{"id":432234,"date":"2010-03-15T23:35:41","date_gmt":"2010-03-16T03:35:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/?p=8086"},"modified":"2010-03-15T23:35:41","modified_gmt":"2010-03-16T03:35:41","slug":"genealogy-record-books-used-as-evidence-at-jessop-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/432234","title":{"rendered":"Genealogy Record Books Used as Evidence at Jessop Trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gosanangelo.com\/news\/2010\/mar\/15\/prosecutors-offer-forensic-support-of-photos-to\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.genealogyblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/book-of-remembrance.jpg\" alt=\"Book of Remembrance\" title=\"Book of Remembrance\" width=\"250\" height=\"140\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8088\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>SAN ANGELO, Texas<\/strong> \u2014 Jurors leaned in to peer at sacred forms in the case of Merril Leroy Jessop.<\/p>\n<p>Jessop, 35, a member of a polygamous sect, is on trial, charged with sexual assault of a child in connection with allegations he illegally married an underage girl.<\/p>\n<p>Rebecca Musser, a former member of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fundamentalist_Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter_Day_Saints\">Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints<\/a>, testified to a dozen of those forms being family records, birth records, marriage records and priesthood records, all of them with special spiritual significance to the FLDS, she said.<\/p>\n<p>She was shown a collection of such forms bound in a cover and called, \u201cThe Book of Remembrance.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gosanangelo.com\/news\/2010\/mar\/15\/prosecutors-offer-forensic-support-of-photos-to\/\">Read the full article<\/a> in the March 15, 2010 edition of the GoSanAngelo.com website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SAN ANGELO, Texas \u2014 Jurors leaned in to peer at sacred forms in the case of Merril Leroy Jessop. Jessop, 35, a member of a polygamous sect, is on trial, charged with sexual assault of a child in connection with allegations he illegally married an underage girl. Rebecca Musser, a former member of the Fundamentalist [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5171,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-432234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5171"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}