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Jeffs follower pleads no contest
Gets seven years in prison
Updated: Tuesday, 01 Nov 2011, 5:05 PM CDT
Published : Tuesday, 01 Nov 2011, 5:04 PM CDT
ROBERT LEE, Texas (AP) - A judge has sentenced a follower of polygamist leader Warren Jeffs to seven years in prison for bigamy and child sex assault.
The San Angelo Standard-Times reports that Leroy Johnson Steed pleaded no contest Tuesday to two counts of bigamy and one of child sex assault in state district court in Robert Lee.
Steed is the 10th of 12 men in the Jeffs-led Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints to be prosecuted with evidence from an April 2008 raid on the Yearning For Zion Ranch in Schleicher County.
State District Judge Barbara Walther handed down the sentence before in the same Coke County courtroom where she's presiding over the trial of former FLDS bishop Fredrick Merril Jessop.
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