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Wednesday, August 13th, 2008Source: KXAN.com
The ex-husband of a teen bride who helped convict polygamous church leader Warren Jeffs on counts of rape by accomplice — could face trial.
Allen Glade Steed is charged in Utah with one count of first-degree felony rape for his sexual relationship with Elissa Wall after the couple married in a 2001 religious ceremony.
She was [...]
A lawsuit filed by a former child bride
Friday, August 1st, 2008Source: KCSG-TV St. George, UT
A lawsuit filed by a former child bride could ultimately bankrupt the trust that holds all property in Hildale and Colorado City.
The multi-million dollar personal injury lawsuit against the U-E-P trust was filed by Elissa Wall. Wall was the woman at the center of the case that ended in the conviction [...]
Legal web around FLDS trust growing tangled
Sunday, June 22nd, 2008Via Deseret News
…Lawyers for a former child bride who testified against FLDS leader Warren Jeffs want to keep the United Effort Plan Trust on the hook for any potential damages arising from her multimillion-dollar civil lawsuit against the polygamous sect. In a motion opposing the UEP Trust’s request for summary judgment, attorneys for Elissa Wall [...]
Stolen Innocence Gets a Big Screen Adaptation
Wednesday, May 28th, 2008OIC,
Via: MovieWeb.com
Killer Films is teaming up with HarperCollins’ Sharp Independent for a big screen adaptation of Elissa Wall’s memoir Stolen Innocence: My Story of Growing Up in a Polygamous Sect, Becoming a Teenage Bride and Breaking Free of Warren Jeffs. According to Variety, Wall’s court testimony helped convict known polygamist Warren Jeffs last [...]
Polygamist objects to ex-child bride’s book
Friday, May 16th, 2008Via CNN.com
Elissa Wall’s book, “Stolen Innocence,” was released Tuesday by publisher William Morrow.
It chronicles her life, including her time with cousin and former husband Allen Steed, whom she describes as having a violent temper and a “calculating and controlling” personality.
Steed is charged with raping Wall during their relationship, which was arranged in 2001 [...]
Elissa Wall’s book may hurt trial for FLDS man
Thursday, May 15th, 2008As if there will be anything like a fair trial in this case. This trial with Allen Steed is simply a formality. Think about it. If they find Allen Steed not guilty of rape, what does that do to the conviction of Warren Jeffs, who has has aleady been convicted of being [...]
Former under-age polygamous bride tells all in book
Wednesday, May 14th, 2008Via the Salt Lake Tribune
Months after helping to send Warren S. Jeffs to prison, Elissa Wall is telling her story in a book she hopes will lead women and girls to leave his polygamous sect. Stolen Innocence debuts amid a child custody battle in Texas involving the polygamous lifestyle and [...]
Shurtleff deposition set in child-bride suit
Tuesday, May 13th, 2008Oh yea, Elissa Wall’s new book is out on the market too, but…don’t put all your eggs in one basket.
Via the Deseret News
Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff will give a deposition in a former child bride’s multimillion-dollar lawsuit against the Fundamentalist LDS Church and its leader, Warren Jeffs.
Shurtleff confirmed to the Deseret News on Monday [...]
For the Record
Thursday, March 13th, 2008Among others, this was one of the “Public safety news from Tribune and wire reports” today:
“Steed rape hearing put off; no new date
“A hearing in the rape case against Allen G. Steed set for today has been postponed. Steed was charged in September after testifying about his marriage to Elissa Wall [...]
Former Teen Bride in Warren Jeffs Trial Writing a Book
Friday, February 1st, 2008The 22-year-old woman at the center of the trial of polygamous sect leader Warren Jeffs is writing an autobiography. The book is scheduled to be published in April.
Elissa Wall accused Jeffs, leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, of using his religious authority to force her at age 14 [...]