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Warren Jeffs follower gets 10 years in prison for bigamy

Last updated Friday, March 30, 2012 - 4:29pm

A West Texas polygamist who authorities said had multiple "celestial marriages" was sentenced Friday to 10 years in prison.

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Polygamist sect member details 'celestial marriages'

Matthew Waller Standard Times

Last updated Tuesday, March 27, 2012 - 1:49pm

MIDLAND, Texas -- Former polygamist sect member Rebecca Musser said she was the 19th wife of the "prophet" Rulon Jeffs in 1995. That prophet would eventually have 65 wives, she said.

Musser, once a member of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, saw her own records of that marriage during the bigamy trial of former FLDS President Wendell Loy Nielsen this week.

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Former FLDS leader's trial starts in West Texas

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, March 22, 2012 - 4:46pm

MIDLAND, Texas -- A former lieutenant to polygamist sect prophet Warren Jeffs illegally took multiple wives on a remote West Texas compound that was raided by authorities, prosecutors alleged Thursday.

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Jailed Warren Jeffs sends God's 'revelations' to newspapers

Matthew Waller Standard Times

Last updated Friday, January 27, 2012 - 2:38pm

A polygamist sect has launched an international media blitz, with ads claiming to be God's revelations running in papers across the United States and Canada.

The ads purport to be revelations from God through Warren Jeffs, the imprisoned leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Having been convicted of the sexual assault of a 12-year-old girl and a 15-year-old girl, Jeffs is serving a sentence of life plus 20 years in a prison in Palestine, Texas. The alleged revelations were written from Palestine, according to the ads.

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