Ex-Teen Bride Wins $16 Million Case against Polygamous Group
Posted/updated on: September 7, 2017 at 11:48 am
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) – A judge is awarding $16 million in a lawsuit filed by a woman married to her cousin at age 14 in a ceremony overseen by polygamous sect leader Warren Jeffs (pictured). A lawyer for Elissa Wall said Wednesday the decision lets attorneys investigate bank accounts and property connected to the secretive group based along the Utah-Arizona border. Alan Mortensen says Wall plans to use the money to help people leaving the group, which also has a compound in South Dakota. Wall’s testimony helped convict Jeffs in Utah, though the verdict was overturned on a technicality and he’s now imprisoned at the Louis C. Powledge Unit near Palestine, Texas.
