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	FLDS Leader Warren Jeffs Being Force-fed; Death May Be Imminent By Kirk Yuhnke, Reporter and David Wells Fox 13 August 4, 2009 http://www.fox13now.com/news/kstu-flds-leader-warren-jeffs-being-force-fed,0,6712678.story MOHAVE COUNTY, Ariz. - New court documents out of Arizona say FLDS church president Warren Jeffs' death might be imminent. Arizona officials say Jeffs is being force fed in an effort to save the life of the polygamous sect leader. In a letter written Friday and filed with the court in Mohave County Monday, Doctor Mortenson writes Jeffs "has been unable to urinate for us. He is weaker and more debilitated than when I saw him two days ago. His vital signs are worse." Mortenson went on to write "this deterioration will continue to accelerate and become harder to reverse the longer it persists. His death could be imminent without immediate medical intervention." According to the letter, Jeffs refuses to eat. Force feeding and urine monitoring were put in place Friday morning for Jeffs, who is the leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in southern Utah and Arizona. Jeffs is being held in the Mohave County jail in Kingman, Ariz. Based on charges that he married an underage girl and an adult man. The sheriff's office to confirm whether or not Jeffs was sent to a hospital for the force feeding and urine monitoring treatments, but court documents indicate he's being treated at the jail. Jeffs has been in the Mohave County jail since February 26, 2008.
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