82817400 Convict polygamist sect leader in hospital after hunger strike
Mormon sect leader Warren Jeffs polygamist-(Warren Jeffs), August 9 sentenced to life in prison, remains hospitalized in critical condition, according to Agence France-Presse on Monday, August 29, with reference to the American media. 55-year-old Jeffs, said the prison authorities, was taken to an emergency on Sunday at a hospital in Texas after a few days ago he started a hunger strike. How many days will continue the hunger strike and protested against what Jeffs, representatives of the prison authorities did not specify, saying only that doctors assess the condition of the convicted person as critical. Agency Associated Press, citing sources in the medical community, reports that Jeffs was starving for several weeks. At the moment, the interlocutors told AP, on condition of anonymity, the convicted leader of the sect is in an artificial coma. They also added that although Jeffs and was in critical condition, doctors believe that his life could be saved. Official representatives of the management of correctional institutions, Texas (The Texas Department of Corrections) in response to an inquiry AFP reported that Jeffs actually temporarily transferred from prison to treatment in a hospital in the state, but did not specify any other details. Warren Jeffs – head of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, whose followers practice polygamy – August 10, 2011, was sentenced to life imprisonment with possibility of parole no earlier than 45 years. Jeffs was convicted of sexual abuse of 12-year and 15-year-old girls. Moreover, as confirmed examination of DNA, 15-year-old victim gave birth to a child Jeffs. For the Jeffs verdict in August 2011, was the second. In 2007 he was sentenced to five years in prison, found guilty of complicity to rape a 14 year old girl, married to a member of the sect. It was reported that Jeffs in custody during the investigation of the first case, attempted suicide. New charges against Warren Jeffs, on the basis of which he was sentenced to life imprisonment, were made after police in Texas in 2008 conducted an operation on a ranch belonging to a fundamentalist church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Law enforcement agencies have received information that members of the sect to marry not only with older women, but also with adolescents. During the operation, the ranch had been taken more than 400 minors who were placed under temporary guardianship. Later, the authorities have allowed to return children to their families, but for several members of the sect, Inc. Tea Jeffs is already in that time behind bars, was prosecuted.
