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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- A book from the former teenage bride whose court testimony helped send polygamous sect leader Warren Jeffs to prison will be made into a movie.
Publisher HarperCollins publicist Brianne Halverson says "Stolen Innocence," will be jointly produced by Sharp Independent and Killer Films. Halverson says no production date is scheduled and no writer, director or actors have been selected.
The book chronicles the life of Elissa Wall, now a 21-year-old former member of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Her 2001 forced marriage to a cousin when she was 14 led to the criminal charges against Jeffs in St. George.
Last year, Jeffs was convicted on two counts of first-degree felony rape as an accomplice and sentenced to two terms of five years to life in prison.
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