Trial Under Way for Polygamist Sect Leader

NPR | By Wade Goodwyn

Published September 14, 2007 at 1:00 PM EDT

The trial of polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs began this week in southern Utah. Jeffs is charged with being an accomplice to rape after arranging a marriage between a 14-year-old girl and her 19-year-old cousin.

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