More than a year after Texas officials descended on the Yearning For Zion Ranch, removing a polygamist sect's 439 children after finding underage brides, the first criminal trial tied to the raid ...

SAN ANGELO, Texas (Reuters) - Ex-bishop Fredrick Merril Jessop was found guilty on Monday of marrying a 12-year-old girl to polygamist leader Warren Jeffs, who is serving a life term for sexually ...

SAN ANGELO, Texas — A mother accused of failing to protect her children from abuse because a daughter was allegedly given at age 12 in marriage to jailed polygamist leader Warren Jeffs plans to fight ...

The son of one of the most powerful families within a polygamist Mormon sect goes to a sexual assault trial t Monday, a case in which Texas prosecutors will provide their first public evidence that ...

AUSTIN — A woman who fled the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints after years of sexual abuse is hopeful — but not that optimistic — that men from the Eldorado compound will be ...

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An elder of a polygamist sect and two other church members surrendered to authorities Monday to face felony charges relating to the marriage of underage girls to older men. The girl was 12 at the time ...

Carolyn Jessop has written a book about her life in a polygamous cult. Oct. 29, 2007 — -- By the time Carolyn Jessop was 18 years old, she had been coerced into an arranged marriage with a ...

LUBBOCK -- A polygamist leader in West Texas has agreed to pay child support dating to 2003, when his then-wife left the sect with their eight children. Frederick Merril Jessop, the bishop of the ...

SAN ANGELO — The child bride of polygamist leader Warren Jeffs was ordered into foster care Tuesday by a judge who said the girl's mother had shown herself unwilling to ensure her protection from ...