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ELDORADO, Texas, Dec. 18 (UPI) -- A jury in Schleicher County, Texas, said polygamist Allan Eugene Keate will spend 33 years in prison for sexually assaulting a child.
The San Angelo (Texas) Standard-Times said the jury's sentence on Thursday came after the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints member was convicted of assaulting a 15-year-old girl he claimed as his bride.
State prosecutor Angela Goodwin said during Keate's trial that Keate, 57, and his teenage victim appeared before FLDS prophet Warren Jeffs and the victim was told to remain close with Keate.
"She offered up just a little bit of resistance, and that was squashed," Goodwin said of the victim, whose identity was not released. Keate also fathered a child with the teenage girl.
The Standard-Times said defense attorney Randy Wilson attempted to portray his client's actions as those of a man whose religious beliefs allowed him to have multiple wives in service of God.
"Does this sound like a pedophile, or does it sound like a man devoted to God," Wilson asked the jury during the trial.
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