A Texas jury has sentenced a polygamous sect member to 75 years in prison on one count of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old girl whom he spiritually married in 2006 while living at a ranch in Schleicher County.
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San Angelo, Texas » A Tom Green County jury Wednesday found Merril Leroy Jessop, 35, guilty of sexual assault of a child in connection with allegations he illegally married an underage girl.
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San Angelo, Texas » Lawyers are in the final stages of seating a jury for the trial of Merril Leroy Jessop, 35, a member of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints charged with sexual assault of a child.
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CHARTING
POLYGAMY LEADERSHIP
Splinter groups have embraced polygamy and branched out to communities
in Utah, Montana, Arizona, southern Canada and Mexico. (A 2.3 mb PDF
file download)
ORIGINS
OF POLYGAMY
Polygamy's origins in Utah go back to the 1800s.
A look at its origins and continuing practice among fundamentalist
Mormon sects (through 2004).
BY
THE NUMBERS
A side by side statistical comparison of two
modern polygamist communities and the states as a whole.
