This picture was introduced to the court on Friday showing FLDS leader Warren Jeffs cradling a 12-year-old girl in his arms and kissing her "how a husband would kiss a wife". Just 3 days ago, the 3rd Court of Appeals ruled that a trial judge did not have enough evidence to keep every child from the ranch.



In FLDS culture, a man can have physical contact with a female only if they are married. This does mean that in this picture, he was married to the 12-year-old girl.

Rod Parker, an FLDS spokesman, called the state's use of the photographs of Jeffs a "gratuitous publicity stunt by CPS which doesn't go to the issue at court, which is whether a baby is in immediate danger by what someone else did".