BREAKING NEWS: Five sect members jailed in Schleicher County
 
By Paul A. Anthony
San Angelo Standard-Times
Michael Emack

Michael Emack
 
Lloyd Barlow

Lloyd Barlow

Five indicted FLDS members have turned themselves in.

The men, sought since they were indicted Tuesday on a series of charges relating to alleged sexual abuse at the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints' Schleicher County ranch, turned themselves in to the Schleicher County Sheriff's Office about noon today, said Texas Ranger Capt. L.C. Wilson.

According to the Texas Attorney General's Office, the five men are:
  • Raymond Merril Jessop, 36, the alleged husband of a 16-year-old daughter of Warren Jeffs, is charged with one count of sexual assault of a child.
  • Allan Eugene Keate, 56, is charged with one count of sexual assault of a child.
  • Michael Gorge Emack, 57, is charged with one count of sexual assault of a child.
  • Merril Leroy Jessop, 33, is charged with one count of sexual assault of a child and bigamy.
  • Lloyd Hammond Barlow, 38, is charged with three counts of failure to report child abuse.
All the charges except failure to report child abuse - which is a misdemeanor - are first-degree felonies, punishable by up to life in prison.

The four men charged with felonies are held in lieu of bonds of $100,000, while Barlow's bond was set at $5,000.

Sect leader Warren Jeffs also was indicted on one count of sexual assault of a child, but he is already in jail, awaiting trial in Arizona.
 
gosanangelo.com
Originally published July 28, 2008
 
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