Warren jeffs biography
Warren Steed Jeffs (born December 3, ) is an American cult leader who is serving a life sentence in Texas for child sexual assault following two..
Warren Jeffs is the leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS), a polygamist sect based in Utah and Arizona.
Warren Jeffs
Warren Steed Jeffs (born December 3, 1955) is an American religious leader and criminal. He is a convicted sex offender. He is the ex-president of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS Church).
In 2011, he was convicted of two felony counts of child sexual assault.[5] He is serving a life sentence plus twenty years.[6]
Sexual abuse crimes
[change | change source]In 2006, Jeffs was placed on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted List because he had arranged illegal marriages between his adult supporters and underage girls in Utah.
In 2007, Arizona charged him with eight other counts in two separate cases, including incest and sexual conduct with minors.[7]
In September 2007, Jeffs was convicted of two counts of rape as an accomplice.[8] However this was overturned in 2010.[9]
Jeffs was extradited to Texas,[10] where he was found guilty for raping a 15-year-old he had married and for