Raymond Jessop

After deliberating for more than five hours, a jury decided Tuesday that a member of the Utah-based Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will serve 10 years in prison and will also pay an $8,000 fine for child sex assault. Raymond Jessop, 38, was convicted last week of child sex assault for fathering a child with a 16-year-old girl who was a polygamous wife.

Jessop said after the verdict that he was at peace with the decision. Jessop is the first of 12 FLDS members to face criminal charges coming out of last year’s raid on the Yearning for Zion Ranch.

Source/Full Story: KSTU
Technorati Tags: FLDS, Raymond Jessop

It is never a matter of law vs no law, but has always been a question of whose law:  The law of YHWH or the law of man. 

Let’s get this straight.  The law-giver = the god.  Today, the law-giver to the people is the State.

When people like Carolyn Jessop make a statement such as “God’s laws supersede the laws of man” in the courtroom, naturally this will be taken as a major offense against the State…against the “people.”  People say “ahh hah, he thinks he is above the law!”  It’s a great big nail in the coffin, so to speak, of Raymond Jessop.  That’s why she is saying it.  Because the State is the “god” and “law-giver” of the people, and as such cannot tolerate an opposing law-system, such as that which is declared by YHWH in the Holy Scriptuires.  To do so would be suicidal for the State.  Ironically, Christians today don’t see that the same principle applies to them.  Hmmm…

You will find the mass of Churchianity to be in complete agreement with Carolyn Jessop and those of her ilk on this matter of polygamy, because they themselves have rejected the laws and precepts and judgements of YHWH long ago, and instead worked hard to help fashion a new law-giver, in their own image.  Result?  The State.  They might say to themselves that “we are to follow the law of man unless it conflicts with the law of God”, but fortunately for them it never quite becomes an issue because there are never any real conflicts.  Don’t you find that a bit odd?  I do.

Indeed, “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked…”  and the State reflects this perfectly.  The people/State, war against the Word of YHWH and his people.  By and large they have been successful…only a remnant remains.  Praise be to YHWH!

A jury that convicted a member of the Utah-based FLDS Church will begin deliberating his sentence. After a day-long hearing on Monday that included hours of testimony, a judge set closing arguments and deliberations on Tuesday in the case of Raymond Jessop. Jessop, 38, was convicted of child sex assault for fathering a child with a 16-year-old girl who was a polygamous wife. He faces up to 20 years in prison.

The jury is deciding the sentence. On Monday, testimony included an FBI agent, a pair of Texas Rangers who testified about documents, and two former members of the polygamous church. Carolyn Jessop, who was once Raymond Jessop’s step-mother by marriage to his father, testified about her experiences within the FLDS Church.

“Polygamy was a saving principle of God,” she said. “God’s laws supersede the laws of man.”

Source/Full Story: KSTU
Technorati Tags: FLDS, Raymond Jessop

The first polygamist sect member to face criminal trial following last year’s raid at the Yearning For Zion Ranch in West Texas was convicted Thursday of sexually assaulting an underage girl with whom he had a so-called “spiritual marriage.”

Raymond Jessop, 38, didn’t visibly react when the verdict was read after just more than two hours of jury deliberations. Free on bond during trial, he was immediately handcuffed and led to jail. Jurors were expected to return to court Monday to begin deciding his sentence on the child sexual assault conviction. He faces up to 20 years in prison.

Lawyers in the case declined to comment on the verdict Thursday.

Source/Full Story: huffingtonpost.com

Four deer in the headlights…

Source: CNN.com

Five members of a polygamous sect who were indicted alongside leader Warren Jeffs last week turned themselves in Monday to face sexual assault charges, Texas authorities said.
From top left, clockwise: Allan Keate, Raymond Jessop, Michael Emack and Merrill Jessop were all indicted.

From top left, clockwise: Allan Keate, Raymond Jessop, Michael Emack and Merrill Jessop were all indicted.

Four of Jeffs’ followers were charged with one count of sexually assaulting a girl under the age of 17, and each faces five to 99 years in prison, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott said.

One of those four also faces a bigamy charge.

A fifth follower is charged with three counts of failure to report child abuse, he said.

Bail for the defendants facing felony charges — Raymond Merrill Jessop, 36, Allan Eugene Keate, 56, Michael George Emack, 57, and Merrill Leroy Jessop, 33 — was set at $100,000 each. Lloyd Hammon Barlow, 38, charged with the misdemeanor failure to report child abuse, faces a sentence of up to six months in prison and a fine of $2,000 per count.

From: MyFox Utah

Jailed polygamist leader Warren Jeffs married his daughter to the 34-year-old son of his chief deputy the day after her 15th birthday, according to photos, diaries and a marriage record kept by his sect and obtained Friday by the Houston Chronicle and the San Antonio Express-News.

The documents were part of a report filed Friday by the girl’s guardian, Court-Appointed Special Advocates, in a San Angelo court, the newspapers reported. The report contradicts interviews given by the girl and the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints denying that she was ever put in a “spiritual marriage” with an adult church member.

“Based on the information in the attachments, CASA feels that (the girl) would be at risk for continued sexual abuse,” the CASA report states.

Jeffs’ daughter, now 16 and in her mother’s custody, is involved in a legal fight between the FLDS, the Texas attorney general, who is presenting a criminal case against the sect to grand jurors next week, and her own court-appointed attorneys.