Polygamist leader gets life in prison for sex assault

SAN ANGELO, Texas, (Reuters) – A Texas jury today  sentenced polygamist leader Warren Jeffs to life in prison plus  20 years for sexually assaulting two girls he claimed as  “spiritual” brides.
The 55-year-old leader of a Mormon breakaway sect was  convicted there last week of sexual assault on a child and  aggravated sexual assault on a child in connection with  “marriages” to a 12-year-old girl and a 14-year-old girl.
Jeffs is the self-proclaimed “prophet” of the  Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints, which has a ranch  in west Texas and believes polygamy is the path to Heaven.