Published accounts describe Warren Jeffs as succeeding his father, Rulon T. Jeffs, after Rulon’s death on 8 September 2002, as the presiding figure in the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.1

News reports of the last years of Fred M. Jessop place those years in the period after that succession, and they differ on what happened: some relatives said Jessop had been sent away; an attorney for the church disputed that he had been “kicked out.”2

In 2011, a Texas court convicted Jeffs on two counts of child sexual assault, and he was sentenced to life in prison.3 Those are facts of the public record.

The 1998 restatement of the United Effort Plan recites that Warren S. Jeffs became a trustee on 11 April 1998, and he signed that restatement.