- Horrific tape of Jeffs instructing child brides how to please him sexually played
- Tells them God will reject them if they refuse to have sex with them
- Comes after Jeffs' nephew told jurors he was abused by his uncle aged five
- Shocking pictures also showed Jeffs kissing two child brides
- Jeffs walked out of court in protest demanding to be set free after sentencing
- Psychologist tells court cult leader groomed children like a 'paedophile'
Softly telling five girls to 'set aside all your inhibitions', the convicted paedophile was heard giving the young girls detailed pointers during a graphic ten-minute tape played for the Texas jury.
The audiotape from 2004 was played before another, made within hours of the first, in which prosecutors say Jeffs can be heard having sex with all the girls at the same time.
In one tape, he is heard telling the girls they 'need to be excited'. Jurors also heard him tell the girls that if they refused him in what he has dubbed the 'heavenly sessions', they would be 'rejected by God'.
The children are said to have included a 14-year-old girl, her two sisters and one half sister.
Several jurors squirmed or wiped away tears during the sometimes-scratchy recording.
Jeffs faces up to 119 years in prison after being convicted by the same jury last week of sexually assaulting two of his brides, who were 12 and 15. The sentencing phase of his trial is expected to finish early this week.
Prosecutors also displayed a page from one of Jeffs' journals. 'If the world knew what I was doing, they would hang me from the highest tree,' he wrote in 2005, according to one of thousands of pages of notes seized from his Texas ranch.
To finish off their presentation, prosecutors reverted to numbers to push home their case and try to high light the full extent of his crimes.
Using summary documents, they told the Tom Green County jurors Jeffs was involved in 550 bigamous marriages, including 67 that involved under-age girls.
Jeffs, they said, has 78 unlawful wives, of whom 24 were under age at the time of the marriage. Of his wives, 29 had previous been his stepmothers, 56 were sisters to each other, and 35 had been students at Alta Academy in Salt Lake City, where Jeffs had been a teacher and principal for 22 years.
The under-age wives were as young as 12 at the time of marriage, and the jury heard and saw documentation of many of the individual girls.
The jury were also shown photos of the polygamist leader riding a Harley-Davidson motorcycle and wearing novelty T-shirts and a baseball cap with a Guinness beer logo.
The photos shown today during the sentencing phase of Jeffs' child sex assault trial were a contrast to the modest, conservative attire favoured by the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, of which the 55-year-old is the head of.
Other pictures introduced into evidence at the beginning of today's session showed stacks of $100 bills, sunglasses, wigs and cellphones.
The materials came from the Cadillac Escalade in which the 55-year-old FLDS leader was captured in 2006, Broadway testified.
Closing arguments begin tomorrow at 9.30pm.
Jeffs boycotted his sentencing phase for a third straight day, but made a brief courtroom appearance after being summoned by state District Judge Barbara Walther.
She told Jeffs's attorney, Deric Walpole, that she wanted to make sure Jeffs hadn't changed his mind.
Wearing a charcoal suit and carrying a blank legal yellow legal pad, Jeffs walked back into court but never spoke. Walpole said Jeffs wanted to stay outside, and he was escorted back to another room in the courthouse.
Soon after, prosecutors played the tapes. Jeffs is heard telling the girls that what 'the five of you are about to do is important'.
The recording ends with him asking the girls if his instructions are detailed enough. The voices of at least two girls responded: 'Yes'.
Last week, jurors heard a tape of what prosecutors said was Jeffs sexually assaulting the 12-year-old victim.
Prosecutors suggested that the polygamist leader told the girls they needed to have sex with him - in what Jeffs called 'heavenly' or 'celestial' sessions - in order to atone for sins in his community.
Several times in his journals, Jeffs wrote of God telling him to take more and more young girls as brides 'who can be worked with and easily taught'.
FBI agent John Broadway testified that fathers who gave their young daughters to Jeffs - their supposed prophet - were rewarded with young brides of their own.
Girls who proved reluctant to have sex with Jeffs were sent away, according to excerpts from Jeffs's journals that prosecutors showed to the jury.
'If they wanted to not be rejected by God, then the new laws [Jeffs] was introducing was requiring them to participate in these sessions,' agent Broadway said.
The recording was played after the court heard over the weekend from one of Jeffs's nephews, who told the jury his uncle sexually abused him when he was just five years old - warning him that no one could be told because 'this is between me, you and God'.
Warren Jeffs was never charged with sexually assaulting his nephew, but Brent Jeffs says he and his uncle reached a settlement in a lawsuit filed in 2003.
The news came as shocking pictures emerged showing Jeffs holding and passionately kissing an underage female church member.
As the court began to consider punishment for Jeffs, prosecutors warned the jury to expect more sickening revelations, including the fact he had 24 underage 'wives'.
Other pictures revealed to the court today showed beds where ritual sex sessions were carried out in front of a church audience.
State witness Rebecca Musser - a former FLDS member who was married as a young girl to Jeffs' father, former FLDS prophet Rulon Jeffs, told the court she had received training about how beds in the temple were to be used in sexual rituals before it was built.
Miss Musser said beds inside the temple were arranged so that witnesses could see the abuse and that a special seat was placed for someone to record the sexual acts.
Also called to testify was Utah psychologist Larry Beall who described Jeffs' grooming of the underage girls as being 'like a peadophile'.
Mr Beall, who has worked with FLDS victims, said some of the abused girls may not even recognise they have been sexually assaulted - such was their 'mental conditioning'
The recordings and journals were seized during a 2008 raid on an FLDS ranch in rural West Texas. That raid led to the charges against Jeffs and several of his followers.
Jeffs spent years evading arrest - crisscrossing the country as a fugitive who eventually made the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list before his capture in 2006.
Jeffs also allegedly excommunicated 60 church members he saw as a threat to his leadership, breaking up 300 families while stripping them of property and 'reassigning' wives and children.
Mr Walpole, Jeffs's attorney, has declined to say whether he'll call witnesses during the sentencing phase.
He has indicated that his plea for leniency will focus on Jeffs being a product of his environment and a culture that hasn't changed for centuries.
Fathers giving away their daughters in exchange for their own child brides? Are these men also being arrested? It's sickening to contemplate how many people have been emotionally wrecked by this man, by their cult "belief system", by their need to follow blindly without questioning the persons in "authority" , by their failure to think for themselves.
Could this man have been able to exact such damage upon so many if not for the fact that people surrendered themselves, suspended their ability to think for themselves, allowed themselves to be talked into these situations?
The extent of the damage here is so enormous, I can't even wrap my brain all the way around it.
What happens to the cult member's CONSCIENCE?
and...What punishment could ever possibly fit these crimes? Just another example of how organized religion has nothing to do with "God", but plenty to do with "Hell".