Two weeks after the judge signed the release order, by means heavenly or earthly, Lyle Jeffs was gone.South Carolina Arrest Records and Warrant Search District Judge Ted Stewart granted Lyle Jeffs supervised release June 9, over the objections of federal prosecutors, who warned that safe houses and a stream of FLDS cash made Lyle Jeffs a flight risk.

“This pretty much cuts the head off the snake.” “If they are finally going to prosecute Lyle Jeffs and the leaders of the church, it will eventually bring the church down,” Wallace Jeffs, a half-brother of Warren Jeffs who was expelled from FLDS, told the Salt Lake Tribune. The resulting vacuum of leadership could cause the church to implode, a former member said. Lyle Jeffs and 10 other FLDS members were arrested in February after being accused of diverting $12 million in federal benefits, according to the Associated Press. At the north end of the FLDS community, there’s a bunker-like network of tunnels 100 yards deep, designed to protect the church in case of a government raid. Most forms of entertainment are banned, and FLDS children are educated in home schools that have Warren Jeffs’ face on the textbooks, wrote ABC News. “They also never cut their hair because, according to their teachings, they will need it in heaven to wash men’s feet as an anointing.” Rick Bowmer / Associated Press Women followers of FLDS are often seen wearing prairie dresses to “cover their bodies from neck to ankles because their bodies are considered sacred temples that can’t be exposed,” according to ABC News. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. In her book “Stolen Innocence,” former FLDS child bride Elissa Wall recounts that Jeffs taught everyone that “nonwhite people were the most evil of all outsiders.” ‘A huge blow’: Polygamous sect leaders arrested over Utah food stamp fraud, money launderingĪs Melissa Etehad wrote in The Post, the FLDS “came under national scrutiny when the church’s self-described ‘prophet,’ Lyle Jeffs’ brother Warren Jeffs, was sentenced to life in prison in 2011 for raping a child.”įLDS teaches that the biblical character Cain “was cursed with a black skin and he is the father of the Negro people,” according to the SPLC, and that homosexuality is “the worst evil act you can do, next to murder.” Whether he was taken and secreted against his will, or whether he experienced the miracle of rapture is unknown to counsel.Indicted Utah sect leader may have lubricated and removed ankle monitor with olive oil to escape the FBI.

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