Update: 05/08/2011 - religion - sects - USA
Polygamist sect leader convicted of child sex abuse
A jury in the US on Thursday convicted Warren Jeffs, the leader of a radical Mormon splinter group, of sexually abusing teenage followers. Jeffs, who is believed to have had 78 wives, is seen by the sect's 10,000 members as God's spokesman on earth.
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