Yearning for Zion Ranch

Yearning for Zion Ranch

The Yearning for Zion Ranch was a polygamist compound that was raided by police in March 2008.

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SAN ANGELO, Texas — The first jury trial in more than a decade in the sleepy West Texas town of Eldorado involves an alleged polygamist and an accusation of sexual assault of an underage bride, a far cry from the occasional drunken driving cases that normally occupy the Schleicher County court system. Attorneys on Monday will begin culling the largest jury pool ever called in Eldorado to try to find 14 people in a county of 2,800 who can set aside what they’ve heard about a polygamist sect whose alleged marriages involving underage girls triggered a police raid that swept more than 400 children ... Read Full Story
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A polygamist sect is accusing the Texas Rangers of deliberately misleading a judge to acquire a search warrant to raid its compound last year. Attorneys representing 10 members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints filed motions Tuesday and Wednesday arguing that Texas Rangers Lt. Brooks Long withheld details that would have undermined the credibility of calls from a domestic abuse hot line that sparked the raid. Dirk Fillpot, a spokesman for the attorney general's office, called the accusations "baseless and without merit." The FLDS, which believes polygamy brings glorification in heaven, is a breakaway sect of the Church of ... Read Full Story
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Posted by ' onclick="show_hide_user_links(document.getElementById('userlinks-0'));"> god 3 minutes ago ( http://www.examiner.com ) View profile Texas child welfare authorities conclude in a new report that nearly two-thirds of the families living at a polygamist groups ranch - targeted in a high-profile raid last spring - had children who were abused or neglected. Add this link to...   Bury Tags   Tags : Add to:                  |   Bookmarks    Read Full Story
ELDORADO, Texas — The first polygamist sect member to face criminal trial following last year's raid at the Yearning For Zion Ranch in West Texas was convicted Thursday of sexually assaulting an underage girl with whom he had a so-called "spiritual marriage." Raymond Jessop, 38, didn't visibly react when the verdict was read after just more than two hours of jury deliberations. Free on bond during trial, he was immediately handcuffed and led...  
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ELDORADO, Texas — The first polygamist sect member to face criminal trial following the raid at the Yearning For Zion Ranch in West Texas last year was convicted Thursday in the sexual assault of a child.Jurors took a little more than two hours to convict Raymond Jessop, 38, of sexually assaulting a teen with whom he had a so-called "spiritual marriage.”Jessop allegedly has nine wives.Read more on NewsOK.com  
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The first polygamist sect member to face criminal trial following last year's raid at the Yearning For Zion Ranch in West Texas was convicted Thursday of sexually assaulting an underage girl with whom he had a so-called "spiritual marriage."  
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ELDORADO, Texas (AP) — Prosecutors rested their case Thursday in the first criminal trial of a member of a West Texas polygamist sect after days of plodding through photos and records seized from the group's ranch. Lawyers for 38-year-old Raymond...  
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ELDORADO, Texas (AP) — After days of meticulous plodding through photos and records seized from a polygamist sect's West Texas ranch, jurors could begin deliberating the sexual assault case against one its members as early as Thursday.Texas District Judge Barbara Walther....  
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(The Associated Press) A former member of a polygamist group has taken the stand in the sexual assault trial of the first group member tried since Texas authorities raided the group's ranch last year.Rebecca Musser left the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in 2002, before the church bought the...  
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Raymond Jessop, 38, was convicted on charges related to his "spiritual marriage" to an underage girl. It was the first criminal trial to follow last year's raid on the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints' ranch in Eldorado.  
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ELDORADO, Texas (AP) — The first criminal trial stemming from the raid of a polygamist sect's West Texas ranch came to abrupt halt Thursday after the child of a juror came down with a high fever and flulike symptoms. Texas District Judge Barbara...  
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A birthing center on the bottom floor of a log cabin-style building at a polygamist group's West Texas ranch was set up like a medical office with one distict difference: A portrait of jailed polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs hung over the delivery bed.  
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ELDORADO, Texas (AP) - The first of a dozen polygamist sect members charged with abuse of women is set to stand trial Monday, 18 months after agents raided the group's remote ranch and carted off more than 400 children in the largest child custody...  
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