'Jane Doe' of Warren Jeffs FLDS fame no longer seeks anonymity, shows photo

"Nearly two years after leveling first civil and then criminal allegations against Warren S. Jeffs, a young woman has moved away from anonymity. Elissa Wall on Friday released a photo of herself and agreed to the publication of the name she used in 2001, when she was the 14-year-old bride of her 19-year-old cousin. She wants to remind people how young she was at the time of the wedding, performed by Jeffs, and subsequent alleged rapes by her husband, said Greg Hoole, one of her attorneys. "A photo will help people keep that in mind," Hoole said. Now 21, married, and the mother of two children, she is in a witness protection program and has legally changed her name, he said."

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