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Texas polygamist guilty of sexual assaultLubbockOnline.comProsecutor Eric Nichols said the case was about sexual assault, not validity of search warrants used during a 2008 raid on the Yearning for Zion Ranch. ...and more »
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FLDS: Jurors return guilty verdictSan Angelo Standard TimesThe evidence came from a raid on the FLDS Yearning for Zion Ranch in April 2008, provoked by what is now known to be a hoax phone call from a woman who ...Texas polygamist member guilty of sex assaultHouston Chronicleall 37 news articles »
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Polygamist member on trial in San AngeloHouston ChronicleThe state on Monday offered items taken from the Yearning For Zion Ranch during a 2008 raid. John Sampson, who teaches at the University of Texas School of ...and more »
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State continues building case against accused FLDS manSan Angelo Standard TimesHer testimony was meant to authenticate records taken during a raid on the FLDS-owned Yearning for Zion Ranch in Schleicher County, a raid that resulted ...
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State presents evidence in trial of FLDS memberSan Angelo Standard TimesThe evidence came from a raid on the Yearning for Zion Ranch in 2008 when authorities acted on what was later determined to be a hoax call of a woman ...
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...said the plot draws inspiration from media reports of a 1953 raid at Short Creek, Ariz., and a 2008 raid at the Yearning For Zion Ranch in Eldorado, Texas, plus stories of the 80-plus wives of Brigham Young and Joseph Smith.Muhly's "Two Boys," a fictionalized...
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MiamiHerald.comNico Muhly writing opera on woman's attempt to split from a Mormon churchThe Canadian PressThe creative team said the plot draws inspiration from media reports of a 1953 raid at Short Creek, Ariz., and a 2008 raid at the Yearning For Zion Ranch in ...Photo Flash: New American Opera DARK SISTERS Hosts Reception, 10/28Broadway Worldall 41 news articles »
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Witnesses: Evidence in Dutson trial carefully cared forSan Angelo Standard TimesBrad Oliver, a Texas Ranger, linked Dutson to the Yearning for Zion Ranch in Schleicher County, where the April 2008 state raid occurred. ...
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Speech & Debate Playwright Stephen Karam Pens Opera Libretto for Dark SistersPlaybill.com... AZ and the 2008 raid at the Yearning For Zion Ranch in Eldorado, TX) as well as the stories of the over 80 wives of Joseph Smith and Brigham Young. ...and more »
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Jury seated in FLDS member's trialSan Angelo Standard Times... took a digital picture tour of the Yearning for Zion Ranch that belongs to members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. ...and more »
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Warren Jeffs fighting extradition to TexasABC 4Jeffs faces bigamy and sexual assault charges in Texas, stemming from a raid on the FLDS Yearning For Zion Ranch near El Dorado in 2007. ...Polygamist leader's attorneys fight extraditionHouston ChronicleDefense asks court to delay Utah polygamist's extradition to TexasCNN (blog)all 35 news articles »
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Examiner.comFLDS polygamists from Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott raid plead to sex chargesExaminer.com... and fathering a child with a 15-year old girl while living at the Yearning for Zion Ranch in Schleider County,Texas near San Angelo, Texas in 2006. ...and more »
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New Film Exposes Sex Offenses in Polygamy CultHuffington Post (blog)Then the State of Texas whose platform is strongly against sex offenders and pro child safety raided the Yearning for Zion ranch and 12 more men were ...
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Polygamist sect members plead no contest to bigamyTriValley CentralTexas officials have been careful to say that the sect's Yearning For Zion Ranch in Eldorado was raided in April 2008 because of alleged underage marriages, ...and more »
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FLDS man pleads no contest, gets eight years in prisonSalt Lake Tribune... was already married when he entered a "spiritual" marriage with a 16-year-old girl in October 2005 at the Yearning For Zion Ranch in Eldorado, Texas. ...Two more FLDS members sentencedReporterNews.comPolygamist sect members plead no contest to bigamyThe Associated Pressall 253 news articles »
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Warren Jeffs still in jail awaiting trial as turmoil continuesAZ Central.comUnder siege in both states, Jeffs had concluded that Judgment Day was imminent, and the FLDS sect moved to a new base at Yearning for Zion Ranch in ...and more »
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VIEWPOINTS: FLDS has legal right to its beliefs, practicesSan Angelo Standard-TimesFourth-grade girls of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints talk in their classroom on the Yearning for Zion Ranch near Eldorado. ...
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MyFox PhoenixSearches target FLDS communities in Utah, ArizonaSan Angelo Standard Times... the Arizona-Utah border communities that are home to the polygamous church sect that also owns and occupies the Yearning for Zion Ranch near Eldorado. ...Utah, Arizona law officers raid polygamous communitySalt Lake Tribuneall 294 news articles »
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FLDS rips trust managementSan Angelo Standard TimesSAN ANGELO, Texas — The effects of the historic raid on the Yearning for Zion Ranch near Eldorado that began April 3, 2008, still echo on ...and more »
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Two Years After Raid, Polygamist Sect Leaders Are 'Nervous'ABC NewsThe group burst into the national spotlight after the April 3, 2008 raid of the Yearning for Zion Ranch in Eldorado, Texas. People were stunned not only by ...and more »
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Standard-Times wins 11 awards in state contestSan Angelo Standard-Times... for a picture package marking life at the FLDS compound a year after state authorities raided the Yearning for Zion Ranch. n Scott Beckett, ...and more »
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Two Texas Rangers testified this morning to their part in the raid of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints Yearning For Zion Ranch outside of Eldorado.
Merril Leroy Jessop, 35, a member of the polygamous
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...of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints to go on trial since authorities raided the sect's Yearning For Zion Ranch in April 2008. The girl in the assault case, now 21, was previously in a spiritual marriage with Jessop's brother before...
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www.foxnews.com Raymond Jessop, 38, was convicted late Thursday for having sex with the teen with whom he had a so-called spiritual marriage. He faces up to 20 years in prison when the jury reconvenes Monday to begin deciding his sentence. Early on, the weeklong raid of the Yearning For Zion Ranch was hounded by missteps. After scouring the ranch for days in April 2008 in search of a caller who claimed to be an abused girl, law enforcement acknowledged "Sarah Barlow" didn't exist. Several weeks after Texas child welfare officials put all 439 sect children in foster care in one of the largest child custody cases in US history, an appellate court ruled that Texas authorities had overstepped, and the children went back to their parents. But authorities still seized documents from homes and concrete vaults in the towering limestone temple and annex building at the ranch — documents that would help convict Jessop and indict 11 other members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Jurors deliberated for little more than two hours before convicting Jessop, who did not visibly react as the verdict was read. Free on bond during trial, he was immediately handcuffed and led to jail. Lawyers in the case declined to comment on the verdict Thursday. Jessop allegedly has nine wives. He also faces a bigamy charge, but that case is to be tried later. The girl in the assault case, now 21, was previously in a spiritual marriage with Jessop's brother before being ...
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. (Nov. 5)
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...of more than 60 witnesses the state may call, spent two hours describing his participation in the investigation at the Yearning for Zion Ranch and identifying photos of buildings on the property. Hanna said he was at the ranch from April 3-9, as law officers...
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...of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints to face trial since authorities raided the Yearning For Zion Ranch last April. Besides the assault charge, he faces a bigamy charge, but that case is to be tried later. Screen names can only...
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...second day of jury selection of his trial in Eldorado, Texas on Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2009. Jessop is the first man from the Yearning For Zion Ranch to go on trial since authorities raided the compound in April 2008. He could be sentenced to up to 20 years in...
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...is being selected today in sleepy Eldorado for the opening trial of a dozen an alleged polygamists from Yearning For Zion Ranch. Lawyers are winnowing a jury pool in the first jury trial in a decade in Eldorado, Texas, that follows an April 2008 raid that...
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...2009, in Eldorado, Texas. It the site for the trial of 38-year-old Raymond Jessop. He is the first man from the Yearning For Zion Ranch to go on trial in the community. Jessop faces up to 20 years if convicted of sexual assault of a child. On Monday the largest...
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Today is Monday, July 27th, 2009 Recorded: Friday, July 24th, 2009 This is a chat about the FLDS Yearning for Zion Ranch in Arizona The "prophet" that runs the place is Willie Jessop This is meant to be a discussion about work versus play. This topic was prompted by an Oprah Winfrey show that I happened to catch last week. I am leaning more towards the topic of living in a society where you are taught to only participate in activities which are productive in nature, and which better yourself and/or your community. Your thoughts please?
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...court documents that Texas Rangers used fake calls to a domestic violence hot line as an excuse to rummage through the Yearning For Zion Ranch in April 2008. The men claim it was an unreasonable search and seizure. The men, who belong to the Fundamentalist...
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...argument in Schleicher County court on Monday. They ask that documents from the April 2008 raid of the Yearning For Zion Ranch be barred from the men's criminal trials. The first trial could start this fall. The lawyers argue that Texas law enforcement used...
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...practices of the Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints, who were uncomfortably brought into the public eye by a raid on the Yearning for Zion Ranch. The group, which numbers well into the thousands and lives in isolated communities throughout the southwest, believes...
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Tom C. Rawlings, Director of the Office of the Child Advocate discusses the proper balance between aggressive action to protect children from abuse and neglect and undesirable over-reaction resulting in the erosion of civil liberties? What about the state imposition of psychological harm on children and their families? What is the law? Mr. Rawlings discusses these issues in the context of the recent case involving the removal of 460 children from the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of ...
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...of Latter Day Saints, on charges related to underage marriages. Texas authorities descended on the sect's Yearning For Zion Ranch on April 3, 2008, after a crisis hot line received calls from someone who claimed to be "Sarah Jessop Barlow," a 16-year-old,...
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Dallas family lawyers Aubrey Connatser and Ramsey Patton participate in the first anniversary commemoration of the raid on the Yearning For Zion Ranch in Eldorado, Texas. ... "Aubrey Connatser" "Ramsey Patton" Koons Fuller "Vanden Eykel & Robertson" "family law" "pro bono" "polygamist ranch" FLDS attorneys Eldorado "San Angelo" Texas "YFZ Ranch"
Quizno's homoerotic ad for the Toasty Torpedo is just one of the things Conor Knighton talks about in his weekly roundup of the crazy world of 24-hour media madness. This week he also looks at DL Hughley going bye-bye, TV Land's 'High School Reunion' going trashy, the Rock going all Miley Cyrus on the Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards, Oprah going to the Yearning for Zion ranch, the Shamwow guy going nuts, and a girl on the local news going down. ... Quizno's homoerotic Toasty Torpedo Sarah ...
Quizno's homoerotic ad for the Toasty Torpedo is just one of the things Conor Knighton talks about in his weekly roundup of the crazy world of 24-hour media madness. This week he also looks at DL Hughley going bye-bye, TV Land's 'High School Reunion' going trashy, the Rock going all Miley Cyrus on the Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards, Oprah going to the Yearning for Zion ranch, the Shamwow guy going nuts, and a girl on the local news going down.
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...one inch — "no more, no less" — off the floor. In just five years, a new community arose on what was now known as the Yearning for Zion Ranch — an oasis with a gleaming white temple, a place where folks kept to themselves. Jeffs, the 53-year-old son of the...
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www.watchoprah.net 3/30/2009: Oprah Goes Inside the Yearning for Zion Polygamist Ranch Oprah Winfrey Interviews with residents at the Yearning for Zion ranch in Eldorado, Texas, a polygamous compound operated by the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
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...Barbara Walther, May 19, 2008, in San Angelo, Texas. (AP Photo/Brigitte Woosley) As we follow the tug-o-war between the Yearning for Zion Ranch and Child Protective Services, we never know what the day’s news will bring. Yesterday, we noted that in Texas District...
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jail late Wednesday after posting bond. (Aug. 7)[Notes:ANCHOR VOICE] [Notes:file of ranch, graphic of suspects]Four members of the polygamist sect at the center of a child custody battle with Texas are out of jail.The four men - two in their 30s and two in their 50s - turned themselves in last week. They all face charges of sexual assault of a child.The men likely headed home to the Yearning for Zion Ranch, where officials took custody of more than 400 children this spring. Child ...
BOYS FROM THE YEARNING FOR ZION RANCH BACK INTO FOSTER CARE -- SAYING THEIR MOTHERS REFUSE TO LIMIT THEIR CONTACT WITH MEN ACCUSED OF BEING INVOLVED IN UNDERAGE MARRIAGES. [Notes:VO--FILE]A SPOKESWOMAN FOR THE STATE'S CHILD PROTECTIVE SERVICES SAYS THE CHILDREN WILL BE ALLOWED TO STAY WITH THEIR MOTHERS UNTIL A HEARING HAS BEEN HELD -- WHICH IS SCHEDULED FOR LATE SEPTEMBER. [Notes:VO--FILE] IN ANOTHER DEVELOPMENT -- CPS HAS ALSO REQUESTED THAT THE CASES INVOLVING MORE THAN 30 OTHER CHILDREN ...
Yearning for Zion Ranch in 2008 that didn't make the evening news. One thing for sure, the bad guys got away. Contact me if you'd like to help me turn my research and notes into the first book on the raid to be added to the raft of (mostly anti) FLDS books that have hit the best seller lists. Need a woman writer that can crank out a tear jerker given the background of facts and fictions that hit the media, or do some original interviews of FLDS and other participants. ... flds polygamy cps ...
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The cost of the April raid on a polygamist compound in West Texas is expected to top $14 million, about one-third of it in lawyers' fees. That's according to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, which obtained more than 400 pages of invoices, e-mails and other state records from an open-records law request. The biggest chunk of spending is expected to stem from court proceedings after the state seized about 460 children from the Yearning For Zion Ranch near Eldorado, which is owned by the ...
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