Warren Jeffs is the leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (FLDS), a Mormon fundamentalist group that continued to practice polygamy after the Mormon church abandoned official support of the practice. Jeffs succeeded his father, Rulon Jeffs, as prophet and president of the FLDS in 2002. Jeffs was arrested in 2006 and was later convicted in Texas of aggravated sexual assault of a child and sexual assault of a child. In 2011 he was sentenced to life in prison.
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