Ex-FLDS member: Jailed sect leader kept detailed notes about interactions with church members

By AP
Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Ex-FLDS member takes stand in polygamist trial

ELDORADO, Texas — A former member of a polygamist group has taken the stand in the sexual assault trial of the first group member tried since Texas authorities raided the group’s ranch last year.

Rebecca Musser left the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in 2002, before the church bought the Yearning For Zion Ranch in Eldorado (el-doh-RAY’-doh).

But she testified Wednesday that jailed leader Warren Jeffs kept detailed notes on his interactions with church members because he believed God would hold him accountable.

Jeffs’ notes are likely to be a key part of the prosecution’s case against 38-year-old Raymond Jessop. Jessop is charged with sexual assault of a child, stemming from his alleged marriage to an underage girl.
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Sally Perceival
December 22, 2009: 11:06 am

Saskatchewan Canada allows a common law/coha bitating spouse to have a sametime civilly married (not divorced) spouse.
A woman can have more than one simultaneous spouse resulting in multiple claims to property, step-children support matters and related issues. It would be unequal treatment to all women to not allow multiple civil marriages as well. Women have fought hard to have “common law marriages” allowed the same rights and priviledges under provincial jurisdictions as civilly married persons. Now, it is time for women to be heard and ask the legislators to allow plural civil unions since Saskatchewan allows a mix of plural cohabitation and civil spouses to exist at the same time. The rights and freedoms of women will be greatly enhanced. If I am married I should not be required to pay for a divorce first just so I can obtain another spouse. I shouldn’t have to get permission from a man to become his spouse as long as we live together. I should also have the right to go back to my first husband with half of all subsequent spouses properties and remain married to him ( or any of them) if I so choose.
Abusive relationships including sexual exploitation of minors is a seperate matter that requires immediate action to erase.
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