Jeffs became Rulon's successor with his official title in the FLDS Church becoming " President and Prophet, Seer and Revelator" as well as "President of the Priesthood". Prior to his father's death in 2002, Jeffs held the position of counselor to the church leader. He was known for being "a stickler for the rules and for discipline." Church leadership Jeffs became principal in 1976, the year he turned 21. Warren grew up outside of Salt Lake City, Utah, and for more than twenty years served as the principal of Alta Academy, an FLDS private school at the mouth of Little Cottonwood Canyon. Former church members claim that Warren himself has 87 wives. Rulon Jeffs became the President of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS Church) in 1986 and had nineteen or twenty wives and approximately 60 children. Warren was born more than two months prematurely in Sacramento, California. Warren Steed Jeffs was born on December 3, 1955, to Rulon Jeffs (1909–2002) and Merilyn Steed (born circa 1935). 3 Sex crimes allegations and FBI's Most Wanted.
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Jeffs was extradited to Texas, where he was found guilty of sexual assault of a minor, for raping a 15-year-old he had married and aggravated sexual assault against a child, for raping a 12-year-old he had married for which he was sentenced to life in prison, plus twenty years and fined $10,000. This conviction was overturned by the Utah Supreme Court in 2010 due to flawed jury instructions. In September 2007, Jeffs was convicted of two counts of rape as an accomplice, for which he was sentenced to imprisonment for ten years to life in Utah State Prison. In 2007, Arizona charged him with eight additional counts in two separate cases, including incest and sexual conduct with minors. In 2006, Jeffs was placed on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted List for his flight from the charges that he had arranged illegal marriages between his adult male followers and underage girls in Utah. In 2011, he was convicted of two felony counts of child sexual assault, for which he is serving a life sentence plus twenty years.
He is the ex-president of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS Church), a polygamous denomination of the Latter Day Saint movement. Warren Steed Jeffs (born December 3, 1955) is a convicted child rapist.
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