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Yearning for Zion Ranch
The Yearning for Zion Ranch was a polygamist compound that was raided by police in March 2008.
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 of a West Texas ranch was sentenced to 10 years in prison Tuesday for sexually assaulting an underage girl with whom he had a so-called "spiritual marriage."
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ELDORADO, Texas - Raymond Merril Jessop, a 30-something polygamist sect member, and an underage girl were sealed for "time and eternity" Aug. 12, 2004, in a ceremony performed by "President" Warren Jeffs in his home at the Yearning for Zion Ranch near Eldorado, a Texas Ranger testified Thursday.
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From scrippsnews.com
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Jurors in the first criminal trial
following the raid of a polygamist group's Texas ranch have
sentenced a member to 10 years in prison for sexual assault of a
child.
Thirty-eight-year-old Raymond Jessop also was fined $8,000
Tuesday. His attor
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From kxnet.com
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ELDORADO, Tex. One of the leaders of a polygamist sect was convicted Thursday night of sexually assaulting an under-age girl whom the church elders had assigned to him as one of his nine wives. A jury of seven men and five women deliberated 2 hours 20 minutes before returning a verdict of guilty in the first trial of a dozen members of the Yearning for Zion Ranch just outside this rural hamlet in West Texas. The defendant, Raymond M. Jessop...
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From freerepublic.com
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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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From yourwestvalley.com
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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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From dailyreportonline.com
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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 yesterday of sexual assault of a child.
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From syndication.boston.com
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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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From yourwestvalley.com
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A polygamist sect member arrested following last year's raid of a west Texas ranch was convicted Thursday of sexually assaulting an underage girl with whom he had entered into a "spiritual" marriage, the state's attorney general said.
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