"A Texas grand jury investigating crimes within the Fundamentalist LDS Church issued eight more indictments this afternoon.'There's eight indictments and four different people,' Schleicher County Clerk Peggy Williams told the Deseret News shortly after the grand jury ended for the day.
Williams declined to say what charges were filed or against whom, but did say that some of the charges were handed down against people who have already been indicted. The names will likely not be released until arrangements are made for the indicted individuals to surrender to the Schleicher County sheriff.
'The attorney general's office will arrange for their surrender through their attorneys,' Sheriff David Doran said Wednesday. 'We'll handle it from there.'
A message sent to the Texas Attorney General's Office was not immediately returned Wednesday."
UPDATE: It's all men. No women. Some are indicted for essentially aiding and abetting.
"A Texas grand jury investigating crimes within the Fundamentalist LDS Church issued more felony indictments this afternoon against four men.One FLDS man was indicted for conducting an unlawful marriage ceremony involving a minor, which is a third-degree felony, according to a statement from Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott. A second man was indicted on three counts of bigamy, a third-degree felony.
A third man was indicted on four charges: first-degree felony bigamy, second-degree felony bigamy, third-degree felony bigamy, and tampering with physical evidence, a third-degree felony, according to the attorney general.
The fourth person indicted Wednesday was FLDS leader Warren Jeffs. He was indicted for aggravated sexual assault, a first-degree felony. 'Today's sexual assault charge is in addition to Jeffs' July 2008 indictment for sexually assaulting a child,' Abbott said."
Also in the story, Rozita appears in Colorado on an "unrelated charge."
"Texas authorities have labeled Swinton a 'person of interest' in connection with the phone call that led to the April raid on the YFZ Ranch in Texas. But investigators are keeping quiet about the status of their ongoing investigation and whether any criminal charges are imminent. A recent records request by the Deseret News about Swinton's alleged involvement in the YFZ raid has been unfulfilled in part because many of the records are considered protected as part of the ongoing investigation.
'The responsive records in this instance comprise e-mail communications between DPS investigators and the assistant attorneys general assigned to assist those investigators in identifying and developing cases that can be criminally prosecuted,' lawyers for the Texas Department of Public Safety wrote in a letter to the Texas Attorney General seeking a ruling on whether they are public or not."
As long as they keep "investigating" Rozita, they don't have to talk about the case. It's not like she's hard to find. How difficult could this be?
The Deseret News - "A court-appointed lawyer for a 16-year-old girl taken in the raid on the Fundamentalist LDS Church's YFZ Ranch in Texas is seeking a restraining order against a high-profile member of the polygamous sect."The restraining order accuses FLDS member Willie Jessop of trying to coerce the girl into avoiding a subpoena to testify at next week's grand jury proceedings."
Right away we have two assaults. One is on a child who does not want to testify and doesn't agree with what it is they want her to testify about. The other on Willies character, much like the lies that were told last week about the FLDS Mafia that had no basis. Clearly airing those accusations was a set up of this action ("I'm AFRAID of EVIL WILLIE JESSOP, keep him away from my poor client.")
"'Based on my dealings with Willie Jessop, I believe that he exercises a great deal of control over (the girl), and I am certain that he is interested in protecting the church's interests and the interests of certain influential male members as opposed to (the girl's) legal interests,' court-appointed attorney Natalie Malonis wrote in an affidavit filed in a San Angelo court."
It must be Evil Willie's influence because;
"In a letter to Judge Barbara Walther, the girl denied being a sex abuse victim, said she was not pregnant and accused her attorney of acting against her wishes.
'I have tried to work with her since, and have tried to cooperate with her,' the girl wrote. 'I have told her the truth, but she continues to make derogatory statements about my religion and my family.'"
It can't be because her client wants her to go away and leave her alone, it has to be Evil Willie. This is sheer and outright panic behavior going into the Grand Jury proceeding. It's also evidence of coercion every bit as heinous if not more so than the coercion Evil Willie is supposed to be exercising.
"Malonis blames Jessop and filed the restraining order on Friday, including an affidavit from a private investigator working for lawyers suing the FLDS Church. Sam Brower also accused Jessop of intimidating him in the past."
Sam Brower is an anti FLDS activist. He has a vested interested in portraying Willie Jessop in an unattractive fashion.
"A Schleicher County clerk confirmed the grand jury has been called in but would not say why or when it would meet. But The Salt Lake Tribune has learned the hearing will be under way by Wednesday and is related to the investigation of residents of the Yearning for Zion Ranch, all members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. The grand jury met June 2 but didn't take up any FLDS-related matters."
