Correction for Nina- I just came across this account in the Dallas News...
Also Thursday, in Kingman, Ariz., police Sgt. Rusty Cooper confirmed that officers there helped Texas authorities serve a search warrant on Mr. Jeffs, who was convicted in Utah for pressing a minor girl into a "spiritual marriage" and is jailed on similar charges in Arizona.
In the warrant, authorities allege the sect's leader, Mr. Jeffs, has sexually assaulted at least one minor girl at the Texas ranch. They say they have the records and photographs to prove Mr. Jeffs married a 14-year-old girl in 2004 and fathered her child the next year.
The DNA samples will help determine "whether Warren Jeffs is the parent of any children born to underage mothers, and thereby establish whether Warren Jeffs sexually assaulted those children by virtue of their age at the time the child was conceived," the warrant states.
The warrant also alleges Mr. Jeffs married a 12-year-old girl at the ranch in 2006, and that photos show them embraced in a kiss. Texas CPS attorneys introduced into evidence those photographs at a sect infant's custody hearing last week.
According to the warrant, other records obtained during Texas' April raid of the compound indicate Mr. Jeffs may have married two others girls at the ranch, both under the age of 15.
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About the Article Above
I was unaware of this allegation about a 14 year old marriage although I believe based on old information known and that she was 16 when she both conceived and gave birth rather than 15 as one might think based on the article.
This info came indirectly through a blogger who knew the young woman's birthdate and did the math.
EDITED after reading warrant/
The 14 year old referred to in the warrant was married in Utah according to their info. I don't know if she was at the ranch or not although the warrant said dates given were based on Bishops records from ranch.
According to FLDS tradition just because one is married, does not mean the marriage is consumated at that time. So all one can know for sure unless the female says different is that sex occurred at conception and not necesarily a day before. The warrant does not say this and suggests otherwise.
Btw- the twelve year old girl listed in the warrant had a medical exam and CPS did not present her as a child who had been molested.
CPS Smoke and Mirrors
CPS has played fast and loose with EVERY allegation made. It is very troubling to me that they used photos in court that they would not say where they came from. (It seems they would have shouted from the hilltops had the pictures been obtained at the ranch).
They also speak of photos in the warrant but once again do not specifically identify where they came from although the Bishops records with dates are specifically said to have been at ranch.
Inflamatory and prejudicial pictures were used in court alledgedly to get reaction from mother who wanted her children back...not for the truth of what they asserted and therefore were not authenticated (based on what I have been able to piece together).
One of the concerns is that the pictures could have been altered and arguably another hoax that the "gullible" CPS will later claim they did not realize when they acted upon them. We have heard that song and dance before...
Hybrid Mode
