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A Tom Green County jury deliberated 62 minutes today before finding Merril Leroy Jessop guilty of sexual assault of a child in connection with charges he illegally married an underage girl.

Jurors leaned in to peer at sacred forms in the case of Merril Leroy Jessop. Jessop, 35, a member of a polygamous sect, is on trial, charged with sexual assault of a child in connection with allegations he illegally married an underage girl.

As testimony wrapped up last week in the Child Sexual Assault trial of FLDS man Merrill Leroy Jessop, more than a dozen witnesses testified on Friday, including Texas Rangers who were on the April 2008 raid on the YFZ compound.

Two DNA forensic analysts today told jurors there is a 99 percent chance Merril Leroy Jessop is the father of a child whose mother he allegedly married when she was underage.

Lawyers are in the final stages of seating a jury for the trial of Merril Leroy Jessop, 35, a member of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints charged with sexual assault of a child.

In the child sex assault trial of FLDS sect man Merrill Leroy Jessop, a jury pool of more than 2 hundred has been narrowed down to 36.

Attorneys in the trial of Merril Leroy Jessop, 35, who faces charges of sexual assault of a child, finished general questioning of potential jurors Monday and began the lengthier process of questioning them one by one to seat a jury.

This Friday the morning book group will discuss David Ebershoff's novel, The 19th Wife , which alternates between two narrators.

Court papers filed in an Arizona criminal case say a Utah sheriff's office is investigating allegations that false testimony was provided during the 2007 criminal trial of polygamous church leader Warren Jeffs.

A deadline to settle the years-long battle over land in the polygamous border towns of Hildale and Colorado City -- has come and gone.

About 6,000 members of the FLDS Church call the border towns of Hilldale, Utah and Colorado City, Arizona their home.

Who loves every woman he sees, There's always some kind of woman Who's a-puttin' him up a tree.

Vancouverites who practise "polyamory" are hoping a clarification of Canada's polygamy law will make their lifestyle of more than one conjugal partner legal.

Caleb Barlow is the first to acknowledge that he's one of the lucky ones. Caleb left Colorado City when he was in his mid-teens. He followed in the footsteps of some of his older brothers who also left, disgusted with the control and the isolation of the polygamist, FLDS community.

An elder of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints poses with his family, including his 5 wives.

In Section: Utah Vice >> Posted By: Leo Dirr "The truth is ugly so we put our prophets in prison." Charles Manson Maybe that's why Bible study is so popular in the joint, eh? Here is a list of 10 religious leaders who did time behind bars: 10.

Documents filed in Utah officially establish a new president of the polygamous church led by Warren Jeffs since 2002.

The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints has several towns established in Nevada, Utah and Texas.

Hundreds of pages from polygamous sect leader Warren S. Jeffs' daily diary made their way from a court case involving UEP Trust fiduciary Bruce R. Wisan to an Internet blog this week -- only to be quickly pulled after Wisan's attorney acknowledged they were filed by mistake.

I said from the get-go that the search warrant used to get on the YFZ Ranch property in Eldorado back in 2008 was overbroad, based on lies , and that evidence derived from the Great Eldorado Polygamist Roundup should be suppressed in criminal court.