The bottom line here is that Jeffs and his Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, a polygamist sect based in Hildale, Utah and Colorado City, Ariz., did major damage to these kids who never had a chance to be kids, to learn, to grow, to mature, to make decisions based in their own hearts.

Jeffs preached that his followers should "bleed the beast" -- the federal government -- through welfare scams, which is why many of those children in this very closed society have no clue who their fathers really are. Meanwhile, you and I have supported them.

They mixed public and church funds. They played the system. They did permanent damage to young lives, both girls forced into submitting to pedophiles and boys tossed out of the community because, well, there were too many males in town.

And, now, he's sitting in a lonely jail cell in Las Vegas.

I hope he rots there.