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...Warren Jeffs, head of the breakaway polygamist Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints (FLDS), has been convicted in a St. George, Utah, court, of being an accomplice to rape, for forcing a 14-year-old girl to marry her first cousin. He faces other charges in Arizona and federal court. While this first case focused on the marriage of a young girl, many young boys' lives have been severely affected by the FLDS, and the Utah trial opened a window into their sad stories...
...warning of impending apocalypse, Jeffs closed the school and moved to the twin towns, where he quickly established himself as more strict and inclined to separatism than his father, the Prophet Rulon Jeffs, who died in 2002. Warren Jeffs, who inherited many of his father's estimated 75 wives, inveighed against newspapers, television, the Internet. Beware of too much laughter, he told followers, which causes the spirit of God to leak from your body. He outlawed basketball games and television and holidays, and when a child was mauled by a Rottweiler, he ordered that all the dogs in town...
...escape. She had never even been kissed when she was told she was to marry her cousin. Horrified, she went to Rulon Jeffs and pleaded to be allowed to wait a few years or be given to a different man. Though "Uncle Rulon" seemed sympathetic, it was Warren Jeffs, she says, who informed her that "your heart is in the wrong place. This is what the prophet wants you to do." Her sisters, including one who was among Rulon's wives, also opposed the marriage but felt powerless to stop it for fear of being banished...
...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...
While the Gates Foundation is the largest charitable institution in the world, it is known for its unusually small executive team. The foundation has just three trustees—Bill and Melinda Gates, and Warren E. Buffett, who last year promised more than $30 billion of his fortune to the foundation...