Texas polygamist gets 10 years for sexual assault

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Source: CNN

(CNN) -- A polygamist sect member arrested following last year's raid of a west Texas ranch was sentenced Tuesday to 10 years in prison for sexually assaulting an underage girl, authorities said.

Raymond Jessop was found guilty last week of assaulting a girl under 17, with whom he had entered into a "spiritual" marriage, said Jerry Strickland, a spokesman for the state attorney general.

Jessop also received an $8,000 fine, said Sheriff David Doran, of Schleicher County, Texas.

The victim in the case was one of 400 children seized from the Yearning for Zion Ranch in Eldorado, Texas, in April 2008 by state child welfare workers. The children were returned after the Texas Supreme Court ruled that the state had no right to remove them and lacked evidence to show that they were in danger of abuse.



Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2009/CRIME/11/11/texas.polygamist/index.html

[Demeter]

1. He Should Have Gotten Life

[uppityperson]

2. k&r

[comtec]

3. thats like 1 year for every 40 kids in that compound!

Nice to see the state of family values treating this as such a serious manner!!!

How long will he ACTUALLY be in prison however? he's already served time during the trial, etc. So that's one year down.

How much will he get off for good behavior?

Does he even have to register as a sex offender under Texas law?

BTW... my sincerest sympathies for our Texan brethren and sisteren. this is such utter bullshit that you guys have to live under.
I have some good friends in Texas, good people, so I know it's not all fucked up... just the government, and large swaths =\.

[Odin2005]

4. Not nearly long enough!

He should have gotten life.

[Hubert Flottz]

5. An $8,000 fine.

They'd better pass around the plate an extra lap.

People do more time and pay a bigger fine for having a bag of pot.

[kestrel91316]

6. 25 years and $100,000 fine would be slightly more suitable.

[CraftyGal]

7. I look at this way....

he is a convicted sex offender.