US EditionTowns Once Run by Warren Jeffs’ Polygamous Sect Emerge From Court Supervision Transformed
The court ended FLDS control over 90 years, transferring real estate trust oversight to a community board and enabling a shift to representative local governments.
- Last summer, the court lifted supervision of Colorado City, Arizona, and Hildale, Utah nearly two years earlier than expected after a 2017 order excised church control.
- The FLDS's long control of municipal institutions meant federal prosecutors accused the towns of running as an arm of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and denying non-followers basic services.
- The trust that controlled FLDS property was placed under a community board, which has been selling land as local businesses like a supermarket and winery replace FLDS stores.
- After oversight ended, newcomers and residents with no FLDS ties moved in, and Hildale Mayor Donia Jessop said people reconnecting with family members divided by the church face new social problems like drug use.
- Warren Jeffs, former FLDS leader , was convicted in Texas of sexually assaulting two girls and sentenced to life, while Briell Decker warns recovery from the 1930s FLDS settlement will take generations.
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Polygamous sect’s sway has dwindled in twin towns on Arizona-Utah line. Residents enjoy new freedoms
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Towns once run by Warren Jeffs’ polygamous sect emerge from court supervision transformed
COLORADO CITY, Ariz. (AP) — The prairie dresses, walled compounds and distrust of outsiders that were once hallmarks of two towns on the Arizona-Utah border are…
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Towns once run by Warren Jeffs' polygamous sect emerge from court supervision transformed
Two neighboring towns on the Arizona-Utah border that once served as a haven for a polygamous religious sect have entered a new era.
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