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Grand jury meets in polygamist case
A West Texas grand jury is meeting again to consider possible charges against members of a polygamist group.
Today’s meeting in Eldorado was the third since authorities raided the group’s ranch in April following allegations that underage girls were being forced into marriages and sex.
About a half-dozen women wearing their trademark prairie dresses arrived with their lawyers.
It’s unclear whether the meeting would result in any new indictments against members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
At its last meeting, in July, the grand jury indicted polygamist leader Warren Jeffs and four followers on charges of sexual assault of a child. A sixth man, the group’s doctor, was indicted for failing to report child abuse.
Following the April raid, the state Supreme Court ruled it had overreached in moving all 440 children into foster care because it only presented evidence of five or six cases of abuse. The children were returned to their parents in June, though one girl — an alleged child bride of Jeffs — was put back in foster care Tuesday.
— Associated Press
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