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Judge orders imprisoned polygamist leader to give deposition

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FILE - In this Nov. 15, 2010 file photo, Warren Jeffs sits in the Third District Court in Salt Lake City. Imprisoned polygamist leader Jeffs has allegedly suffered a mental breakdown and isn't fit to give a deposition in a sex abuse case against him. (AP Photo/Trent Nelson, Pool, File)

Lawyer: Polygamist leader Warren Jeffs has mental breakdown

By BRADY McCOMBS - Associated Press

Yearning for Zion ex-polygamist ranch in Texas being sold

By JOHN MacCORMACK - Associated Press

Polygamous group lets go of sprawling Arizona worship center

By BRADY McCOMBS - Associated Press

Heidi Clark holds a photograph from her 1995 wedding at her home in Orem, Utah, on Friday, May 18, 2018. Clark became pregnant at 16 and married soon after, under pressure from her boyfriend's religious community of Seventh-Day Adventists in Pennsylvania, she said. “I always felt a little bit like I was trapped,” Clark said, now 40. “I was 17. I was so young.” Utah state Rep. Angela Romero wants to ban marriage for anyone under 18 as part of a national push to outlaw underage marriage. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

Utah lawmaker wants to raise legal marriage age to 18

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST - Associated Press

In this April 30, 2018, photo, Jena Jones, Director of the Short Creek Dream Center, guides a tour through the renovated facility, formally the home of polygamous sect leader Warren Jeffs in Hildale, Utah. The sprawling house surrounded by towering brick walls has been converted into a sober living center by Evangelical missionaries, the latest sign of the group’s dwindling control of the small community on the Utah-Arizona border. (Chris Caldwell/The Spectrum via AP)

‘Big House’ once owned by Warren Jeffs is now a sober home

By BRADY McCOMBS - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 21, 2015, file photo, Lyle Jeffs leaves the federal courthouse in Salt Lake City. The former polygamous sect leader was sentenced Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2017, to nearly five years for his role in carrying out an elaborate food stamp fraud scheme and for escaping home confinement while awaiting trial. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

Ex-polygamous sect leader gets nearly 5 years in fraud case

By BRADY McCOMBS - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 15, 2010 file pool photo, Warren Jeffs sits in the Third District Court in Salt Lake City. A daughter of polygamous sect leader Jeffs said he sexually abused her for years when she was a child growing up in the secretive group, according to an interview aired Friday, Nov. 10, 2017, on &quot;Megyn Kelly Today.&quot; Rachel Jeffs, now 33, said the abuse began when she was 8 and happened countless times, despite her mother's attempt to intervene, before she confronted him about it in a letter at age 16. (AP Photo/Trent Nelson, Pool, File)

Daughter says she was abused by polygamous sect leader

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In this Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2017 photo, young girls play together in Colorado City, Ariz. The community on the Utah-Arizona border has been home for more than a century to a polygamous sect that is an offshoot of mainstream Mormonism. The community is undergoing a series of changes as the sect's control of the town slips away amid government evictions and crackdowns. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

Polygamous sect slowly losing control over remote Utah town

By BRADY McCOMBS - Associated Press

FILE - In this Nov. 30, 2012, file photo, Elissa Wall attends a community meeting regarding the United Effort Plan (UEP) trust, in Colorado City, Ariz. Wall who was married to her cousin at age 14 in a ceremony overseen by polygamous sect leader Warren Jeffs has won a $16 million lawsuit against the group. Wall's lawyer said Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2017, that the decision lets attorneys investigate the secretive group's bank accounts and property held in states all over the U.S.(Trent Nelson/The Salt Lake Tribune via AP, File)

Ex-teen bride wins $16 million case against polygamous group

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST - Associated Press

Judge tosses lawsuit against attorneys for polygamous group

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST - Associated Press

This Dec. 16, 2014, file photo shows Hildale, Utah, sitting at the base of Red Rock Cliff mountains, with its sister city, Colorado City, Ariz., in the foreground. A trial that begins January 2016 in Phoenix is expected to reveal the inner workings of two secluded towns on the Arizona-Utah line that authorities say were acting as agents of a corrupt polygamist regime. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer/ File)

Arizona trial expected to reveal polygamous towns’ inner workings

By Jacques Billeaud and Brady McCombs - Associated Press

In this July 9, 2015, photo, Seth Jeffs, right, the brother of Warren Jeffs, the imprisoned leader of a polygamist sect, participates in a state water board meeting in Pierre, S.D. South Dakota regulators approved Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2015, the secretive polygamist group's request to draw water more quickly at its Black Hills compound even though the sect declined to provide many details about how many people live there. (AP Photo/James Nord, File)

Birth rate declines sharply in polygamous town

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A vehicle rests in debris after a flash flood Monday, Sept. 14, 2015, in Hildale, Utah. Authorities say multiple people are dead and others missing after a flash flood ripped through the town on the Utah-Arizona border Monday night. (Mark Lamont via AP)

Utah, Arizona floods kill 8, leave 5 missing in town known for sect leader

By Brady McCombs - Associated Press

Seth Jeffs, brother of imprisoned sect leader Warren Jeffs, leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, exits the Tom Green County courthouse in San Angelo, Texas, on May 20, 2008. Mr. Jeffs has told the state of South Dakota that members of the FLDS need more water for gardens, orchards and animal herds at the group’s ranch in the Black Hills near Pringle, S.D., prompting concern by neighbors and law enforcement about a possible influx of members who are being displaced from a compound on the Utah- Arizona border. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez, File)

State board to take up S.D. polygamist group’s request for more water

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State asks for takeover of polygamous towns’ water utility

By LINDSAY WHITEHURST - Associated Press

In this Dec. 16, 2014, photo, a girl runs past a street sign in Hildale, Utah. The sister cities of Hildale and Colorado City, Ariz., once run by polygamist leader Warren Jeffs, are split between loyalists who still believe he is a victim of religious persecution and defectors who are embracing government efforts to pull the town into modern society. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

Warren Jeffs, polygamist leader, awaits fate, leaves Utah town sharply divided

By Brady McCombs - Associated Press

This Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2014 photo shows the home outside of Pocatello, Idaho where authorities pulled out nine boys who were sent there for repentance missions by Warren Jeffs. On Thursday, Aug. 28, 2014, Nathan C. Jessop, a polygamous man who oversaw the home, pleaded guilty to three counts of child abuse. The boys were removed in July 2014 after the alleged abuse was reported by a boy who escaped. Jeffs is in a Texas prison, where he is a serving a life sentence for sexually assaulting underage girls he considered brides. (AP Photo/The Salt Lake Tribune, Chris Detrick)

9 boys pulled from polygamous home in Idaho

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Sheriff: Texas polygamists didn’t come to SD

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Hearing set to discuss polygamous board

By BRADY McCOMBS - Associated Press