Polygamist leader Warren Jeffs was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison for sexually assaulting two underage followers he took as child brides, the Associated Press reports.
The 55-year-old head of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints was convicted last Thursday.
The jury deliberated for less than 30 minutes before returning the maximum sentence on both counts. Earlier in the day, several jurors broke down in the courtroom while prosecutors played a recording of Jeffs instructing the girls on how to service him sexually and threatening God would “reject them” if they didn’t have sex with him, Fox News reports.
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