30 Nov 2012
The maids were asked to place a plastic sheet over the bed sheet to protect the sheets being tainted, a startling report published on Friday revealed.
On Wednesday prosecutors read out excerpts from thousands of pages of the diary as Texas state officials were making attempt to seize the 1, 700 acre ranch which is owned by the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.
The diary has also revealed that Jeff gave detailed instructions to his followers how they were to build a secret enclave in West of Texas because it is god’s will. The investigators found the ‘rape-bed” inside the multimillion limestone temple. The rape bed was disguised as an altar.
The jurors wept openly when the contents of the diary revealed how the children were restrained and molested by Jeff. The state of Texas has spent nearly $ 5 million to prosecute the molester who is behind the bars for the past six years on charges of molesting two under-aged children.
In 2008 police officials freed 438 children who were found inside the ranch.
According to media reports the diary offers day-to-day activities between 2002 and 2006. The events and details were meticulously penned in the event if the followers of the church are forced-driven from their base in Utah.
According to Jeffs’ writings, it was the Lord who sent him to the ranch in Eldorado.
‘Three times the Lord sent me here, not knowing where I was going, but naming the place,’ he wrote. ‘The second time, we drove right to this place and didn’t realize it was for sale, as the Lord said, “Go to Sonora and then Eldorado”. Sonora is south of here.
‘We need to keep this particular property so private and sacred and secret that not even the faithful who are driven will know of this place, because this is where the sacred records are.’
He would refer to the site as ‘R17′ because of its location 17 hours away from FLDS communities on the border between Utah and Arizona, known as Short Creek.
The attorney general’s office argued that the documents prove Jeffs deliberately chose the remote location to shield widespread child sexual abuse and money laundering from the scrutiny of law enforcement authorities.
More than a year after his conviction of child sex abuse, it appears that little has changed in the remote compound in Colorado City as Jeffs continues to decide where people live, whom they marry and even what they eat and how they dress.
Children of cult members receive little more than a grade school education where science and history are ignored in favor of religious studies with an emphasis on Jeffs’ proverbs, and where every school book must be personally approved by the leader.
One proverb reads: ‘When you disobey there must and will always be a punishment.’
Children in the local schoolhouse are also taught that Jeffs was the president of the United States and that God led Neil Armstrong away from the moon during the Apollo 11.
When questioned by an ABC reporter about their general level of knowledge, a trio of girls who escaped the cult several months earlier along with their mother said that they had never heard of Ronald Reagan, Santa Claus or AIDS.
‘The Lord teaches us that if we can dress properly, it is easier to see each other as a whole person inside and out.’
Women must never cut their hair because it is believed that they will need it to wash men’s feet in heaven.
They all live in polygamous marriages where each man has at least three sister wives.
The FLDS organization is protected by Utah’s homeschooling law, which means that state officials have no say about the content of the curriculum taught on the grounds of the secured compound.
In August 2011, Jeffs, 56, was found guilty of molesting two girls ages 12 and 15 whom he took as brides in ‘spiritual marriages’.
Eleven other FLDS men were charged with crimes including sexual assault and bigamy. So far, all seven, who have been prosecuted, have been convicted – receiving prison sentences of between six and 75 years.
Read More: Daily Mail
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