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Quote:SAN ANGELO, Texas – Polygamist leader Warren Jeffs was sentenced to life in prison on Tuesday for sexually assaulting two underage followers he took as brides in what his church deemed "spiritual marriages."
The head of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints stood quietly as the decision of the Texas jury was read. He received the maximum sentence on both counts.
Prosecutors had asked the jury for the life sentence after presenting their painstaking and sometimes graphic case, and rejected Jeffs' contention that he was being persecuted for his religious beliefs.
"The evidence in this case shows that this isn't a prosecution of a people," Prosecutor Eric Nichols said in his closing argument. "This is a prosecution to protect people."
During the trial, prosecutors used DNA evidence to show Jeffs fathered a child with a 15-year-old and played an audio recording of what they said was him sexually assaulting a 12-year-old.
The 55-year-old Jeffs, who had insisted on acting as his own attorney during the earlier part of the trial, was convicted Thursday.
He asked to be excused under protest during the sentencing phase, which ended Tuesday with him refusing to answer when the judge asked if he wanted to make a closing statement. A defense attorney told the judge Jeffs had instructed his attorneys not to speak for him.
Jurors deliberated less than half an hour.
During the trial, prosecutors played other tapes in which Jeffs was heard instructing as many as a dozen of his young wives on how to please him sexually -- and thus, he told them, please God.
"If the world knew what I was doing, they would hang me from the highest tree," Jeffs wrote in 2005, according to one of thousands of pages of notes seized along with the audio recordings from his Texas ranch.
Nichols referred to that in his closing.
"No, Mr. Jeffs, unlike what you wrote in your priesthood records ... we don't hang convicts anymore from the highest tree. Not even child molesters," Nichols said.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/08/09/pol...z1UYhjRAv1
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Like! I hate pedophiles who drape themselves in religious garb
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(08-09-2011, 11:47 AM)Crone Wrote: Quote:
"No, Mr. Jeffs, unlike what you wrote in your priesthood records ... we don't hang convicts anymore from the highest tree. Not even child molesters," Nichols said.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/08/09/pol...z1UYhjRAv1
Can we make him a prophet by helping him achieve that vision?
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(08-09-2011, 01:05 PM)BeerMe Wrote: (08-09-2011, 11:47 AM)Crone Wrote: Quote:
"No, Mr. Jeffs, unlike what you wrote in your priesthood records ... we don't hang convicts anymore from the highest tree. Not even child molesters," Nichols said.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/08/09/pol...z1UYhjRAv1
Can we make him a prophet by helping him achieve that vision?
Well he will be in a Texas prison....
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(08-09-2011, 12:50 PM)reelo Wrote: Like! I hate pedophiles who drape themselves in religious garb
I hope he is traded among the various ethnic groups and guards as their bitch and toilet cleaner for the next 30 or so years.......................Or I wouldn't mind reading his obituary.
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I'm glad to see him taking an enforced time out. The length seems a little excessive, but he begged to be a poster child.
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Maybe he will become an organ donor while in prison.
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I hope this doesn't impact this new religion I'm starting.
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What'd be cool, would be "Cage Marriages" at the armory in Merlin.
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Kink and brutal both. I think it would work in Merlin.
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(08-09-2011, 02:25 PM)Leonard Wrote: (08-09-2011, 12:50 PM)reelo Wrote: Like! I hate pedophiles who drape themselves in religious garb
I hope he is traded among the various ethnic groups and guards as their bitch and toilet cleaner for the next 30 or so years.......................Or I wouldn't mind reading his obituary.
Wouldn't that leave his two brides as widows?
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Two? He had a lot more than two.
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I'm surprised the Tea Party hasn't named him as a presidential candidate.
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(08-10-2011, 08:43 AM)TennisMom Wrote: I'm surprised the Tea Party hasn't named him as a presidential candidate.
Give it a rest please. This thread isn't political. It is about a disgusting pervert who got, and will get more of, the justice he has coming to him.
And our pleasure in that justice 
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