Americans Against Abuses of Polygamy
(Reuters) – A rural West Texas jury handed ex-bishop Fredrick Merril Jessop the maximum prison sentence of 10 years on Tuesday, a day after finding him guilty of marrying polygamist leader Warren Jeffs to a 12-year-old girl. Jeffs, 55, leader of a breakaway Mormon sect, is serving a life term for sexually assaulting two child [...]
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 Yearning for Zion Ranch, signed the order in court Thursday. He will pay his former wife $148,000 for seven years of back child [...]
