A lawyer for a teen member of a polygamist sect has accused a sect leader of harassing and intimidating them both in a request for a restraining order filed Friday.
Natalie Malonis filed the request for the restraining order against Willie Jessop in District Court in San Angelo, Texas. She is an attorney ad litem on behalf of the 16-year-old girl, who has been named in court documents as the daughter Warren Jeffs, the imprisoned "prophet" of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
In the documents, Malonis suggested that Jessop may be trying to prevent the girl's testimony before a grand jury.
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