Jeffs daughter demands a new attorney - KSL-TV

A adolescent girl of captive polygamist leader Robert Penn Warren Jeffs have created a legal snarl in Lone-Star State by demanding a new attorney.

KSL have obtained e-mails she wrote denouncing the lawyer for portraying her as a victim of sexual abuse. Sixteen-year-old Teresa Jeffs have been subpoenaed to attest before a expansive jury in a investigation of sexual activity maltreatment on the YFZ Ranch. But her conflict with her ain lawyer proposes the prosecution will have got a tough clip using her as a witness.

Teresa Jeffs was one of 450 children taken from FLDS (the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Of Nazareth Jesus of Latter Day Saints) parents and then ordered returned by the Lone-Star State Supreme Court.

But Teresa's ain court-appointed attorney asked she be treated differently, obtaining tribunal orders to maintain the miss away from the spread and from respective FLDS men, including her ain father.

FLDS spokesman Perch Charlie Parker said, "The lawyer have accused her client of concealment a baby. It's all untrue, and this miss necessitates a new lawyer."

But her lawyer claims FLDS adults, including spokesman Willie Jessop, are manipulating and daunting the teenager.

In an e-mail Friday, Mother Teresa told her lawyer to border out. "Shut your oral cavity up and discontinue calling me a victim of sexual abuse," she wrote. "I am so ill of being called that when I am absolutely not a victim of sexual abuse."

In a 2nd e-mail Saturday she wrote, "Right now, in my eyes, to me you experience like an enemy to me."

Parker says, "I believe that what necessitates to go on is that the justice necessitates to sit down down and hear what Mother Teresa have to state herself."

That volition likely go on tomorrow. Judge Barbara Walther will throw a hearing in San Angelo on whether the lawyer should acquire the heave-ho. Meanwhile, a expansive jury in El Dorado is expected to get taking testimony for possible criminal lawsuits later this week.

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