SAN ANGELO, Texas (CNN) -- Texas authorities say they collected DNA swabs from jailed polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs in connection with a criminal investigation involving "spiritual marriages" to four girls ages 12 to 15.
The samples were taken Thursday in Arizona from Jeffs, the sect's jailed 52-year-old "prophet," said Jerry Strickland, spokesman for the Texas attorney general's office.
Jeffs is leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
The criminal investigation moved to the forefront Friday as a Texas judge refused to sign an order returning to their homes more than 300 children seized last month from the polygamist sect's ranch. Judge Barbara Walther said she wanted all the mothers involved to sign the order first.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/05/30/texas.polygamists/index.html?iref=newssearch
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booooo!
(funny though!)
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