Polygamist Leader Convicted
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ST. GEORGE, Utah — The leader of a Mormon splinter group was convicted yesterday of being an accomplice to rape for forcing a 14-year-old girl to marry her 19-year-old cousin. Warren Jeffs, 51, could get life in prison. Up to 10,000 of Jeffs’s followers practice plural marriage and revere him as a prophet.