Eldorado News

A Texas appeals court has upheld the sexual-assault conviction of a polygamous sect member who spiritually married a 15-year-old girl in 2004 at a ranch in Schleicher County.

Contributed photo Oran Bigby prepares one of his prize Rambouillet rams for a sheep show in Brownwood in the early 1960s.

Women and children from the FLDS Church congregate outside a makeshift shelter in San Angelo, Texas, April 6, 2008.

A Texas jury on Wednesday sentenced a former high-ranking follower of Warren Jeffs to serve 10 years in prison for bigamy, the San Angelo Standard-Times is reporting.

A former lieutenant to polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs was convicted Wednesday of illegally taking three wives besides his own, despite his attorney's argument that "celestial marriages" weren't forbidden by state law.