General trial info
http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/52299775-78/jeffs-trial-defense-flds.html.csphttp://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/52310537-78/jeffs-wives-texas-court.html.cspJeffs tells girls to cooperate with sister wives, including in sex, tape reveals
Invoking revelations from God, Warren Jeffs instructed 12 of his plural wives on group sex, becoming comfortable nude and how they should care for their body hair in what he called a "training," according to an audio recording played in court Tuesday.
The wives all undressed and put on white robes as Jeffs began to speak in the December 2004 recording, Texas Ranger Nick Hanna testified. One wife in the group, prosecutors say, was a 14-year-old girl whose parents brought her to be married to Jeffs. The ages of the other wives were not specified.
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"You have to know how to be excited sexually and to be excited to administer that comfort and strength," Jeffs is heard on the recording. "And you have to be able to assist each other. No one sits around, everyone assists each other."...(more)
http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/52302848-78/jeffs-flds-walther-child.html.cspJeffs fathered baby with 15-year-old, DNA allegedly shows
The teenage girl in the photo looks like she might be a big sister holding the tiny baby in her arms.
But prosecutors say she is the infant’s mother — and that Warren Jeffs, the 55-year-old leader of her polygamous sect, is the baby’s father.
A forensic DNA expert testified Monday in Jeffs’ sexual assault trial there is a 99.99996 percent probability that Jeffs fathered the child.
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The teen is one of two girls Jeffs is accused of taking as plural wives. The other girl was 12 when she allegedly became a child bride in 2006.(more)