Lawyer: "My client has disappeared from house-arrest? Maybe he was raptured."

[DetlefK]

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/08/lawyer-for-notorious-polygamist-says-escaped-mormon-may-have-experienced-the-miracle-of-rapture/

“As this Court is well aware, Mr. Jeffs is currently not available to inform his counsel whether or not he agrees to the Continuance,” she wrote. “Whether his absence is based on absconding, as oft alleged by the Government in their filings, or whether he was taken and secreted against his will, or whether he experienced the miracle of rapture is unknown to counsel.”

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He escaped his pre-trial home confinement this past June and has not been heard from since.

[Avalux]

1. WTF??

"Has not been heard from?"

Why hasn't that asshole been found and dragged to jail? Never should have been on house arrest in the first place.

If he was 'raptured' it was by human means and not his sick god.

[VMA131Marine]

2. Someone is hiding him

That's how this "church" works.

[Eugene]

3. Raptured all right. Raptured to Mexico or South America.

[muriel_volestrangler]

4. Sounds a bit like contempt of court, to me

If I were the judge, I'd be tearing a strip off that lawyer for taking the piss, in a serious situation where her client has absconded.

[maxsolomon]

5. He went to Mexico.

why the fuck you'd ever let him out on House Arrest is beyond me.