{"id":651738,"date":"2017-09-06T11:48:14","date_gmt":"2017-09-06T16:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=651738"},"modified":"2017-09-07T11:48:58","modified_gmt":"2017-09-07T16:48:58","slug":"ex-teen-bride-wins-16-million-case-against-polygamous-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=651738","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Teen Bride Wins $16 Million Case against Polygamous Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2017\/09\/warren_jeffs_1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-651739\" \/>SALT LAKE CITY (AP) &#8211; 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&#8217;s testimony helped convict Jeffs in Utah, though the verdict was overturned on a technicality and he&#8217;s now imprisoned at the Louis C. Powledge Unit near Palestine, Texas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SALT LAKE CITY (AP) &#8211; 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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=651738\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ex-Teen Bride Wins $16 Million Case against Polygamous Group<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":651739,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-651738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-13 07:01:52","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=651738"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":651740,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651738\/revisions\/651740"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/651739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=651738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=651738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=651738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}