Polygamist gets 33 years on sex charges

[The Straight Story]

Polygamist gets 33 years on sex charges


ELDORADO, Texas, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- A jury in Schleicher County, Texas, said polygamist Allan Eugene Keate will spend 33 years in prison for sexually assaulting a child.

The San Angelo (Texas) Standard-Times said the jury's sentence on Thursday came after the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints member was convicted of assaulting a 15-year-old girl he claimed as his bride.

State prosecutor Angela Goodwin said during Keate's trial that Keate, 57, and his teenage victim appeared before FLDS prophet Warren Jeffs and the victim was told to remain close with Keate.

"She offered up just a little bit of resistance, and that was squashed," Goodwin said of the victim, whose identity was not released. Keate also fathered a child with the teenage girl.

The Standard-Times said defense attorney Randy Wilson attempted to portray his client's actions as those of a man whose religious beliefs allowed him to have multiple wives in service of God.

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2009/12/18/Polygamist-gets-33-years-on-sex-charges/UPI-25091261162156/

[dembotoz]

1. 33 years??? is that all?????

I wish i could pick out his cell mate....

[Posteritatis]

2. Considering he'll be 90 in 33 years, I doubt he's getting out. (nt)

[dembotoz]

3. don't know if i want to take the chance

I am not for capital punishment and i believe in rehab and all
but this clown needs to be in a zoo

[Tailormyst]

4. With viagra at 90 he could impregnate a few more 12 year old "brides"

Hopefully he won't live to be 90 and the next 33 years will be a living hell.

[Echo In Light]

5. "...multiple wives in service of God."

:wtf:

[Nye Bevan]

6. Better headline would be "Child Rapist gets 33 years"

The existing headline makes it sound like he's getting 33 years for polygamy. This guy's problem is that he never won an Oscar, so he doesn't have 90% of Hollywood calling for his release, unlike some Qaalude-plying anal child rapists I *could* name.

[paulsby]

7. thank you for mentioning that

he was doing a 15 yr old. polanski? a 13 yr old. i agree this guy should go to jail, but not for polygamy (which i think should be legal) but for Child Rape, which is of course why he is getting the 33 yrs

interestingly, when i lived in hawaii, the age of consent was 14. so, he wouldn't even be doing child rape, unless he did it forcibly, which it sounds might be the case (coercion etc.)

[walldude]

8. So where is the trial for "Prophet Warren Jeffs"?

A church official who used his position to convince a 15 year old that she had to stay with a 57 year old man? Jail. And where the hell are her parents? Did they let this happen? Fuck man I swear religion has become a sickness.