FLDS TRIAL: 99 percent chance Jessop fathered child, experts say
Girl said to be 15 at time of alleged sex assault
By Matthew Waller, San Angelo Standard Times
Posted March 10, 2010 at 9:46 a.m.
SAN ANGELO, Texas — Two DNA forensic analysts Wednesday told jurors there is a 99 percent chance Merril Leroy Jessop is the father of a child whose mother he allegedly married when she was underage.
Jessop, 35, a member of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints from the Yearning for Zion Ranch in Schleicher County, is on trial for sexual assault of a child in connection with the alleged marriage.
Christina Capt, one of the analysts, put on white rubber gloves, opened a Styrofoam box and lifted out of it an envelope. She showed it to the jury and said it contained a small tube of Jessop’s blood.
Capt later showed jurors different points on a chart filled with numbers and the names of the mother and child in question as well as Jessop.
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