FLDS News

As detailed in this local report , which is headlined "Testimony in Sentencing for FLDS Member,"the recent conviction in Texas of an FLDS member on sex charges has now led to a fascinatingjury sentencing proceeding: A jury that convicted a member of the Utah-based FLDS Church will begin deliberating his sentence.

ELDORADO a ' The trial for 38 year-old Raymond Jessop continues today as the jury begins the task of deciding his punishment.

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The first polygamist sect member to face criminal trial following the raid at the Yearning For Zion Ranch in West Texas last year was convicted Thursday of sexual assault of a child.

The punishment for 38 year old Raymond Jessop will be decided Monday as he was found guilty tonight of sexual assault of a child.

Texas jury convicts 38-year-old polygamist sect member of sexual assault of a child.

A former member of a polygamist group has taken the stand in the sexual assault trial of the first group member tried since Texas authorities raided the group's ranch last year.

The Utah Supreme Court Tuesday dismissed a petition filed by attorneys and members of the Fundamentalist LDS Church asking for a supplemental briefing and oral argument.

Attorneys for imprisoned polygamous church leader Warren Jeffs on Tuesday will argue an appeal of his 2007 criminal conviction before the Utah Supreme Court.

With testimony resuming today in the child sexual assault trial in Eldorado of an FLDS Polygamist sect man, the jury heard from a forensic expert and others testifying today.

Two fundamentalist Mormon leaders from Bountiful, B.C., are scheduled to appear in court Wednesday on polygamy charges.

Trial opens in ranch sexual assault case Eight men and four women were selected Wednesday for the jury that will decide the first criminal case stemming from the raid of a polygamist group's ranch last year, and Assistant Attorney General Eric Nichols gave his opening statement, telling jurors that witnesses, documents and DNA will show that a ...

Nick Hanna, a sergeant with the Texas Rangers office in San Angelo, walks from the Memorial Building after testifying in the child sexual assault case of Raymond Merrill Jessop on Thursday afternoon in Eldorado.

A forensic analyst said Friday that DNA samples from Raymond Merril Jessop, his alleged victim and her child showed there is a "99.99998 percent" probability he fathered the child.

Even though there is not a single member of the Fundamental sect of the Latter Day Saints church on the jury, defense attorneys for a polygamist husband, accused of raping one of his child brides, think he can get a fair trial in tiny Eldorado, Texas.

The Utah Supreme Court has issued an order outlining courtroom rules and security during an appeal hearing for Warren Jeffs, the polygamist church leader convicted on criminal charges in 2007.

The first criminal trial stemming from the raid of a polygamist sect's Texas ranch came to abrupt halt Thursday after the child of a juror came down with a high fever and flulike symptoms.

Just spitting distance across the Utah border in Arizona, the very rural and remote Colorado City is home to rigid fundamentalists who think the Mormon Church sold out when it abandoned polygamy 119 years ago.

A 38-year-old man from a polygamist sect sexually assaulted a teenager less than half his age at the Yearning For Zion Ranch, a prosecutor charged Wednesday to open the first criminal trial since the ranch was raided.

Eds: APNewsNow. Will be led. AP Photo TXHC102, NY122 By MICHELLE ROBERTS Associated Press Writer ELDORADO, Texas The first of a dozen polygamist sect members charged with abuse of women stands trial Monday, 18 months after agents raided the group's remote ranch and carted off more than 400 children in the largest child-custody case in American ...