Brother of FLDS Leader Gets Lenient Sentence

On Friday, Seth Steed Jeffs, younger brother of Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints head Warren Jeffs, was placed on three years’ probation and fined $2,500 for helping fugitive Warren Jeffs evade capture. Today’s Salt Lake Tribune reports on the sentencing. Warren Jeffs is wanted on various charges growing out of the polygamous practices of the FLDS Church. Seth Jeffs could have received a much harsher sentence for harboring a federal fugitive. However, federal judge Robert Blackburn said he found Seth Jeffs "credibly contrite", and said he would not visit the sins of his fugitive brother on him. While Seth Jeffs has promised to distance himself from the FLDS, he still has one legal wife and one “plural” wife that he married in a religious ceremony.