Eldorado

ELDORADO, Texas - The Texas attorney general's office says a 57-year-old member of a polygamist group has been sentenced to 33 years in prison for the sexual assault of a child.

ELDORADO, Texas - The first polygamist sect member to face criminal trial following the raid of a West Texas ranch was sentenced to 10 years in prison Tuesday for sexually assaulting an underage girl with whom he had a so-called "spiritual marriage." Jurors who last week convicted Raymond Jessop, 38, handed down the sentence that includes an $8,000 fine.

ELDORADO, Texas - The first polygamist sect member to face criminal trial following last year's raid at the Yearning For Zion Ranch in West Texas was convicted Thursday of sexually assaulting an underage girl with whom he had a so-called "spiritual marriage." Raymond Jessop, 38, didn't visibly react when the verdict was read after just more than two hours of jury deliberations.

ELDORADO, Texas - Prosecutors rested their case Thursday in the first criminal trial of a member of a West Texas polygamist sect after days of plodding through photos and records seized from the group's ranch.

ELDORADO, Texas - After days of meticulous plodding through photos and records seized from a polygamist sect's West Texas ranch, jurors could begin deliberating the sexual assault case against one of its members as early as Thursday.