Easily the most disturbing is that physical contact between a man and his wives is utterly prohibited, and physical intimacy––meaning sex––is expressly prohibited. In the years since his arrest, 'Uncle Warren' has issued new rules from jail. Yet, despite that fact that he is currently serving a sentence of life plus 20 years from state prison in Palestine, Texas, Jeffs continues to control the cult from behind bars, using his loyal brother Lyle Jeffs as a proxy and mouthpiece. In 2011, Jeffs was successfully convicted on two counts of felony child sexual assault for the rapes of just two of his child brides, ages 12 and 15. He had 78 wives at the time of his arrest-a third of them under the age of 17. He was succeeded by a series of men more recent was 'Uncle Rulon' Jeffs, who died in 2002 and was famously succeeded as Prophet by his son Warren.Īfter crisscrossing the country to evade police, and ultimately landing himself on the FBS's 10 Most Wanted list, Warren Jeffs was captured in Las Vegas in 2006. Barlow (whose last name is claimed still today by many of his descendants) was the first leader of the FLDS, until his death in 1949.

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