Warren Jeffs Convicted of Being an Accomplice to Rape

Jurors accepted the prosecutions theory that Jeffs advice to the 14 year old church member to obey her husband and submit to his requests amounted to accomplice behavior.

The accuser, Elissa Wall testified that Jeffs told her she must marry her 19 year old first cousin, Allen Steed whom she disliked. To defy Jeffs meant darkness and virtual excommunication from the church.

A few weeks later according to her account, Steed said it was time “to be a wife and do your duty.”

After they consummated the marriage he fell asleep, she swallowed two bottles of pain pills.

On Wednesday, prosecutors filed rape charges against Steed a day after Jeffs’ conviction.