Jury deliberates in polygamist leader's abuse trial

[Swede]

I hope he lives to be 100 and spends every second behind bars.



Jurors in the Texas child sexual assault trial of polygamist leader Warren Jeffs, who heads a breakaway Mormon sect, began deliberations in the case on Thursday.

Jeffs, 55, is charged with child sexual assault and aggravated child sexual assault in connection with his "spiritual marriages" to two girls, ages 12 and 14, at his sect's Texas ranch. He faces up to 119 years in prison if convicted.

Jeffs, in what was to have been his closing argument, simply stood silently in the courtroom for more than 20 minutes before quietly saying: "I am at peace." He then sat down.

Jeffs is considered the spiritual leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, and has argued in loud court outbursts that the court was trampling on his religious rights by trying the case.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/04/us-polygamy-trial-idUSTRE7736IW20110804

[montanacowboy]

1. He won't find those seeking sexual favors

in jail to be as compliant as an innocent 13 year old. May he spend long years suffering.

[w8liftinglady]

2. I'm right there with you. he's slime.