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Odds and Ends => Etcetera => Topic started by: Ganieda on July 19, 2006, 03:38:19 am
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Okay, I know....this has nothing to do with NA frauds, but it is a very good example of just what a person, (cult leader, con, fraud, etc) can get away with.... if you feel it has no place on this forum, simply delete it.
[edit]Unnecessarily long quote trimmed.[/edit]Warren Jeffs - America's most wanted: The man with eighty wives
Warren Jeffs is the brutal tyrant behind America's leading Mormon cult - as well as a prolific polygamist with a penchant for child brides. For two years he has been the target of an FBI manhunt. Sanjiv Bhattacharya joined the chase
It is astonishing how much a cult leader can get done while he is on the run from the FBI. Witness the case of Warren Jeffs, leader of the largest fundamentalist Mormon cult in the US, the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS) whose members number in the region of 10,000.
In the two years Jeffs has been a fugitive from justice, he has built compounds in Colorado, South Dakota and Texas, the latter including a huge temple. He has rigorously controlled his followers, draining them of $5m (£2.7m) per month by some estimates, and performed scores of marriages in his capacity as "Prophet", no doubt adding to his own tally of 80 or so wives along the way (no one knows the exact figure).
It is also possible that he has raped dozens of children. Jeffs is wanted for sex with a minor, conspiracy to have sex with a minor and rape of a minor as an accomplice. If caught and convicted, he could face a lifetime in prison. That he has been able to do all of this while eluding capture - by not only the FBI, but police in six states - might suggest that he is a highly sophisticated fugitive. And perhaps he is. But he cannot take all the credit - for most of his two years in hiding, the law enforcement agencies have been as inactive as he has been busy.
full article at:
[edit]Link corrected.[/edit]http://www.religionnewsblog.com/15300/Warren-Jeffs---America--s-most-wanted--The-man-with-eighty-wives
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Sorry about the big slabs of yellow. This programme will be broadcast tonight on Channel 4 (http://www.radiotimes.com/ListingsServlet?event=10&channelId=132&programmeId=46011301&jspLocation=/jsp/prog_details.jsp) in the UK.
religionnewsblog.com is operated by Anton Hein (http://www.rickross.com/reference/scientology/Scien47.html#Anton_Hein), who ironically is a convicted paedophile (http://meganslaw.ca.gov/cgi/prosoma.dll?zoomAction=Box&lastName=Hein&firstName=Anton&Address=&City=&zipcode=&searchDistance=.75&City2=&countyLocation=&zipcode2=&SelectCounty=&ParkName=&searchDistance2=.75&City3=&zipcode3=&countyLocation3=&schoolName=&searchDistance3=.75&City4=&zipcode4=&countyLocation4=&pan=&distacross=107211¢erlat=38409907¢erlon=-121514242&starlat=&starlon=&startext=&x1=&y1=&x2=&y2=&mapwidth=525&mapheight=400&zoom=&searchBy=namelist&id=&docountycitylist=2&OFDTYPE=).