Victim: Jeffs case about abuse, not religion
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Polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs was found guilty of being an accomplice to rape by using his religious authority to push a 14-year-old girl into marriage. Elissa Wall, who testified about being a child wife, said after the verdict: "This has not been about religion or a vendetta. It was simply about child abuse."
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Police say an incident involving the Bishop of Southwark is not being treated as a mugging.
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A young man whose arranged marriage to a young cousin led to the conviction of polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs was charged Wednesday with her rape.
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LOS ANGELES  - A homeless man with a passion for prayer will be taken to court. On Thursday, Dec. 2, Superior Court Judge Leland Harris ruled that drifter Zack Sinclair, 34, will stand trial for
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CALGARY (CP) - A Calgary man suing the Jehovah&#39;s Witnesses, claiming they contributed to his daughter&#39;s death by encouraging her to avoid life-saving blood transfusions, said Friday his lawsuit is for her and for his family.
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13-year old Megan Meier, after being cruelly taunted by a "Josh Evans" on MySpace,   hung herself in her closet with a belt.  Lori Drew, the mother of one of Megan's former friends, admitted in a police report that Josh Evans was really her, but later denied it.    The police investigated, but were unable to find any crime they could charge Mrs. Drew with.  The state of Missouri is proposing to   outlaw internet harassment, but under the US Constitution, such a law could not apply retroactively.    But Federal prosecutors may have found a way to prosecute Mrs. Drew...
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By Ben Winslow Deseret Morning News  While Fundamentalist LDS Church leader Warren Jeffs is remaining silent on a personal-injury lawsuit filed against him, lawyers for the polygamist church's financial arm are registering their objections.
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The polygamist "prophet" is found guilty of accessory to rape, a victory for a novel legal tactic focusing on child abuse
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Singer Michael Jackson lawyers request that his accuser is not referred to as a 'victim' during his forthcoming trial.
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Dec. 11 -- After killing two young people at a missionary training center in a Denver suburb on Saturday night, but before taking the lives of two more at a megachurch on the outskirts of Colorado Springs the following afternoon, Matthew Murray posted a screed on an Internet forum.
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The teenage boy who accuses Michael Jackson of molesting him has been judged not to be examined by a psychiatrist. Santa Barbara Superior Court Judge Rodney Melville denied the
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Polygamist sect leader Warren   Jeffs, who was arrested last week after two years on the run,   made his first Utah court appearance on Wednesday by   closed-circuit TV and told a judge he understood the charges   against him.
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By Lee Benson Deseret Morning News  The kind of thing that only happens somewhere else, to somebody else, happened here.  We need therapy.  My one request:  Please do not call the cold-blooded murderer who did it a nice kid.  Or generous or kind or good.
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A 16-year-old girl whose parents thought she had run away from home returned with a much different story: She had been repeatedly beaten and raped by a man for four years, one of which she spent captive in his basement. John Paule France Gonzales, 22, pleaded not guilty Tuesday to 142 counts, including lewd and lascivious acts on a child, sodomy and penetration with a foreign object.
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Between the time Roman Catholic Church officials first learned in 1997 of allegations that the Rev. Joseph Byrns had molested two altar boys 30 years ago and finally removed him in June, the cleric allegedly abused another altar boy, law ...
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Prosecutors wrapped up their case against defrocked priest Paul Shanley on Monday after a psychologist testified that it is not uncommon for adults who suffer trauma as children to repress memories of the experience.
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A federal judge heard arguments Thursday in the case of an atheist who wants to prevent a Christian minister from reciting a prayer at President Bush's inauguration.