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After the raid in Texas, an FLDS spokesman indicated underage marriages would be discontinued.
NPR: Jailed Polygamist Leader Jeffs Hospitalized
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The real twist to this story: Jeffs just regained legal control of the FLDS last week.
FORBES: Polygamist FLDS Leader Warren Jeffs Sentenced to Life in Prison
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The FLDS split from the Mormon Church more than a century ago after the latter renounced polygamy.
BBC: NEWS | Americas | Uncertain future for US polygamy sect
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Both the Utah and Arizona cases involve an alleged FLDS practice of pairing underage girls with older men.
NPR: Jailed Polygamist Leader Jeffs Hospitalized
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Alleged practices associated with his FLDS faith prompted a child welfare raid at the group's Texas ranch and temple in April.
NPR: Jailed Polygamist Leader Jeffs Hospitalized
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Warren Jeffs, leader of a polygamist sect of the FLDS, a fringe Mormon group, was sentenced to 119 years in prison for sexual assault.
FORBES: Polygamist FLDS Leader Warren Jeffs Sentenced to Life in Prison
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The 50-year-old head of the Fundamentalist Church of the Latter-Day Saints (FLDS), was caught near Las Vegas after spending at least two years on the run.
BBC: NEWS | Americas | Uncertain future for US polygamy sect
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The FLDS has in the past denied the boys were competition for wives, and said they were expelled for being delinquents who refused to obey their rules.
BBC: NEWS | Americas | Sex claims hit US polygamy sect
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Hospital and law enforcement officials remain tight-lipped about the condition of Warren Jeffs, the jailed president and prophet of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS), the nation's largest polygamist group.
NPR: Jailed Polygamist Leader Jeffs Hospitalized
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Polygamy is illegal in the US, but the authorities have reportedly been reluctant to confront the FLDS for fear of sparking a tragedy similar to the 1993 siege of the Branch Davidian sect in Waco, Texas, which led to the deaths of around 80 members.
BBC: NEWS | Americas | Sex claims hit US polygamy sect