Source: Salt Lake Tribune

A Texas judge has set the first criminal trials for members of a polygamous sect for October.

Raymond M. Jessop and Allen Keate are slated for jury trials beginning Oct. 26 on sexual assault charges. Trials for eight other men indicted by a Schleicher County Grand Jury will be set one per month, 51st District Judge Barbara Walther decided Monday.

The grand jury indicted 12 members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints last year on charges related to underage marriages. With the exception of FLDS leader Warren S. Jeffs, the 10 men charged with felonies attended the hearing at the Schleicher County Courthouse.

The case involving physician Lloyd H. Barlow, charged with misdemeanor counts of failure to report child abuse, has been moved to Tom Green County.

The judge also set May 13 to hear arguments to throw out evidence seized from the Yearning For Zion Ranch, which authorities raided last April after receiving a call alleging abuse. The call is now believed to have been a hoax.

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