The dramatic removal of 439 children a year ago from a polygamist settlement was a sound decision and the state would not hesitate to respond the same way again, Texas’ top child protection official ...

In the new four-part Netflix docuseries Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey, survivors who escaped polygamist cult leader Warren Jeffs share stories about their life and experiences in the Fundamentalist Church ...

BIG LAKE, Texas -- Extradited to Texas two years after being indicted, polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs will be facing Texas prosecutors who haven t lost a criminal case against his followers since ...

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Warren Jeffs, the jailed leader of the nation's largest polygamist sect now under investigation for sex with underage girls, married off his own 15-year-old daughter to the 34-year-old son of his ...

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We voiced our support of Texas authorities a few days after they seized 440 children from a religious polygamy compound and placed them in temporary government custody across the state. But it’s ...

HOUSTON (AP) – A former top lieutenant to polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs who was sentenced last year to a decade in prison is scheduled to be released on parole next week, Texas prison officials ...

Last week Netflix released its newest docuseries, Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey, a four-part true crime documentary that follows how leaders of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day ...

ELDORADO, Texas — Until he was about 10, life had been good to Roy Jeffs, son of the president and prophet of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Despite not having TV or ...