Eldorado, Texas » A Schleicher County jury deliberated for six hours Tuesday before sentencing FLDS member Raymond Merril Jessop to 10 years in prison, without parole, for sexually assaulting a 16-year-old girl five years ago.
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ELDORADO, Texas » A Schleicher County jury is expected to decide on a punishment for polygamous sect member Raymond Merril Jessop today after hearing closing arguments from attorneys.
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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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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.