Friday, November 30, 2007

Polygamist Warren Steed Jeff


This guy is sick, and it's about time they caught him- Warren Jeff was the leader of an extreme Mormon polygamist sect and has been one of the FBI's most wanted fugitives for "flight to avoid prosecution in Utah and Arizona, sexual conduct with a minor, and conspiracy to commit sexual conduct with a minor and rape as an accomplice." The Mormon Church calls him a religious zealot and dangerous extremist and clais to have no ties with the FLDS- Jeffs was the leader of this extreme sect, the FLDS, for four years; during those four years hundreds of marriages involving girls as young as thirteen were made, young men were sent away to avoid competition for brides, older men were cast out, and wives and children were reassigned by Jeffs to new husbands and fathers- the entire thing is disgusting. All I can think is that the Mormon Church must be mortified by being associated with such a person and sect even though it is not there doing at all; I also do not understand how polygamy is even allowed still- the "marriages" must not be legal ones. This case is very interesting becuase it is so strange... I intend on following it and seeing what his sentence ends up being.

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