Polygamist sect leader Jeffs jailed

A former polygamist bishop convicted of marrying US sect leader Warren Jeffs to a 12-year-old girl has been sentenced to 10 years in prison.

Fredrick Merril Jessop received the maximum sentence from a West Texas jury.

The 75-year-old was found guilty of performing an illegal wedding ceremony in 2006 between Jeffs and his under-age bride at the Yearning for Zion Ranch, owned by the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

Much of the evidence showed to jurors was the same that prosecutors used to convict Jeffs in August on child sex charges. Jeffs is serving a life sentence.