Teen bride’s ex out on bail in rape case
From Times Wire Reports
A man charged with rape in an arranged marriage to his 14-year-old cousin was released on $5,000 bail, authorities said in Salt Lake City.
Allen Steed, 26, is charged with raping the girl during their marriage, which was arranged in 2001 by leaders of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Steed was charged last week, a day after a jury convicted church leader Warren Jeffs on two counts of rape as an accomplice for his role in overseeing the union.
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