Editing Warren Jeffs (section)

==Early life==
Warren Steed Jeffs was born in [[Sacramento, California]] on December 3, 1955, to [[Rulon Jeffs]] and Merilyn Steed. Warren was [[Preterm birth|born more than two months prematurely]]<ref name="Biography">{{cite web |title=Warren Jeffs |url=https://www.biography.com/crime-figure/warren-jeffs |publisher=[[The Biography Channel]] |access-date=May 17, 2019 |language=en-us |date=April 2, 2014}}</ref>,  and grew up outside of [[Salt Lake City, Utah]]. In 1976, the year he turned 21, Warren Jeffs became principal of Alta Academy, an FLDS private school at the mouth of [[Little Cottonwood Canyon]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Carlisle |first1=Nate |date=September 4, 2014 |title=Demolition starts on old FLDS polygamous school |url=https://archive.sltrib.com/article.php?id=58340109&itype=cmsid |access-date=May 17, 2019 |work=[[The Salt Lake Tribune]]}}</ref> He served as school principal for twenty years and was known for being "a [[wikt:stickler|stickler]] for the rules and for discipline."<ref name="Biography" /> Warren's father Rulon Jeffs became the [[President of the Church|President]] of the [[Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints]] (FLDS Church) in 1986 and had nineteen or twenty wives and approximately 60 children.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Janofsky |first1=Michael |date=September 15, 2002 |title=Mormon Leader Is Survived by 33 Sons and a Void |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/15/us/mormon-leader-is-survived-by-33-sons-and-a-void.html |access-date=May 7, 2019 |work=[[The New York Times]]}}</ref> Warren went on to have, according to former church members, 78 wives.<ref name="Egan">{{cite news |author=Egan, Timothy |date=October 25, 2005 |title=Polygamous Community Defies State Crackdown |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/25/us/polygamous-community-defies-state-crackdown.html |access-date=August 30, 2020 |work=[[The New York Times]] |quote=Mr. Jeffs, age 45, has as many as 70 wives, people who have left the church say. He teaches that a man cannot get to heaven unless he has at least three wives. And because there are not enough women to meet the demands of men who want eternal life, brides are constantly being reassigned.}}</ref>