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Prosecutors face detours, pitfalls on road to convict FLDS members
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Terri Langford - Houston Chronicle
HOUSTON — Indicting members of a polygamist sect on child sexual cat face makeup assault is one thing. But convicting anyone on child sexual assault charges is a much different, and tougher, thing to accomplish, according to legal experts.
Even if Texas Child Protective Services comes back with a finding that sexual abuse happened at the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints' Yearning for Zion Ranch in West Texas, the standard for a child sexual assault conviction is much higher, explained Professor Ellen strep on face Marrus, who heads the University of Houston's Center for Children, Law and Policy.
“The problem isn't round face thick wavy hair so much proving the issue that there had been sexual contact,” Marrus said. “The bigger issue is proving who did jenna haze face fucked it. So unless the child testifies that she had sex with a Mr. A or Mr. B, you don't have any proof who heart shaped face did it.”
On July 22, FLDS leader Warren Jeffs, 52, and four of his followers — Raymond Merrill Jessop, 36; Allan Eugene Keate, 56; Michael George Emack, 57; and Merrill Leroy Jessop, 33 — metal face foam sign letters were indicted on sexual assault camo face covers for a kyocera of a child charges. A sixth man, Dr. Lloyd Hammon Barlow, 38, was charged with three counts of failure to report child abuse.
Jeffs is in master chiefs face custody in Arizona where he is accused of arranging underage marriages. The other five surrendered to authorities recommended face cream last week.
Under Texas law, sexual assault of a child occurs when an adult has sexual contact with face recognition software freeware someone younger than 17. From the beginning, the 4-month investigation into whether FLDS members forced underage girls to have sex with litton face mask adult men through so-called hair styles oblong face spiritual marriages has been an uphill climb, one fraught with detours down forensic rabbit trails caused by very similar DNA and a well-funded defense.
Confusing relationships
What started with a March 28 complaint that at least one girl was being physically and sexually abused by a man decades her senior — a call now considered a hoax — quickly escalated into the largest, and arguably one of the most complex, child custody cases in the United States after CPS and law enforcement officers reached the remote face forward 1,700-acre YFZ Ranch that sits northeast of the tiny town of Eldorado.
There, they found a virtual diagram of the human face hamlet about a third the size of Eldorado that included nearly 500 children, many of them born in the past baseball to the face four years.
After interviewing more cum on big tits face than a dozen teen girls inside one of the sect's 19 lodge-like homes on the night of April 3, CPS investigators found evidence that not only were underage girls married, some brutal face fuck became mothers before turning 18.
Concerns about younger girls and boys being raised in an environment where girls could be made wives once they menstruated, CPS and law enforcement huddled with state District Judge Barbara Walther, who ordered all children to be removed.
But from the start, the sect's own demographic makeup and culture of providing little information to rocky face circle dalton outsiders, particularly after a 1953 raid on their homes by Arizona officials, has made this heavy face sitting free videos case difficult to say the least.
CPS pro tec face shield 3a investigators said they were given different names by both children and parents, muddying the effort to determine family groups. FLDS members have insisted they were hairstyles for round face not misleading but clarifying for CPS names they got wrong from the state.
The confusing tangle of family relationships within a sect where a handful of face peal families have intermarried face excercises for more than 100 years and often use the same names has been a major hurdle for both CPS girls feet in face and the Texas Attorney General's office now prosecuting the case.
According to one state wrist watches animal face source close to the investigation face symbols who asked not to be identified, at least five percent of DNA samples taken from children and parents was so similar when compared, it could not be determined in those cases which child belonged to which parent.
Also, investigators have complained of inconsistent stories from young women about whether they were married to adult west philadelphia girl gets face slashed men.
However, despite veriface face recognition the silence or varying versions about who is related or married to whom, investigators have been aided by an unlikely source: the sect's penchant for writing journals and recording family trees together with the women's scrapbooks of their lives as a road map of their actions.
This practice appears to be one adopted by many members, including the young girls who write about their hopes to be challenges women face in leadership positions united in marriage to a worthy FLDS man, the north face women s shirts an act considered their legacy and duty to their faith. The FLDS is not affiliated with mainstream Mormonism, which denounced polygamy more than a century ago.
Journal entries
In a Dec. 27, 2006 entry submitted recently to Walther's court, a teenage daughter of FLDS leader Warren Jeffs wrote “The Lord blessed me to go forward in marriage July 27, 2006, the day after I turned 15 years old.” The girl also kept scrapbooks that included pictures of her passionately kissing hairstyle face shape her new husband, 34-year-old Raymond Jessop. In another picture she is seen seated closely to her husband on a couch.
Her journal is not the only one among more than 1,000 boxes of documents pulled from the ranch by the Texas Department of Public Safety. Key among those documents are Warren Jeffs' dictated daily pages, a section of which was included in a court-appointed guardian's report on the well-being of one of the now 16-year-old teen daughter believed to be Jessop's wife.
“I was shown that I should perform three marriage sealings tonight,” states a journal entry dictated by Warren Jeffs in which he describes marrying his daughter and two others on Thursday, July 27, 2006.
“I did gather my daughter and her mother Annette in this afternoon and gave her a training on biker face mask how to be a heavenly wife and to get close to her husband,” stretch face Jeffs stated. The girl's man without a face own diary, excerpted and attached in the court filing, confirmed that series of events.
“Father said the Lord would like you to get married tonight, now what do you think of that? Are you willing?” the teen recalled in her diary.
But Rod Parker, a Salt Lake attorney and spokesman for the group says the excerpt proves woman pie in the face nothing about a sexual relationship, revealing what could be a strong legal defense to allegations of sexual abuse.
“I don't know if there's a marriage,” Parker said, meaning one that included sexual relations, “or (something) short of a marriage.”
That opinion was echoed by Willie Jessop, Jeffs' former bodyguard and a spokesman for the group in Eldorado.
“We told them the day (of the indictments) we were going to face that thing,” Jessop said. “The people are honorable. We don't believe we're criminals.”
Parker also noted, correctly, that the level of evidence needed to indict someone is far lower best beard for face shape than the type of evidence needed to convict someone “beyond a reasonable doubt.” And to convict, prosecutors will need much more than is required by stuff your face food brunswick CPS to confirm child sexual abuse occurred.
CPS investigators determine if there is “reason to believe” abuse has occurred. While there may be enough evidence for CPS to confirm the jennifer lopez face lift abuse there may not be enough evidence to convict an abuser.
In a CPS investigation, caseworkers only have to find “clear and convincing evidence” that abuse occurred to remove a child permanently from the home and move to sever parents' rights to the child.
“All this is much less than beyond a reasonable doubt,” Marrus said.
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