Bountiful B.C. Religious Commune Targeted In Polygamy Investigation By Canadian Authorities

[MADem]

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police have renewed investigation into possible polygamy within the Bountiful B.C. religious commune, a settlement of roughly 1,000 members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints located in southeastern British Columbia near the U.S.-Canadian border, the Canadian Press reports.

Shirley Bond, the attorney-general of British Columbia, issued instructions this week for special prosecutor Peter Wilson to consider filing polygamy charges against members of the commune, which was heavily investigated last year on allegations that underage girls were being moved across the border from the United States into Canada for the purpose of being entered into plural marriages with older men, the Globe and Mail reports.

Canadian authorities have been investigating the commune for polygamy-related crimes since the early 1990s, the Canadian Press reported in a separate article.

In 2009, two powerful leaders within the commune, Winston Blackmore and James Oler, were each charged with practicing polygamy.

More at link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/02/bountiful-bc-polygamy-investigation-canada_n_1398098.html?ref=topbar

[cbayer]

1. Looks like they have continued their practice of putting female children in these marriages.

[MADem]

2. Well, they got shut down on this side of the border, so there ya go.

Wonder if some of 'em ran off to Mexico as well?

[cbayer]

3. Apparently they have had colonies in Mexico since 1885

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mormon_colonies_in_Mexico

[MADem]

4. Mitt's deddy wuz born in Mexico--that's why he was known as "Chihuahua George." nt