Polygamist Sect Members Sought
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Thursday, July 24, 2008
SAN ANGELO, Tex., July 23 -- Texas authorities began looking Wednesday for five indicted members of a polygamist sect, after a grand jury indicted them along with sect leader Warren Jeffs in a child sex-abuse case.
The group's spokesman alleged that the charges are a face-saving move by officials who lost a court battle over their seizure of hundreds of children from a sect-owned ranch.
Jeffs and four of the followers were charged in Texas with felony sexual assault of a child, and the fifth follower was charged with failing to report child abuse. One follower was also charged with bigamy. Jeffs was earlier convicted in Utah and jailed in Arizona on charges related to underage marriages.
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