First, a chunk from this week's Last Days:

FRIDAY, JULY 29 Nothing happened today, unless you count the trial of Warren Jeffs, leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, the Mormon splinter group that practices polygamy and, if the charges against Jeffs are true, child rape. During today's court proceedings in San Angelo, Texas, defendant Jeffs—who is serving as his own lawyer against two counts of sexual assault of a child—addressed the court in the voice of God: "I, the Lord God of heaven, ask the courts to cease the prosecution of my holy ways," said Jeffs. "There will be a judgment against all those who prosecute the church. I will bring sickness and death. Let this cease." Following Jeffs's one-man God show, CNN reports, Judge Barbara Walther warned Jeffs that if he again called for "the jury's destruction," he would be removed from the courtroom. On Monday, Jeffs will file a motion on behalf of God seeking the removal of Judge Walther from the case. The fun continues.

Now, an update on the trial published yesterday by ABC News (bolds mine):

In an audio tape played today at the trial of polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs, jurors heard the religious leader allegedly having sex with a 12-year-old girl and telling her to feel "the spirit of God."

Prosecutors later played another clip of a different "training session" involving 12 girls, but Jeffs stood up and loudly spoke over the tape, talking about how a holy trust was being broken. The judge and jurors were wearing headphones to listen to the tape, and ignored Jeffs' rambling. On the tape, they heard Jeffs telling the girls "you have to know how to excite sexually and be excited," and telling the girls to shower and wear white robes when they come to him, as well as telling them to shave their pubic hair. He concluded by singing the prayer "Father, Son and Holy Ghost."

So far, Jeffs entire defense seems to be based on the idea that these "sacred rituals" are beyond the reach of law in a country with alleged religious freedom. Good luck with that, you sick fuck.