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ELDORADO, Texas — One by one, the women of the Fundamentalist LDS Church were called before the grand jury to testify in secret about allegations of crimes within the Utah-based polygamous sect.
By the end of the day, three felony indictments were handed down.
"There's three different indictments, three different names," Schleicher County court clerk Peggy Williams confirmed late Thursday. She would not say who was indicted or what the charges were.
Jeffs, 2 others indicted on bigamy in FLDS case
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ELDORADO, Texas — Fundamentalist LDS Church leader Warren Jeffs and two followers are the latest to be indicted by a grand jury here on bigamy charges, accusing them of polygamous marriages.
The indictments were unsealed after Raymond Merril Jessop, 36, and Michael George Emack, 57, surrendered to authorities at the Schleicher County Sheriff's Office on Friday afternoon. They were booked and released after each posted $10,000 bond.
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"Of course, Warren's in jail," Schleicher County Sheriff David Doran told the Deseret News after the arrests were made. "But they were able to post bond immediately. Everything was cooperative."
Jeffs, 52, is in an Arizona jail where he is awaiting trial on sexual misconduct charges accusing him of performing underage marriages. The FLDS leader was convicted in Utah of rape as an accomplice and sentenced to a pair of 5-to-life sentences for performing a marriage between a 14-year-old girl and her 19-year-old cousin.
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Six men have been indicted in total, including Allan Eugene Keate, 56, and Merril Leroy Jessop, 33, who was also indicted on sexual assault and bigamy charges.
FLDS community physician Dr. Lloyd Hammon Barlow, 38, was indicted on misdemeanor charges of failure to report child abuse. Barlow's charges will be handled in county court, said Schleicher County Attorney Raymond Loomis.
Another 49 FLDS children dropped from state oversight
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SAN ANGELO, Texas — Child welfare authorities are asking a judge to end court oversight of 18 more cases involving children taken in the raid on the Fundamentalist LDS Church's YFZ Ranch.
On Friday, the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services filed papers to "nonsuit" cases involving 49 children.
"That involves 18 moms," said agency spokeswoman Marleigh Meisner.
The decision to nonsuit ends the court oversight of the cases but does not end Child Protective Services' role in the cases "because they are technically still under investigation," Meisner told the Deseret News on Friday, adding that it was possible that more children will be nonsuited as the case progresses.
CPS has already nonsuited approximately 100 cases in the months since the April raid for various reasons. Either the children aged out of the system, the parents are taking adequate steps to protect the children or CPS found no sign of abuse and neglect.
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