Random Horrifying True Facts About Warren Jeffs (11 items)

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  (#4) He Admits to 'Immoral Actions' With His Sister and Daughter

  In 2007, Jeffs had telephone conversations with various family members while temporarily in Utah jail for an accessory to rape conviction. There, Jeffs “renounced” his prophet title because, when he was 20, he engaged in “immoral actions with a sister and a daughter.”  

  In 2011, court documents revealed Jeffs allegedly kept a journal chronicling his history of sexual assault: "If the world knew what I was doing, they would hang me from the highest tree."
   
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  (#7) The Prophet Endorsed Racism

  Another Southern Poverty Law Center recording revealed the Prophet’s tendency to preach racism: "The Black race is the people through which the devil has always been able to bring evil unto the earth." Jeffs, as a proponent of racial separation, also disapproved of interracial marriage: "If you marry a person who has connections with a Negro, you would become cursed."

  The YFZ ranch in Eldorado, Texas, was comprised of all white members.
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  (#6) He Allegedly Sexually Assaulted His Young Nephew and Niece

  During his trial in 2011, Jeffs’s 28-year-old nephew, Brent Jeffs, told jurors his uncle sexually assaulted him in a restroom following a “family meeting” when he was 5 years old. Jeffs allegedly asked Brent to kneel “like he was praying” before warning Brent “this is between me and you and God.” 

  Jeffs’s adult niece also told jurors he made her sit on his lap when she was 7 and did "inappropriate things” to her. She recounted the event:

  He said, 'You're a special girl' and that he would help me to go heaven. And he had a certain way of making me feel like I was special and he told me I'll go to heaven if I, for sure, just don't tell anybody.

  She was reportedly sobbing so hard in the courtroom the prosecutor stopped questioning her.
   
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  (#2) He Made Audio Recordings of Consummations and Sexual 'Training'

  Jeffs made at least some of his other reported 70-plus wives watch as he consummated his marriage to Jessop. Reportedly, he made an audio recording of the event. In 2001, prosecutors asked the jurors to listen to the recording when Jeffs was on trial for sexual assault.

  The tape, which investigators seized following his arrest in 2006, also included recordings of Jeffs instructing other “child brides” to “assist” and “comfort” him physically. It also documented him directing the girls to shave their pubic hair. Jeffs referred to the sexual misconduct as “heavenly sessions.”
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  (#12) He Preaches That He Is 'Christ Incarnate'

  When Jeffs’s father, Rulon, died, Warren took over the sect and began preaching he was “Jesus Christ incarnate,” according to a former FLDS member. He married several of Rulon’s wives, but not out of disrespect: he also preached that his father was God.

  Specifically, he explained Rulon Jeffs wasn’t dead but had been "renewed" or “reincarnated” into the form of Warren-Jesus. This, he claimed, made it okay for him to marry his father’s wives.
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  (#5) The Prophet Preached Homophobia

  The Southern Poverty Law Center compiled an intelligence report on Jeffs in 2005, including audio recordings of him expounding on various topics. Jeff maintained a homosexual partnership “is the worst evil act you can do, next to murder.” He continues, further explaining these relationships as “like murder. Whenever people commit that sin, then the Lord destroys them."

  Jeffs’s sermons contained homophobic themes, and the Prophet instructed women on how to combat same-sex tendencies: “[B]uild up young men by being submissive.”

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