A US polygamist sect leader has been sentenced to five years to life in jail as an accomplice to rape for forcing a 14-year-old girl to marry her cousin.
A Utah court said the state board of pardons would Baseball: First for Rockies ...
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The self-proclaimed prophet spent 15 months on the run before his arrest in August 2006.
He was found guilty in September of two counts of encouraging the young girl to have sex against her will.
Jeffs was the head of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. The sect split from the Mormon Church after it renounced polygamy.
He went into hiding after being charged in Arizona with being an accomplice to incest and sexual misconduct for allegedly arranging marriages between minors and older men.
At the time of his arrest he was on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list.
(BBC)
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