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FBI: Polygamous leader had 20 wives, many of them minors (access required)

The leader of a small polygamous group near the Arizona-Utah border had taken at least 20 wives, most of them minors, and punished followers who did not treat him as a prophet, newly filed federal court documents allege.

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