Atlanta, GA 9/26/2007 4:50:01 AM
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Warren Jeffs found guilty of accomplice to rape of 14-year-old

Polygamous-sect leader Warren Jeffs has been found guilty of being an accomplice of rape by performing a marriage between a 14-year-old girl to her first cousin in 2001. After 16-hours of debate, the jury reached a guilty verdict. Jeffs faces a maximum sentence of life in prison.

Jeffs, who was previously on the FBI’s most wanted list, is the president of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. He performed the arranged marriage in 2001 and was charged with two counts of rape by accomplice.

 

The girl, now 21, testified that her husband forced her to have sex saying it was “time for you to be a wife and do your duty.”

 

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