Family: Warren Jeffs is in a coma
DALLAS (AP) — A Texas prison official says polygamist leader Warren Jeffs has been hospitalized after not eating or drinking enough since his recent conviction on child sexual assault charges.
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Michelle Lyons with the Texas Department of Criminal Justice told The Associated Press on Monday that the head of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is in critical but stable condition.
A family source tells ABC News that Jeffs is in a coma and may not survive.
Jeffs attorney Emily Detoto told the AP that Jeffs was taken Sunday night to East Texas Medical Center in Tyler. She says he "hasn't been feeling well" but wouldn't elaborate.
The 55-year-old was convicted earlier this month on charges that he sexually assaulted underage followers he took as spiritual brides.
Jeffs has been housed at the Powledge Unit outside Palestine, about 100 miles southeast of Dallas.
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