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...moment when her new husband began undressing her. She begged that he not touch her. "'I can't do this. Please don't,'" she remembered saying. "I was sobbing. My whole entire body was shaking, and I was so scared ... He just laid me onto the bed and had sex. It hurt," she said. "And I felt evil." Later, she went into the bathroom, swallowed the contents of a couple of bottles of over-the-counter pain pills and curled up on the floor. "I just wanted to die," she said...
...school to charge that he was giving the practice a bad name. At the same time, prosecutors were looking for a way to address growing rumors of abuses within the sect, and they turned to newly strengthened child-abuse and sexual-predator laws. In 2005, Jeffs was indicted for sex crimes in Arizona and Utah and became a fugitive. A year later, he was on the FBI's 10-most-wanted list until his arrest in August 2006 in Las Vegas. Police found $53,000 in cash as well as cell phones, wigs and laptops. When he appeared at preliminary...
Someone who holds down a woman while another man assaults her could be charged as an accomplice. But in this case, the state has to prove that Jeffs coerced the victim into having sex without her consent. "It's basically an ill-fitting suit for the facts of the case," argues Daniel Medwed, a professor of criminal law at the University of Utah College of Law. "It can be draped over the facts, but it doesn't fit snugly. There's wiggle room for the defense...
...looking for a settlement in a civil suit against Jeffs? Didn't she tell police that she partially blamed her mother for her marriage? Why did she never tell anyone she was being raped? Why is she smiling in her honeymoon pictures? Didn't she agree to have sex with her husband to get things she wanted, like money, visits to her family, other trips...
...explained about her confusion, embarrassment, her effort to hide what she was feeling. But the heart of the defense was whether Jeffs could have actually known that sex between them was nonconsensual. "What did Warren Jeffs have to do with what was going on in her bedroom?" Isaacson asked in her opening statement. "Did he even know she was being forced to have sex against her will?" The age of consent in Utah was 14, the lowest in the country. You may think that's too young, Isaacson said to the jury, but that doesn't make it illegal. Isaacson...