Eldorado, Texas » This time the girl was real.
More than a year ago, a hoax call about a phantom girl led to an investigation at a polygamous sect's Texas ranch.
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Eldorado, Texas » A Schleicher County jury took about two hours to find a polygamous sect member guilty of sexually assaulting a 16-year-old girl in 2004.
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El Dorado, Texas » A state prosecutor told jurors Thursday that the best evidence that Raymond Merril Jessop is guilty of sexual assault is the little girl whose face was projected on a screen as they listened to his closing argument.
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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.