Polygamist charged in sex case

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Polygamist charged in sex case
Jeffs leads sect that is putting together Colorado compound

By Gwen Florio, Rocky Mountain News
June 14, 2005

COLORADO CITY, Ariz. - The reclusive leader of a breakaway polygamist branch of Mormonism - whose members are building a compound in southwestern Colorado - has been charged with felony child sex abuse.

Authorities in Arizona last week indicted Warren Jeffs, 49, for allegedly arranging the "celestial" marriage in 2002 of a 16-year-old girl to a married man at least 10 years older.


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The charges are the first criminal complaints against Jeffs, who has not been seen since January, according to Andrea Esquer of the Arizona Attorney General's Office.

Jeffs is the leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, whose members are believed to make up the largest polygamist community in the United States.

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