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She told the court that Blackmore once told her he was 'only doing what God told him to do.' The 12-day trial heard from one of Blackmore's ex-wives, Jane Blackmore. 'Twenty-seven years and tens of millions of dollars later, all we've proved is something we've never denied. 'I'm guilty of living my religion and that's all I'm saying today because I've never denied that,' Blackmore told reporters after the verdict. Neither denied having multiple marriages and Blackmore has fathered more than 145 children from his marriages. James Oler, another former leader from the same community, was accused of having five wives and Blackmore 24 wives.īoth men are former bishops of the sect in the province's southeast. Supreme Court on Monday, Justice Sheri Ann Donegan said Blackmore 'subscribed to beliefs and practices of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints,' a Mormon sect that believes in plural marriages. Winston Blackmore, 60, and James Oler, 53, were convicted of practising plural or 'celestial' marriage in the fundamentalist community of Bountiful, B.C. have been found guilty of polygamy after marrying more than two dozen women over the course of 25 years. Hopefully I get those posts up sometime soon.Įditing to add before I forget - Millie's cousins/sister-wives Alyshia and Noleta Blackmore Jeffs are still considered missing.Two former religious leaders in B.C.

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Millie's half-brother reported her whereabouts to the Mounties but she's a young adult now so not much can be done about it, especially since she appears to still be loyal to Warren Jeffs.įor TV watchers: If you're interested, the current season of Escaping Polygamy on A&E has a two episode arch in which Millie Blackmore's half-brother Brandon (from the news articles) accompanies his fiancee Rachel Jeffs (Warren's divorced daughter) and Amanda Kingston to North Dakota to try and retrieve Rachel's half-sister Teresa Jeffs Jessop from the FLDS compound there.Īnd in other fundamentalist Mormon mysteries/true crime news, I've meaning to do a post on the true crime subreddit on a recent tragic Kingston Clan related double murder, and also I recently realized that when I wrote my first fundamentalist Mormon mysteries post, I'd completely forgotten about a Kingston Clan murder that has been unsolved since 1973.

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Bizarrely enough, she was found to be back in Bountiful, living with her mother Emily, who is currently on trial along with Millie's father for child trafficking (for taking Millie to Arizona to marry Warren Jeffs). Well, one of the young wives, Millie Blackmore Jeffs, who is now about 25 years old, has been located. This came to light during the YFZ raid in 2008 and at least one of Warren's child brides went back to Bountiful for a short while, but now all three of his Bountiful child brides are unaccounted for (other than it's believed they came back to the USA) and the Mounties are looking for them.< He also has other wives from Bountiful who were in their late teens when he married them or who had previously been married to Warren's father Rulon Jeffs and married Warren as widowed adults. Many consider the practice of exchanging brides to be human trafficking due to the ages of the girls and the illegal immigration aspect.Īnyway, in the early 2000's Warren Jeffs married three Bountiful girls who were very, very underage, just 12 and 13 years old. Zelpha Chatwin Blackmore, who is quoted in the Vice article, was actually in danger of being deported back to the United States because she didn't really come to Bountiful legally and despite living there many years and having many children with her Canadian husband, that marriage isn't legally recognized. (and vice versa, American FLDS women and girls going to Canada) violates laws against illegal immigration.

The American and Canadian FLDS communities have intermarried for generations, even though religious-only plural marriages don't have legal standing in either country, and frequently Canadian FLDS women and girls coming to the U.S. In that original post I explained that there's an entire community of FLDS followers in British Columbia, Canada, and I wrote the following: In August I did a post on the missing Canadian child brides of FLDS leader Warren Jeffs.

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