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	Colorado City Polygamist to Be Sentenced April 20 By Jim Seckler Daily News April 5, 2007 http://www.mohavedailynews.com/articles/2007/04/06/news/local/local6.txt Kingman — A Superior Court judge will soon sentence one of three remaining Colorado City polygamists charged with having sex with underage girls. Vergel Bryce Jessop, 47, will be sentenced April 20. He pleaded no contest Dec. 18 to an undesignated charge of child abuse. He had been charged with sexual conduct with a minor and conspiracy to commit sexual conduct with a minor. His sentencing has been postponed several times. Under the plea agreement, Judge Steven Conn will sentence Jessop to three years supervised probation and no additional jail time. Conn will also decide whether Jessop must register as a sex offender. The trial for Dale Evans Barlow, 49, will now begin Wednesday after a one-day delay. He is charged with one count of sexual conduct with a minor and one count of conspiracy to commit sexual conduct with a minor. Rodney Holm's jury trial is now also set to begin April 17. Holm, 40, a former Colorado City police officer, is charged with three counts of sexual conduct with a minor. Barlow, Jessop, Holm and five other codefendants belong to a polygamist sect known as the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Most sect members reside in Colorado City, a small town in northern Mohave County, or in its twin city, Hildale, Utah, across the state line in Washington County, Utah. Charges against Randolph J. Barlow were dismissed in February when the victim refused to testify against him. Barlow, 33, was charged with two counts of sexual conduct with a minor. David Romaine Bateman, 50, was convicted in October of sexual conduct with a minor and conspiracy to commit sexual conduct with a minor. He was sentenced to nine months in state prison and must register as a sex offender. Kelly Fischer, 39, was convicted in July of sexual conduct with a minor and conspiracy to commit sexual conduct with a minor. He was sentenced to 45 days in county jail and probation. In September, a Mohave County jury acquitted Donald Robert Barlow, 50, of one count of sexual conduct with a minor. Charges against Terry Darger Barlow, 25, were dropped in October. He was charged with one count of sexual conduct with a minor and conspiracy to commit sexual conduct with a minor. The sect's leader, Warren Jeffs, 51, currently faces rape charges in Utah. He is also charged in Mohave County with three counts of sexual conduct with a minor.
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