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Ex-FLDS leader set to be paroled from Texas prison
AP ^ | 5/2/2013

Posted on 05/02/2013 6:08:04 PM PDT by markomalley

A former top lieutenant to polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs who was sentenced last year to a decade in prison is scheduled to be released on parole next week, Texas prison officials said Thursday.

Wendell Loy Nielsen, the former president of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, was convicted in March 2012 on three counts of bigamy and given a 10-year prison term.

Nielsen and 11 other FLDS members were indicted after a 2008 police raid at the church's remote West Texas compound, known as the Yearning for Zion ranch. He was accused of marrying three women in 2005.

Nielsen became eligible for parole last month after having served a quarter of his sentence, said Texas prison system spokesman Jason Clark. This was calculated by adding the actual time he had served in jail with time received for good behavior and credit for working while in prison, Clark said.

The 72-year-old Nielsen is set to be released Wednesday from the Robertson Unit in Abilene. He served his sentence at the Terrell Unit in Rosharon, located south of Houston.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: flds; inmates; parole
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1 posted on 05/02/2013 6:08:04 PM PDT by markomalley
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To: markomalley

If Texas keeps letting pervs out like that they’ll soon be in bed with Vermont ~ they don’t keep ‘em locked up either.


2 posted on 05/02/2013 6:10:31 PM PDT by muawiyah
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To: markomalley

Shortest decade EVAH.


3 posted on 05/02/2013 6:10:58 PM PDT by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: markomalley
If homosexuals can so-called "marry," there's no reason one man couldn't marry more than one woman, or one woman more than one man.

Be careful what you go to court for!

4 posted on 05/02/2013 6:30:19 PM PDT by Standing Wolf
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To: Standing Wolf
If homosexuals can so-called "marry," there's no reason one man couldn't marry more than one woman, or one woman more than one man.

I think it may require a Constitutional amendment to do that, see Reynolds vs US.

I've read some opinions that this decision also defined marriage as between one man and one woman.

5 posted on 05/02/2013 6:33:49 PM PDT by Las Vegas Ron (Medicine is the keystone in the arch of socialism)
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To: markomalley

Does he get his harem back? Does he want them back?

6 posted on 05/02/2013 6:34:39 PM PDT by Zakeet (If idiots could fly, Washington would be an airport)
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To: Zakeet

Do they what HIM back?


7 posted on 05/02/2013 6:54:06 PM PDT by metmom (For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore & do not submit again to a yoke of slavery)
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To: metmom

Such lovelies...


8 posted on 05/02/2013 6:56:50 PM PDT by Utah Binger (Southern Utah where the world comes to see America)
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To: metmom
Do they want HIM back?

Absolutely ... providing these fillies want to become his goddess wives for time and all eternity ... watching him rule as a god over his own planet ... forever pregnant and continuously giving birth to his spirit babies.

Heaven as revealed by Joseph Smith ... what more could you women possibly want?

9 posted on 05/02/2013 7:03:39 PM PDT by Zakeet (If idiots could fly, Washington would be an airport)
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To: Zakeet
Absolutely ... providing these fillies want to become his goddess wives for time and all eternity ... watching him rule as a god over his own planet ... forever pregnant and continuously giving birth to his spirit babies.

Heaven as revealed by Joseph Smith ... what more could you women possibly want?

Only a man could think that being eternally pregnant would be heaven.

That alone would keep me from ever becoming a Mormon if I wasn't already a Christian.

Their brainwashing is complete, I see.

10 posted on 05/02/2013 7:09:02 PM PDT by metmom (For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore & do not submit again to a yoke of slavery)
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To: Utah Binger

A couple of the younger ones don’t look bad but the older ones look like they’ve been sucking lemons.


11 posted on 05/02/2013 7:09:46 PM PDT by metmom (For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore & do not submit again to a yoke of slavery)
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To: metmom
Only a man could think that being eternally pregnant would be heaven.

Only an idiot could think that living around and taking care of a bunch of crabby, uncomfortable eternally pregnant women would be heaven.

That alone would keep me from ever becoming a Mormon if I wasn't already a Christian.

12 posted on 05/02/2013 7:15:59 PM PDT by Zakeet (If idiots could fly, Washington would be an airport)
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To: metmom

I still havent figured out the color scheme thingy

are the ones in the same color all the sexs slaves of the one guy

or are they ranged by the same color for “1st wife”

the same color for “2nd wife” etc


13 posted on 05/02/2013 7:21:32 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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Man looks on the outside...


14 posted on 05/02/2013 7:36:19 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Tennessee Nana

Well; little lady; it’s like this: They get a nice, bright blue dress for their wedding day, and every time they have sex it gets washed.

Now the dye isn’t that good and tends to fade with each washing...


15 posted on 05/02/2013 7:39:05 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie

Oh well OK then...


16 posted on 05/02/2013 7:46:39 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: Standing Wolf

I’ve never understood why any guy would want more than one woman yammering at him at a time.


17 posted on 05/02/2013 8:45:04 PM PDT by Grams A (The Sun will rise in the East in the morning and God is still on his throne.)
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To: markomalley

Last I knew, inmates had to serve a third of their time. That was bad enough but now it’s a fourth? What was the point in all that expense of sending him to prison?


18 posted on 05/02/2013 9:06:48 PM PDT by bgill (The problem is...no one is watching the Watch List!)
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To: muawiyah
If Texas keeps letting pervs out like that they’ll soon be in bed with Vermont ~ they don’t keep ‘em locked up either.

Vermont is also one of only two states that allows their incarcerated felons to vote.

The other one is Maine.

19 posted on 05/03/2013 4:08:24 AM PDT by Graybeard58 (_.. ._. .. _. _._ __ ___ ._. . ___ ..._ ._ ._.. _ .. _. .)
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To: Tennessee Nana

I was wondering the same thing. There had to be something to the color scheme.


20 posted on 05/03/2013 4:56:25 AM PDT by metmom (For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore & do not submit again to a yoke of slavery)
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