Polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs hospitalized in Texas

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SAN ANTONIO — Polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs, who is serving a life sentence for two counts of aggravated sexual assault of a child, has been hospitalized in Galveston, Texas prison officials said.

Jeffs, 58, was sent to the hospital March 11 for an unspecified condition that is not life-threatening, said Robert Hurst, a spokesman for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.

Hurst refused to go into details of Jeffs condition because of medical privacy laws.

Jeffs, the leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, was convicted in 2011 for sexual assaulting two of his child brides. Jeffs had two dozen underage wives, prosecutors said, and provided DNA at his trial that showed he fathered a child to one of the girls, aged 15. The other victim was 12-years-old.

He is housed in the Powledge Unit in Palestine, Texas, and is eligible for parole in 2038.

Jeffs was placed on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted List in 2006 and has been arrested or charged in Nevada, Utah, Arizona and Texas.

After his 10-year sentence was overturned by the Utah Supreme Court in 2010, he was extradited to Texas where he faced charges for sexual assault of children stemming from a police raid at a West Texas ranch occupied by the FLDS.

This report contains material from The Associated Press.

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