An Associated Press wire report, published 3 August 2011 via Deseret News, on evidence presented as the prosecution rested its case at Warren Jeffs' Texas trial: an audio recording made 7 August 2006 of Jeffs with a girl who had turned 12 exactly 33 days earlier, whom FLDS records show he had taken as a wife in July 2006, and forensic DNA evidence that Jeffs fathered a child with a second girl, conceived such that the child was born in October 2005 when she was 15.
Facts
Assessment
Reliability Tier2
Tier 2: an Associated Press wire report on courtroom proceedings, syndicated via Deseret News, independent news reporting rather than the trial transcript itself. NotesRead directly, 22 August 2026. Wire-service reporting on evidence entered at an already-adjudicated criminal trial (the conviction itself is sourced to the DPS statement and the appellate opinion above), used only for the two victims' ages and the abuse-period years, the same convention the existing Baruch Lanner entity already uses for a wire-service report on adjudicated facts.
Citation
PublisherAssociated Press, via Deseret News
Publication Year2011
URLhttps://www.deseret.com/2011/8/3/20386120/prosecutors-rest-in-warren-jeffs-trial-after-playing-tape-of-alleged-assault-with-12-year-old/
Source Typenews
Sources
Claims Backed By This Source (10 claims)
This source backs 10 claims across the atlas. As facts: 9 well-attested. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
Disposition By Topic
- Sources, 6 claims: 6 well-attested.
- Abuse Inquiries and Response Policies, 4 claims: 3 well-attested, 1 general references.
Well-attested
9Abuse Inquiries and Response Policies
General References
1Abuse Inquiries and Response Policies
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