Jeffs' daughter wins protections
http://www.denverpost.com/breakingnews/ci_9470842
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A 16-year-old girl who, her attorneys said, was sexually abused in a West Texas polygamist group led by her father, Warren Jeffs, was given added legal protections Tuesday by a district judge who barred any contact between her and Jeffs.
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The new court order does not accuse Jeffs of abusing his daughter, who was released to her mother Tuesday afternoon. But the order signed by Judge Barbara Walther, who is overseeing the sect case, bars the girl from having "any contact, in any form," with Jeffs and another man, Raymond Jessop.
The girl's attorney, Natalie Malonis, and another lawyer, Tim Edwards, who represents the girl's mother, declined to say anything about who Jessop is or his relationship to the girl.
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In another development Tuesday, DNA test results from nearly 600 sect members — 462 from children — began arriving at Wal ther's court. The tests were ordered in an attempt to determine parental linkages and specifically to see whether girls younger than 16 had been married in violation of Texas law.
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A spokesman for the state Department of Family and Protective Services, Patrick Crimmins, said the agency could not comment on what the DNA reports showed or how the results might figure into the continuing civil and criminal cases.
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