FLDS man sentenced to 10 years for sex assault
ELDORADO, Texas — Convicted sex offender Raymond Merril Jessop smiled Tuesday on the way to the Schleicher County Jail from a makeshift courtroom where he'd just been sentenced to 10 years in prison.
"I am at peace. I'll say that," the 38-year-old polygamist sect member said in the early evening darkness.
Jurors took about six hours before handing down the sentence of 10 years in prison and an $8,000 fine. The second-degree felony of child sexual assault is punishable by two to 20 years in prison and a fine of as much as $10,000.
Jessop's conviction of sexually assaulting a 16-year-old girl in November 2004 at the Yearning for Zion Ranch and the punishment determined by a seven-man, five-woman jury mark a victory for prosecutors in the first of what may be many trials springing from the April 2008 raid on the ranch.
To read the full report, please visit www.gosanangelo.com/news/2009/nov/10/jessop-sentenced-to-10-years.
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Justice, not quite | Nov. 11, 2009 at 3:44 p.m.
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Herman Sherman | Nov. 10, 2009 at 8:25 p.m.
I look forward to the next 11 trials.
Thank you, Texas | Nov. 10, 2009 at 7:18 p.m.
Raymond Jessop, right, is escorted to the Schleicher County jail by Sgt. Roger Looka, a Texas Department of Public Safety trooper, after Jessop was found guilty Thursday in Eldorado, Texas.
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