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Warren Jeffs in a suit and tie sits in a courtroom, looking forward with a neutral expression.
Warren Jeffs Leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Warren Jeffs watching court proceedings in St. George, Utah, in 2007 where he was on trial for marrying a 14-year-old girl to her 19-year-old cousin.

Warren Jeffs

religious leader and convicted sex offender
Also known as: Warren Steed Jeffs
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Warren Jeffs (born December 3, 1955, Sacramento, California, U.S.) is the leader (2002– ) of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (FLDS), a splinter group that developed from communities that broke away from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS, Mormonism) and continued to practice polygamy after the LDS church abandoned official support for plural marriage in 1890. He was arrested in 2006 and convicted in 2007 of rape as...

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