Elissa Wall can seek court payout from polygamous group’s property trustHer testimony helped convict Jeffs in 2007 of being accomplice to her rapeThe Utah supreme court cleared the way for a woman to sue for millions of dollars in damages after she said polygamous leader Warren Jeffs forced her to marry her cousin when she was 14.
Elissa Wall can seek the payout from the sect’s communal property trust,which is now controlled by the state, the tall court decided Wednesday. Her testimony helped convict Jeffs in 2007 of being an accomplice to her rape, or though the verdict was later overturned on a technicality.
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Source: theguardian.com