“There is really nothing more to be said.”īlackmore also told Turner that “I certainly get tired of this constant legal battle. “Anyone who knows anything at all about the original doctrine of the Church of Jesus Christ and the Latter Day Saints, which is the doctrine I follow, knows good and well that the principle of plural marriage and congregational living, where people work together for the good of the whole with a common view of taking care of everybody is part of that doctrine. “Yesterday being August the 13, 2014, after learning that the RCMP was looking for me, I went into the local detachment of the RCMP in Creston at 7 o’clock, at which time I surrendered my passport, and was charged with the same charge I was charged with five and a half years ago - that being polygamy, and nothing more,” Blackmore said. Winston Blackmore was in Cranbrook on Thursday, and gave a statement on the matter to Mike Turner of Global News. (CBC) Blackmore and Oler are leaders of two. 9, 2014 along with a number of his daughters, who came to support him. Winston Blackmore and James Oler, who lead separate factions in the community of Bountiful, one hour west of Cranbrook, were each charged Wednesday with one count of polygamy. Winston Blackmore appeared outside the courthouse in Creston, B.C., on Oct. have been charged for the second time with practising polygamy. In an electronic message to The Salt Lake Tribune, she suggested Canadians are hung up on the sex that occurs between a man and his plural wives and don't appreciate how the household works together to accomplish goals.Two leaders of a polygamous religious community in B.C. Zelpha Chatwin, who grew up on the Utah-Arizona line and is one of Blackmore's wives, on Tuesday said Canadians are good people, but they have let fear and the acts of a few men form biases. "It is intolerable that children should be abused in this way in the name of 'freedom of religion," the statement from Sound Choices Coalition said. The coalition's statement also encouraged authorities to resume investigating Blackmore for any crimes related to marrying teens.īlackmore has acknowledged such marriages, but said the girls were within the age of consent. In Utah, the Sound Choices Coalition, which seeks to dissuade people from joining plural marriages, applauded the verdicts. "This is a bell tone that will be rung throughout the world," Mereska said Tuesday. She hopes that deterrence will be international and encourage prosecutions in the United States and other countries. Nancy Mereska, founder of the Stop Polygamy in Canada Society, cheered the verdicts and hopes it will deter people from entering plural marriage. Blackmore, according to press reports from Canada on Monday, has 25 wives and 148 children. "The door's left wide open with Utah," Nielsen said. Utah prosecutors have said they are concerned with polygamous households that have violence or fraud.īut Nielsen is worried those policies can change at anytime. Someone with more smarts than me will have to explain it to me."Ĭanadian prosecutors did what the Utah Attorney General's Office and county attorneys in Utah have said they will not do - prosecute polygamists for polygamy alone. "I'm surprised that would try and prosecute him period," Nielsen said in an interview. The conviction there, he said Tuesday, may just help drive polygamy further underground in both countries. Nielsen knows Blackmore and has family in Canada. Nielsen has only one wife, and says he wouldn't tell anyone if he had a second because he's worried he would be prosecuted for polygamy. Richard Nielsen is a trustee in the Church and Kingdom of God, based in Bluffdale, and which has so-called fundamentalist Mormon beliefs, including a belief in polygamy. The reaction extended into Utah on Tuesday.
Each man now faces up to five years in prison, though there will likely be an appeal hearing before a sentence is issued.īoth men are former Canadian bishops in the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, which is headquartered on the Utah-Arizona line. Myself with two sisters and one niece, all my age, next to my wonderful.Posted by Dollie Blackmore Roundy on Monday, July 24, 2017īlackmore, 61, and another man, James Oler, 53, were convicted Monday in a court in Cranbrook, British Columbia, of one count of polygamy. This picture is a fitting one for this day.
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