a plural marriage when she was 20, she says, the second of four wives. Her eldest child is now in her late 20s; her youngest is seven. They were members of the Latter-day Saints church, originally.

But when it chose to outlaw polygamy, my grandparents refused to give up their plural families. The church excommunicated them and that was the beginning of the FLDS. She would have to leave her children behind, to be cared for by other church members. Everybody was weeping like there had been a death.

Her children helped pack her bags. All my big girls sat on the porch weeping their eyes out.

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Her father had been ousted from the church 15 years before; her brother more recently. Together they found her an apartment nearby, but for the first month Beth hardly left her bedroom.

All contact with her children was forbidden. Slowly, she started integrating into society, getting a job as a hotel maid. He told her that her son had fallen and broken his arm, but that he was fine. When she called the number again, it had been disconnected. There comes a point, Beth tells me, when the pain becomes greater than the fear. But she just turned around and ran back in the house with them. Later that day, her attorney filed kidnapping charges, and police were sent to retrieve the children. Beth says they had to carry seven of them — one girl and six boys, the only ones under 18 — kicking and screaming to her.

My daughter treated me like dirt. She was the eldest of the children who came home and almost a year to the day, just after she turned 18, I came back from work and she was gone — back to the church. July this year marked six years since Beth was forced out. But those who still live with her have begun to adapt to life on the outside. They are all in school. A year ago, she moved her family to Short Creek to take advantage of the houses available for rent under the new trust plan. She relies on food stamps and dinners at the refuge. I ask if she thinks the FLDS is breaking apart.

They show me around the 29, sq ft brick building. The bedrooms are modest; in some, the carpet creeps a few feet up the walls — apparently designed to deaden any noise. Downstairs, at the front of the house, is an empty office. It used to have a pull-down single bed, but it was ripped out a year ago when former FLDS members told the Joneses that Jeffs used to abuse them there. Next door is what looks like a storage closet, though a latch under a shelf at the back reveals a hidden room.

We give them three meals a day, free accommodation and counselling. As a Christian organisation, they also have weekly chapel services, but Glyn says they try to broaden their reach so that everyone can relate.

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