ELDORADO, Texas - A grand jury on Tuesday indicted polygamist leader Warren Jeffs and five other members of a sect raided in April. Jeffs is accused of sexual assault. The charges and identities of the others were being withheld until authorities can arrest them, said Schleicher County Clerk Peggy Williams. One indictment is a misdemeanor; the others are felonies. The criminal charges came during the panel's second meeting on the case and followed the ill-fated child custody case in which more than 400 children were placed in foster care. The Texas Supreme Court ruled child welfare authorities had overstepped in taking all the children from their parents even though many were infants and toddlers. Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints leaders have consistently denied there was any abuse at the ranch and...
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