http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2008/07/27/magazine/20080727_FLDS_SLIDESHOW_index.html?scp=2&sq=FLDS&st=cse
5 polygamist sect men arraigned in abuse case
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iIdMpRHjN4hpNKBhfYyAsR4DDo4QD927RT280
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SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Five followers of jailed polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs were arraigned Tuesday on charges relating to child abuse and ordered to avoid their alleged victims when they post bond.
Raymond Merrill Jessop, 36, Allan Eugene Keate, 56, Michael George Emack, 57, and Merrill Leroy Jessop, 33, are charged with sexual assault of a child. Merrill Leroy Jessop faces an additional charge of bigamy.
Lloyd Hammon Barlow, the 38-year-old physician who lived at the Yearning For Zion Ranch, faces three misdemeanor counts of failure to report child abuse. He posted a $15,000 bond Tuesday, said Tela Mange, a spokeswoman for the state Department of Public Safety.
The other men remained jailed Tuesday evening on bonds of $100,000 for each charge. They were ordered by Justice of the Peace James Doyle to avoid their victims, to stay in Texas and only leave Schleicher County after notifying law enforcement.
The men will enter pleas at a later court hearing.
Prosecutors have refused to provide details on what the men from the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints are accused of doing, but documents from a separate custody case included a journal entry from Jeffs indicating Raymond Merrill Jessop was married to Jeffs' daughter the day after she turned 15.
The same entry, dated July 2006, said Merrill Leroy Jessop married another sect daughter that day, though it's not clear how old she was.
Jeffs, who was also indicted for sexual assault of a child in Eldorado, is jailed in Arizona awaiting trial on charges related to the marriage of underage girls to older sect members there. He was convicted in Utah last year as an accomplice to rape for marrying a girl to her cousin.
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