Convicted Chiild Raper Warren Jeffs In Coma, May Not Survive.

[Lunabelle]

The coward is committing suicide.



By KATIE KINDELAN and KAITLYN FOLMER (@ABCKaitlyn)
Aug. 29, 2011

Warren Jeffs, the polygamous sect leader and convicted child rapist, is in a coma and may not survive, a source close to Jeffs tells ABC News.

Jeffs, 55, had been fasting for the past three days and became so weak that doctors at the Texas prison where he is serving a life sentence induced a coma, according to the source.

The leader of a radical polygamist sect of Mormonism known as the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints (FLDS), Jeffs is scheduled to go on trial a second time in October to face charges of first-degree bigamy. Conviction would be punishable by up to 99 years or life in prison and up to a $10,000 fine.

Jeffs was moved last Tuesday to a solitary cell at the Powledge Unit in Palestine, Texas, because of the large amount of media coverage surrounding his case, prison officials said.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/source-warren-jeffs-coma-survive/story?id=14405162

[provis99]

1. jeez what a weakling. 3 days without food?

so what great cause is he on a hunger strike for? The right to rape little kids?

[dsc]

2. from a three day fast?

that seem pretty fast to be that weak.

[RebelOne]

5. I have fasted longer than that when on a diet. n/t

[TheWraith]

12. Yeah, I'm calling bullshit on this.

Notice that the story cites a "source close to Jeffs." In other words, one of his people, repeating his story. Probably trying to grab some PR or make a case for him not being able to stay in prison for health reasons.

[Broderick]

3. Hopefully in that ill conceived religion

Suicide is frowned upon. all we need is another martyr in this world.

[monmouth]

4. Where are my votive candles...n/t

[lillypaddle]

6. "Church of Lies"

I'm reading it right now - the author is Flora Jessup, a woman who escaped the FLDS & the Jeffs, and now rescues others, mostly kids & women. If the Warren Jeffs trial hadn't happened, and the resultant media, I wouldn't have believed her. It's unbelievable that this shit can go on in this country, in this day & age.

A coma & hunger strike is too kind.

[stopbush]

7. Jeebus is calling him home to rape children in heaven.

Isn't that special?

[MuseRider]

8. The doctors induced the coma because he became so

weak. He will be fed while in that state (I would assume religious fasting is not enough to stop medical people from giving him what he needs to live). It is the "other medical conditions" that may be making him so weak after fasting and may be the reason for his critical but stable condition. It would be very unsatisfying if he was so ill that he could not spend at least some miserable years in prison after what he has done to so many.

[Raine]

9. Only 3 days and he's near death(?) something doesn't

smell right with this. x(

[notadmblnd]

10. Is there any chance that the people around him could help him fake his death?

weak 3 days from not eating doesn't sound right.

[Bluebear]

11. In prison?

[LeftyMom]

13. Go towards the light!

Save the taxpayers some money.

[uppityperson]

14. UPDATE "the 55-year-old prisoner's coma was medically induced and he IS expected to survive"

http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2011/08/29/general-us-polygamist-leader_8649168.html

Imprisoned polygamist leader Warren Jeffs is in a coma in a Texas hospital after complications from fasting.

A person familiar with Jeffs' condition told The Associated Press on Monday that the 55-year-old prisoner's coma was medically induced and he's expected to survive. The person requested anonymity because the person was not authorized to discuss Jeff's condition publicly.

Jeffs' attorney Emily Detoto (dee-TOH'-toh) says her client was taken to East Texas Medical Center in Tyler on Sunday night.

Texas Department of Criminal Justice spokeswoman Michelle Lyons says Jeffs hasn't been eating or drinking enough since being sentenced this month to life in prison for sexually assaulting underage followers. Lyons says Jeffs is in critical but stable condition. It's not clear how long he'll be hospitalized

[Sheepshank]

15. 3 days? There's a biblical implication here I'm sure.

death and then resurrection. Yeah, this dude is just like Christ. He will appear to his next successor within 3 days and pass along the mantle of Prophet, Seer and Revelator in a secret meeting.
At least his followers will try and draw some convoluted parallel...you watch.

[jberryhill]

16. Great... send him to the Libyan home for comatose convicts

[Warpy]

17. After three days?

If he's been refusing water, they can reverse this very quickly with IV fluids and they will.

Nobody starves to death in three days. Six weeks, maybe.

[demigoddess]

24. I agree, only if he had been refusing to drink water would

this kind of result happened so quickly. Sounds more like a suicide attempt than fasting to me. I guess he doesn't look forward to being in prison for years.

[struggle4progress]

18. Polygamist Warren Jeffs In Critical Condition

06:57 pm
August 29, 2011
by Howard Berkes

... Jeffs, 55, was rushed from prison Sunday night to a hospital in Tyler, Tx. Officials there refuse to discuss Jeffs' condition ... "He is being treated for a number of medical conditions," says Michelle Lyons, the TDCJ director of public information. Lyons declined to provide more details citing federal medical privacy laws ... Corrections spokeswoman Lyons says ... that "fasting is one small component. He has other medical issues that are more serious" ...

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2011/08/29/140046985/polygamist-warren-jeffs-in-critical-condition

[formercia]

19. Medical conditions

Does being an Inbred Pedophile count?

[struggle4progress]

22. Dunno

:shrug:

[Me.]

20. What A Crock!

[libmom74]

21. Who cares?

Let the child rapist die.

[SoCalDem]

23. fine.. let him save us all the money we would have wasted on him in prison. n/t

[no_hypocrisy]

25. His choice to choose death over redemption.

[Liberal_in_LA]

26. seriously?

[ladyVet]

27. From just three days fasting?

Must be something else going on. Although, now that I think about it, he didn't have much fat on them bones...

[Kablooie]

28. Wouldn't starving yourself to death be suicide and a sin in the eyes of God?