they all said, yes. the alternative after all was nation. now besides, as becky developed into a smart and beautiful young woman, her prospects were extremely good. especially because of the particular person who expressed his interest, as everyone told her. you will be blessed, you will have your salvation major. because, rebecca s has been to be, was the profit himself now, the by then 85-year-old rulon jeffs. now coming up. i remember walking in and feeling like just stand up and your duty. though becky has grown grown up in the flds, she has no idea what s in store. how can a man of 85 with 19 wives, perform the functions of a husband. even though he couldn t, he
those shackles breaking away. reporter: arranged marriages. underage brides. religious freedom. all on trial. but it was also the first time that someone inside the flds would speak out publically in a criminal case against the prophet. a grainy courtroom camera rolled as the prosecution presented its case against warren jeffs, alleging he enticed 14-year-old elissa into marriage and insisted she obey her husband and his sexual demands. that man performed a ceremony and told her to multiply and replenish the earth. that s why the defendant is an accomplice to rape. reporter: but the defense team insisted that what happened between elissa and her husband was her husband s doing, not warren jeffs. the prophet had only offered advice, they said, on improving the marriage.
the crick once flds ground zero, back in 2013 as we finished taping and were preparing to leave, suddenly, we were surrounded by a posse of teens on horseback. they responded to the greetings with blank stares. you want to call the sheriffs now? these are the children taken from their parents, said rebecca s old school friend. they were just following church orders to harass the media. but that was then. now, said andrew, the crick is ground zero no more. the majority of the flds, about 90%, are not in short crick anymore. reporter: court rulings wrested the control of the town away from the church and warren jeffs and the devout just left. they have been told not to cooperate with the courts, and they would rather walk away from
reporter: warren jeffs was about to make history. for the first time ever, a prophet of the flds, a man who spoke to god, was about to go on trial. and what made it all the more dramatic, the case was a direct assault on the prophet s religious practice. warren jeffs was facing two felony counts of rape as an accomplice of elissa wall, rebecca s sister. the most important thing to me was that the real truth of what was happening got out. reporter: elissa prepared to testify that warren jeffs ordered her to marry at 14 and then ignored her pleas for help when she was sexually abused by her husband. walking into the courtroom and seeing warren there, i remember looking at him and our eyes locking in an unbreakable death stare and holding my ground facing him and not looking down. but to hold his gaze was like
all but one. the 12-year-old from the audio tape, whose mother died after the raid. but leave the church? oh no. the last time we spoke to rebecca, she told us the girl, now a woman, still considers herself a wife of the prophet and is thought to be living in an flds compound somewhere in the u.s. the state of texas seized the ranch and sold it. this former religious commune was transformed into a miitary and law enforcement training base, of all things. a few years later we received a tip of the public of someone matching his description. reporter: warren s brother and second in command lyle jeffs was arrested. after slipping out of his ankle monitor while awaiting trial on food stamp fraud. he was convicted, sentenced to just under five years. and short crick?