Breeder cult pedophille marriages revealed

Houston Chronicle:

Warren Jeffs, the jailed leader of the nation's largest polygamist sect under investigation for sex with underage girls, married off his 15-year-old daughter to the 34-year-old son of his chief deputy, according to pictures, diaries and a marriage record obtained Friday by the Houston Chronicle.

In May, a series of similar scrapbook photos of young girls surfaced in court, showing very young girls in romantic kissing embraces with Jeffs, including a girl he married, who documents now indicate was 11 years old at the time.

But the documents involving Jeffs' underage daughter show that marriages of teen girls were not customs practiced only by some, but included the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints' leader, who sect members believe takes his orders directly from God.

Last year, Jeffs was convicted in Utah on two counts of accomplice to rape for his role in forcing a 14-year-old to marry her 19-year-old cousin.

The documents were attached to a report filed Friday by Court-Appointed Special Advocates, also known as CASA, in San Angelo.

"It is CASA's determination that if (Jeffs' daughter's) preferences were followed, it would place her in a dangerous environment and subject her to sexual abuse," the report stated.

The report contradicts interviews the girl and FLDS members have given denying that she was ever placed in a "spiritual marriage" with an adult member of the church.

The teen, whose name is not being published because she is a suspected victim of sex abuse, was one of more than 400 children taken from the FLDS' Yearning For Zion Ranch near Eldorado, about 400 miles northwest of Houston, after Texas Child Protective Services determined that all the children were subjected to either physical or sexual abuse.

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The CASA report details how Jeffs encouraged what officials deem to be sexual abuse. It cites copies of diary entries written by both the girl and her father, plus pictures that appear to be pulled from the teen's own photo scrapbook that include a picture of her embracing and kissing her husband, Raymond Jessop.

"I was shown that I should perform three marriage sealings tonight," according to a journal dictated by Warren Jeffs in which he describes marrying his daughter and two others, including the marriage of an 11-year-old girl to himself, on Thursday, July 27, 2006.

His daughter was married to Raymond Jessop, son of FLDS Bishop Merrill Jessop, considered by many to be Jeffs' right-hand man.

"I did gather my daughter ... and her mother Annette in this afternoon and gave her a training on how to be a heavenly wife and to get close to her husband," Jeffs wrote.

The girl's own diary, excerpted and attached in the court filing, confirmed that series of events.

"Father said ... the Lord would like you to get married tonight, now what do you think of that? Are you willing?" the teen recalled in her diary.

An excerpt from the girl's own diary also included a recollection of the marriage to Raymond Jessop in Eldorado at Warren Jeffs' home.

In a Dec. 27, 2006, entry, the girl wrote "The Lord blessed me to go forward in marriage July 27, 2006, the day after I turned 15 years old."

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This looks like smoking gun evidence for the state. The report appears to be based mainly on documentary evidence of the cult's activity. So far there is no report that I have seen on the DNA tests that were done on underage mothers. I think that evidence will be pretty revealing when introduced and is primarily the reason why many of the "husbands" are on the lamb.