John Botscharow

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Archive for September, 2007

Sect Leader Is Convicted as an Accomplice to Rape – New York Times

Posted by John Botscharow on September 26, 2007

‘This post is a follow up to my earlier post Fundamentalist Population Control: Polygamy and Mathematic

The self-proclaimed prophet of the Fundamentalist Church of Latter-Day Saints, Warren Jeffs, has been found guilty in a rather interesting verdict. He was found guilty of being an accomplice to rape. Not polygamy related charges – the FLDS promotes polygamy, which is illegal even in Utahl not incest related charges – the woman in the case was forced to marry and have sex with her cousin (Jepps is awaiting trial on incest related charges in another case. Read the rest of this entry »

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