tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34979986646157486182024-03-13T02:43:36.619-07:00B.C. Polygamy ReportUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger104125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3497998664615748618.post-20707019282749551192013-08-28T12:17:00.003-07:002013-08-28T12:17:49.093-07:00Woe is Winston ......<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">News came today that Winston Blackmore's attempt to obtain special treatment under Canada's Tax Laws has failed.</span><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3497998664615748618.post-4101082447455819542013-07-12T09:08:00.001-07:002013-07-12T09:08:39.564-07:00RCMP Report Delivered to Special Prosecutor<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">It has taken two years, but the RCMP in British Columbia have finally delivered their report on polygamy to the Special Prosecutor, who will now examine it and (we hope) bring charges to bear.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">For more on this development, go to <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2013/07/10/hi-bountiful-polygamy-charges.html" target="_blank">this link</a></span><br />
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3497998664615748618.post-21542459073640351072012-07-30T09:14:00.002-07:002012-07-30T09:14:49.532-07:00Polygamy in the UKThe mind boggles at what is happening in the UK. Apparently, not only are polygamous families allowed to immigrate, but they are now being granted increased benefits.<br />
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<a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2180942/Polygamous-immigrant-families-paid-benefits-Government-blunder.html" target="_blank">Read more:</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3497998664615748618.post-22472780641886128332012-06-13T06:48:00.000-07:002012-06-13T06:48:59.218-07:00A New Book About the Polygamy Reference<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Craig Jones, the lead litigator for the government of British Columbia is publishing a book about the recent polygamy reference entitled "A Cruel Arithmetic: The Case Against Polygamy". It is intended for the general reader, and will be published soon by Irwin Law, Canada.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Jones writes about "the argument he and his colleagues developed against polygamy, drawing from fields as diverse as anthropology, history, economics, and evolutionary psychology. Yet he shows that it was ultimately the testimony of real people that showed how the theoretical harms of polygamy’s "cruel arithmetic" played out upon its victims."</span><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3497998664615748618.post-72783455075703408852012-06-13T06:37:00.001-07:002012-06-13T06:37:42.383-07:00Temporary Polygamy Proposed"Ordinary" polygamy is being challenged in Iran. That country is interested in introducing legal "temporary" polygamy .....<br />
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<a href="http://www.amnesty.org/en/news/iranian-women-fight-controversial-polygamy-bill-2011-11-30" target="_blank">Read more at</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3497998664615748618.post-45602269445035897932012-04-13T13:02:00.000-07:002012-04-13T13:02:21.034-07:00A Harrowing Tale from an Escapee<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Rebecca Musser reveals a tale of fear and horror as she describes life with the senior Jeffs.</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2129032/Rebecca-Musser-reveals-seven-years-sexual-violations-married-Warren-Jeffs-father-Rulon-FLDS-church.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Read more</span>:</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3497998664615748618.post-72920606070805311822012-03-26T12:23:00.000-07:002012-03-26T12:23:06.328-07:00Polygamy Reference will not be appealed to the Supreme Court of CanadaThe B.C. Minister of Justice said today that the Reference decision made by B.C. Supreme Court Chief Justice Robert Bauman in November 2011will not be appealed to the Supreme Court of Canada.<br />
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<a href="http://www.vancouversun.com/news/seek+more+definitive+ruling+polygamy/6360219/story.html" target="_blank">Learn more:</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3497998664615748618.post-31709236561255615932012-01-27T13:03:00.000-08:002012-01-27T13:03:25.687-08:00Living with Plural Wives<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">On the stand in federal tax court, Bountiful leader Winston Blackmore confirmed that he had 21 wives, including sisters whom he married on the same day in the same ceremony.</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">“These are pretty much the list of people who lived with me as wives,” Mr. Blackmore said on Tuesday, following a series of questions from a Department of Justice lawyer that outlined the names and home communities of the women to whom Mr. Blackmore was “sealed” in ceremonies sanctioned by leaders of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, or FLDS.</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/british-columbia/blackmore-describes-living-arrangements-with-his-21-wives/article2313568/" target="_blank">Read more: </a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3497998664615748618.post-74656266116559458612012-01-27T12:58:00.000-08:002012-01-27T12:58:02.427-08:00Preparing for the End of Days?<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">B.C. polygamous leader Winston Blackmore says he took out a $25,000 loan from the bank to prepare for the end of the world. </span><br />
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</div><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> During testimony in the Tax Court of Canada on Thursday, Mr. Blackmore said a patriarch in the community directed him to get the money to “prepare for the worst.” </div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/british-columbia/blackmore-tells-tax-court-he-took-out-loan-to-prepare-for-the-worst/article2316775/" target="_blank">Read more: </a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3497998664615748618.post-14008164473541002712012-01-26T12:06:00.000-08:002012-01-26T12:06:17.190-08:00Money, Money, Money .....<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Polygamous leader Winston Blackmore acknowledges he may not be a prophet, but he’s a little less clear about whether or not he’s the leader of a church in southeast B.C</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </div><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> Mr. Blackmore is trying to make a case in the Tax Court of Canada for special status for his community in Bountiful, B.C</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </div><span class="hdivider" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></span><aside class="articlesidebar s3of12 entry-content-asset" id="articlesidebar" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></aside><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Under heated cross-examination Wednesday by federal lawyer Lynn Burch, Mr. Blackmore at first refused to answer whether or not he thought himself a prophet.</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/british-columbia/polygamist-contradicts-himself-in-tax-court/article2315333/" target="_blank">Read more:</a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3497998664615748618.post-38171877128120625482012-01-25T14:58:00.000-08:002012-01-25T14:58:20.307-08:00So Many Wives .........<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Despite struggling Tuesday in tax court to name all of his wives, Winston Blackmore admitted Wednesday that he'd forgotten one.</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Instead of having 21 wives between 2000 and 2006, Blackmore said he had 22. </div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">During that period, Blackmore said he had approximately 67 children – 47 of whom were born in that six year period alone.</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3497998664615748618.post-86569571651995511532012-01-24T12:35:00.000-08:002012-01-24T12:35:53.231-08:00Blackmore's Unpaid Taxes Under Scrutiny<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The polygamous community of Bountiful is not a congregation and by insisting that it is, community leader Winston Blackmore is trying to offload a tax bill on to those who can ill afford to pay it – including young men shipped out of the community to work at low-paying jobs, a federal tax lawyer said on Monday.</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/british-columbia/polygamist-blackmore-not-entitled-to-tax-break-on-religious-grounds-court-told/article2311874/" target="_blank">Read more: </a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3497998664615748618.post-26970651198285770902012-01-24T12:32:00.000-08:002012-01-24T12:32:40.283-08:00New Special Counsel for Bountiful<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Vancouver lawyer Peter Wilson has been named as the new special prosecutor to look into potential criminal offences in Bountiful.</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">B.C.’s Criminal Justice Branch announced Mr. Wilson’s appointment Wednesday.</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3497998664615748618.post-4622864642288175962012-01-10T13:23:00.000-08:002012-01-10T13:23:49.560-08:00B.C.'s Special Prosecutor Steps Down<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Spurred by details of underage marriages that came to light in a landmark court reference on polygamy, the B.C. government is looking for a special prosecutor to weigh criminal charges relating to activity in Bountiful after the person who had been in the role declined to take another look.</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">“I made my decision on this case 4½ years ago,” said Richard Peck, the Vancouver lawyer who was appointed as special prosecutor on the polygamy file in 2007. “And the government decided to go in a different direction and, as far as I was concerned, I wasn’t going to be involved any more.”</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/british-columbia/bc-politics/polygamy-special-prosecutor-steps-down/article2296445/">Read more: </a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3497998664615748618.post-45085148767590599402011-12-30T08:38:00.000-08:002011-12-30T08:38:40.657-08:00Polygamy Reference to the Supreme Court of Canada?<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The British Columbia government has not yet decided whether or not to send the polygamy reference result for confirmation by the Supreme Court of Canada. </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Amicus Curiae, George Mackintosh has said that he does not intend to appeal the B.C. Supreme Court's decision on the validity of the federal law.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.vancouversun.com/news/still+mulling+sending+polygamy+Supreme+Court+Canada/5908395/story.html" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Read more at</a></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3497998664615748618.post-39242866497759972682011-12-30T08:32:00.000-08:002011-12-30T08:32:26.870-08:00Polygamists Not Wanted in Canada<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The Federal government has toughened its stance on polygamist immigrants to Canada.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.vancouversun.com/Feds+address+polygamy+revised+newcomer+guide/5877869/story.html">Read more at</a></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3497998664615748618.post-75132692019152399562011-12-20T09:36:00.000-08:002011-12-20T09:37:10.104-08:00Federal Immigration Guide - Polygamy<div class="imagesize460" id="imageBox" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><div class="wrapper_0_10_0_0"><div class="imagetext"><span style="font-size: small;">OTTAWA - Canada is hoping to crack down on polygamous relationships such as the one that's come to light during the sensational Shafia honour killing trial, according to Immigration Minister Jason Kenney who will unveil a revised guide for newcomers early next year that will addresses the issue specifically.</span></div><div class="imagetext"></div></div></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In a year-end interview with Postmedia News, Kenney said while polygamy is a concern he raised early on in his mandate, it's one that's been difficult to tackle.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">``We leave no stone unturned to try to prevent what you might call polygamous immigration marriages, but the problem is that if someone comes to the country on a particular visa and then chooses to enter into say a religious marriage, it's never reported with the state in Canada and they never report it to us as an immigration sponsorship,'' he said.</span><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">``It's outside of our system.''</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
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</div><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://www.vancouversun.com/life/Polygamy+Growing+Mormon/5874641/story.html" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Read more at: </a></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3497998664615748618.post-28018287454179407832011-11-25T12:19:00.000-08:002011-11-25T12:19:17.617-08:00RCMP on the Move<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">RCMP officers will be in Texas from Dec. 12 to 16 to gather information about underage Canadian girls believed to have been victimized by Warren Jeffs, the convicted pedophile and leader of a fundamentalist Mormon group.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Sgt. Terry Jacklin of the Southeast District Major Crime Unit said the officers will meet with state lawyers and members of the Texas Rangers to discuss the connection between Jeffs, the leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (FLDS), and girls allegedly sent to him by their families in Bountiful, a polygamous community in B.C.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: medium none; color: black; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;" /><a href="http://www.vancouversun.com/news/RCMP+takes+child+bride+investigation+Texas/5766145/story.html" style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Read more at:</a></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3497998664615748618.post-19505902396238523052011-11-23T11:10:00.000-08:002011-11-23T11:10:49.407-08:00Polygamy Reference - the Judge's Reasons<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Almost exactly one year ago, Judge Robert Bauman began hearing evidence in the case to decide if the federal law against polygamy was constitutional or not.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">You can read his decision at the link below: </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">http://www.courts.gov.bc.ca/jdb-txt/SC/11/15/2011BCSC1588.htm</span></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3497998664615748618.post-76598378982170461782011-11-08T15:18:00.000-08:002011-11-08T15:20:54.004-08:00Decision Day<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Judge Robert Bauman, Chief Justice of the British Columbia Supreme Court, will hand down his reasons in the polygamy reference case on 23 November 2011. </span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3497998664615748618.post-5071016359844803922011-11-08T09:13:00.000-08:002011-11-08T09:13:37.388-08:00FLDS Bishop Convicted<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">A former bishop has been convicted of performing an illegal wedding ceremony between his 12-year-old daughter and polygamist cult leader Warren Jeffs.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">Jurors deliberated for about an hour and 20 minutes before finding Fredrick Merril Jessop guilty with a felony count of performing the illegal wedding between Jeffs and the underage girl in 2006.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;">The ceremony took place at the Yearning For Zion Ranch near Eldorado, owned by the Jeffs-led Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS).</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 1.2em;"><a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2058952/Ex-bishop-convicted-marrying-12-year-old-daughter-illegal-wedding-polygamist-leader-Warren-Jeffs.html">Read more: </a></span></div><div style="background-color: transparent; border: medium none; color: black; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; overflow: hidden; text-align: left; text-decoration: none;"><br />
<a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2058952/Ex-bishop-convicted-marrying-12-year-old-daughter-illegal-wedding-polygamist-leader-Warren-Jeffs.html#ixzz1d8Q1T7HQ" style="color: #003399;"></a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3497998664615748618.post-59682569880506452802011-09-22T12:31:00.000-07:002011-09-22T12:31:24.753-07:00New Tale of Woe Caused by Polygamous Marriage<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">More and more FLDS members are "coming out" and telling the world of the pain they endured under the leadership of Warren Jeffs. </span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Kerry Mcqueeney of the U.K.'s Daily Mail wrote on 22nd September about Elissa Wall:</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A woman who was forced into marriage at the age of 14 while under the control of paedophile Mormon polygamist Warren Jeffs's cult has recounted her harrowing ordeal.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">The woman, Elissa Wall, revealed how her own mother resorted to holding her daughter's hand at the altar in a bid to calm her down as she was forced to marry her 19-year-old cousin, whom she despised.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">In a CNN interview, which is to be aired tonight, Elissa describes how she cried so much during the ceremony that her wedding dress was soaked with her own tears.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">She told broadcaster Anderson Cooper: 'It was so devastating that even in the ceremony itself I'm crying to such a level that my wedding dress is soaked.</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span></span><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">'They had my mother stand next to me and hold my hand just to get me to take my vows.'</span></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
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</span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3497998664615748618.post-90832457781840832422011-08-12T11:11:00.000-07:002011-08-12T11:11:12.897-07:00Taking Credit ..............<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The CBC today reported that the Barry Penner, Attorney General of B.C., is crediting his ministry with providing evidence to the Texas authorities which aided the prosecution of Warren Jeffs.</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This morning the CBC website contained the following piece:</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">B.C. has been unable to win polygamy convictions connected to the religious commune of Bountiful, but the province's attorney general is taking credit for helping to prosecute American polygamist leader Warren Jeffs.</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Attorney General Barry Penner said his ministry shared information with prosecutors leading up to the life sentence imposed by a Texas court after Jeffs, the self-proclaimed prophet of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, or FLDS, was convicted of sexually assaulting two teen girls.</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"We shared [information] with authorities in Texas and I am told that it proved to be useful in the recent prosecution and conviction of Mr. Jeffs," Penner said.</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"> </span><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Penner didn't say exactly what details were offered to U.S. prosecutors, but hinted that the information came to light fairly recently.</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2011/08/11/bc-warren-jeffs-bc-evidence.html">Read more at: </a></div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3497998664615748618.post-63556239299939140312011-08-10T13:02:00.000-07:002011-08-10T13:05:00.176-07:00RCMP Preparing to leave for Texas<div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A day after the sentencing of Warren Jeffs, RCMP members from B.C. are preparing to journey to Texas, in a search for evidence concerning the trafficking of young girls between Bountiful and the Yearning of Zion Ranch.</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Will there be gnashing of teeth and quaking of knees at Bountiful, as the Canadian authorities make their first move since the beginning, last November, of the reference case in B.C.'s Supreme Court?</div><div style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><br />
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