FLDS leader Warren Jeffs and four of his followers were indicted Tuesday by the Schleicher County grand jury on sexual assault charges. Jeffs is accused of sexually assaulting a girl under 17 in January 2005. One of the indicted men was also charged with first-degree felony bigamy. A sixth man was indicted on three counts of misdemeanor failure to report child abuse.

Jeffs is currently in a Kingman, Ariz., jail awaiting trial on charges of sexual misconduct as an accomplice, accused of performing underage marriages. In an e-mail to the Deseret News, Mohave County Attorney Matt Smith declined to comment on the Texas indictment.

"I have to be careful about generating any prejudicial publicity against Mr. Jeffs since he is currently awaiting trial in our jurisdiction," he wrote. "The indictment does not affect Arizona's case at all, as Texas is obviously a different jurisdiction."

Texas authorities have said they will seek to have Jeffs extradited to the Lone Star State as soon as possible.

In Utah, Jeffs was convicted last year of rape as an accomplice for performing a marriage between a 14-year-old girl and her 19-year-old cousin. Jeffs was sentenced to a pair of five-to-life terms in prison.

While the Schleicher County grand jury was meeting, San Antonio attorney Alan Futrell filed a motion once again seeking the removal of court-appointed ad litem Natalie Malonis as Teresa Jeffs' attorney.

Jeffs, a daughter of Warren Jeffs, has been in a public squabble with Malonis, accusing her of not obeying her wishes. Jeffs, 16, has gone public insisting she is not a sex-abuse victim, but court documents indicate she was married to a 34-year-old man a day after her 15th birthday.

Malonis believes others are telling the young girl what to say. In fact, Malonis said if she felt like Teresa was speaking for herself and making up her own mind, she would step down as her attorney.

"If I felt like I had a legitimate request from her making up her own mind ... I would (remove myself)," she said. "But I don't think that's the case."

As for the latest motion by Futrell, a judge had not signed it yet, meaning she had not officially recognized the motion. Malonis said she wouldn't be surprised if Walther took no action on the motion at all.

The new motion talks about Malonis' "personal behavior in the recent past" that has brought into question her "judgment, lifestyle and her ability to cope with responsibilities and obligations."

"It appears that those issues presented in the year 2000 and continued into this calender year," according to the motion, which did not go into any detail about what in her personal lifestyle could give rise to criticism.