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Polygamist Prophet’s Trial Begins in US
The trial of self-proclaimed prophet and polygamist, Warren Jeffs, seems to reveal in appalling detail the stranglehold of US cult leaders on their own communities.
After 115 days on the Federal Bureau of Investigation's most-wanted list and a year in solitary confinement in a jail called Purgatory, the leader of the nation's largest polygamist sect has begun in Utah, in the western part of the country.
Warren Steed Jeffs, 51, holds the title of President and Prophet, Seer and Revelator of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, also known as the FLDS. He stands accused of being an accomplice to rape. The trial is in its fourth day of jury selection.
The charges stem from Jeffs' alleged practice of arranging marriages between adult male followers and underage brides.
The young accuser at the center of the trial is under police protection. "Jane Doe," as she is known in court documents, was 14 at the time she says Jeffs forced her into a "spiritual marriage" with a 19-year-old first cousin.
A reluctant child bride told a Utah jury Thursday that she was trying to preserve her eternal salvation when she obeyed Jeff’s command.
She said she disliked her cousin because he once had sprayed her with a water hose on a freezing day.
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