His wife and brother were questioned and released. In a Nevada court hearing on August 31, , Jeffs waived extradition and agreed to return to Utah [44] to face two first-degree felony charges of accomplice rape. Arizona prosecutors were next in line to try Jeffs.
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He was held in the Washington County, Utah , jail pending an April 23, , trial on two counts of rape as an accomplice for his role in arranging a marriage between a year-old girl and her year-old first cousin. Jeffs was believed to be leading his group from jail, and a Utah state board expressed dissatisfaction in dealing with Hildale police, believing that many members of the force had ties to Jeffs, and as such, did not cooperate. Jeffs' trial ran from September 11 to 25, The trial was held in St. George, Utah , with Judge James L.
Jeffs was housed in Utah's Purgatory Correctional Facility in solitary confinement for the duration. At the culmination of the trial, on September 25, , Jeffs was found guilty of two counts of being an accomplice to rape. The court found that the trial judge should have told the jury that Jeffs could not be convicted unless he intended for Elissa's husband to engage in nonconsensual sex with her.
Jeffs was also scheduled to be tried in Arizona. On June 9, , a state judge, at the request of Mohave County prosecutor Matt Smith, dismissed all charges with prejudice. Smith said that the Arizona victims no longer wanted to testify, and that Jeffs had spent almost two years in jail awaiting trial — more than he would have received had he been convicted. Combined with the pending charges against Jeffs in Texas, Smith concluded that "it would be impractical and unnecessary" to try Jeffs in Arizona.
Jeffs was then returned to Utah; at the time, his appeal of the conviction was still pending.
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On August 9, , Jeffs was convicted on two counts of sexual assault of a child [54] and sentenced to life in prison. On July 9, , Jeffs was taken from jail in Arizona to a Nevada hospital for what the sheriff described as a serious medical problem. Mohave County Sheriff Tom Sheahan did not specify Jeffs' medical problem, but said it was serious enough to move him about miles from Kingman Regional Medical Center to the Nevada hospital. Jeffs has engaged in lengthy hunger strikes , which his doctors and attorneys have claimed were for spiritual reasons.
On August 29, , Jeffs was taken to East Texas Medical Center, Tyler, Texas , and hospitalized in critical condition under a medically induced coma after excessive fasting. Officials were not sure how long he would remain hospitalized, but expected Jeffs to live. Jeffs is incarcerated at the Louis C. In December , Jeffs predicted that the world would end before and called for his followers to prepare for the end.
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Retrieved on December 28, Jesus Christ Message to All Nations. Archived from the original Flash on October 21, National Geographic Channel TVblogs. Warren Jeffs" on Lifetime in June". All contact with her children was forbidden. Slowly, she started integrating into society, getting a job as a hotel maid. He told her that her son had fallen and broken his arm, but that he was fine. When she called the number again, it had been disconnected.
There comes a point, Beth tells me, when the pain becomes greater than the fear. But she just turned around and ran back in the house with them. Later that day, her attorney filed kidnapping charges, and police were sent to retrieve the children. Beth says they had to carry seven of them — one girl and six boys, the only ones under 18 — kicking and screaming to her.
My daughter treated me like dirt. She was the eldest of the children who came home and almost a year to the day, just after she turned 18, I came back from work and she was gone — back to the church. July this year marked six years since Beth was forced out.
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But those who still live with her have begun to adapt to life on the outside. They are all in school. A year ago, she moved her family to Short Creek to take advantage of the houses available for rent under the new trust plan. She relies on food stamps and dinners at the refuge. I ask if she thinks the FLDS is breaking apart. They show me around the 29, sq ft brick building. The bedrooms are modest; in some, the carpet creeps a few feet up the walls — apparently designed to deaden any noise.
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Downstairs, at the front of the house, is an empty office. It used to have a pull-down single bed, but it was ripped out a year ago when former FLDS members told the Joneses that Jeffs used to abuse them there. Next door is what looks like a storage closet, though a latch under a shelf at the back reveals a hidden room. We give them three meals a day, free accommodation and counselling. As a Christian organisation, they also have weekly chapel services, but Glyn says they try to broaden their reach so that everyone can relate.
Jena offers to give me a tour of Short Creek. There is a peculiar mix of houses — some large and well looked after, others dilapidated. Jena takes a dirt track up the mountain and on to a ridge overlooking the town. We pull up next to a tall, circular grain store and she points towards the cliffs.
There used to be a lock on the door, but not today. Using the lights on our mobile phones, Jena leads me down a dark passageway. At the end is a heavy, steel door with a bank-vault-style lock. The cave is lined with shelves still full of food: Today, most are gone, dispersed across the US after being evicted from their homes or leaving a community they no longer recognise. She misses the community as it was. Perhaps the most prominent face of change in Short Creek is the new mayor, Donia Jessop.
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Born into the church in , she wants to see the town return to the peaceful, friendly place she says it once was. When Warren came into rule, it was complete anarchy. Jessop and her husband were excommunicated by Jeffs in ; he ordered their young daughter to stay, but knowing they would never see her again, they took her with them to a different city in Utah. Passionate about rebuilding Short Creek, Jessop is a warm, friendly woman.
She returned to Hildale in , intent on making a home there with her family and reconnecting with the place she once loved. But she was spat at by members, and had things thrown at her in the street. But I refused to be intimidated. In , she began to build a grassroots coalition to challenge FLDS members on the town council in the elections. When Jessop was elected mayor, 10 male members of the town council resigned in protest at a female leader. Briell Decker believes Short Creek can become a place of healing; that, just as she did, the town can start again. You take your experiences and do the best you can with them.
Last summer she married her boyfriend, Stevan, who was never a member of the FLDS church, and the couple have moved away.