Americans Against Abuses of Polygamy
VANCOUVER — The British Columbia Supreme Court is expected to release its long-awaited ruling in a polygamy case on Nov. 23. In April, after 42 days of hearing evidence about whether or not Canada’s polygamy law is constitutional, Chief Justice Robert Bauman reserved judgment. Bauman’s ruling will be posted on the B.C. Supreme Court website, [...]
Former polygamous sect leader Wendell Nielsen, 70, on Tuesday pleaded no contest to bigamy and was sentenced to serve 10 years of probation. As part of the agreement with prosecutors, Nielsen also will not file an appeal and drop his challenge to Texas’s bigamy statute, said his attorney, David Botsford. Via Former FLDS Leader Pleads [...]
In an audio tape played today at the trial of polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs, jurors heard the religious leader allegedly raping a 12-year-old girl and telling her to feel “the spirit of God.” via Warren Jeffs Rape Trial Hears Audio / ABC News
Canada’s highest profile polygamist has not only lost in an attempt to win a sweeping ban on the use of evidence and witness testimony in federal Tax Court, Winston Blackmore was ordered to pay $50,000 in costs. via Polygamist Winston Blackmore loses bid for evidence bad in tax court / The Vancouver Sun
A man accused of marrying a West Michigan woman without divorcing his wife in Rhode Island is wanted on a bench warrant issued by a Muskegon County judge. Circuit Court Judge Timothy Hicks issued the bench warrant for Richard Barton Jr., 34, on April 26, when Barton failed to appear for a pretrial hearing. Barton also missed a [...]
The Utah County Attorney has confirmed … the Lehi Police Department has completed their felony bigamy investigation into Kody Brown and his gigantic family — and the case has been turned over to the Utah County Attorney … who will ultimately decide whether or not to charge the family with a crime. via Judgment Day [...]
Sister Wives makes gay marriage look tame in comparison, and shows us what polygamy is truly about. Not procreating in the name of God and bearing children to further the faith, but getting it on with as many women as a man can get away with — the younger, prettier and thinner, the better. This [...]
It’s clear from the Sunday night premiere of the seven-part Sister Wives that what’s in it for Kody, who is a charming, youthful man with much energy and rock star hair, is that life is a smorgasbord of interesting if compliant women, with Kody as some kind of working-class American gigolo representing the main course. Edmonton [...]
“It’s a hard life to live, I’d say you’re better off having a mistress than plural wives,” John says. “There isn’t a plural family that didn’t have a lot of internal domestic problems; jealousy is a huge factor. It’s all about power, money, sex and ego. A man wouldn’t be normal if his ego wasn’t [...]
Lehi police are investigating whether the family is violating bigamy laws in plain view on cable TV. Brown is only legally married to Meri but also calls three other women his spouses: Janelle, Christine and Robyn. via The Associated Press: Utah police investigate plural family for bigamy.
