Sentencing arguments for former husband and wife in B.C. polygamy case
CRANBROOK, B.C. — A B.C. court will hear sentencing arguments today for a former husband and wife convicted of taking a girl into the United States to marry the now imprisoned leader of their polygamous sect.
In February, Justice Paul Pearlman of the Supreme Court of British Columbia, found Brandon Blackmore and Gail Blackmore guilty of taking a 13-year-old girl across the U.S. border for a sexual purpose.
James Oler, a former leader in the polygamous community of Bountiful, B.C., was acquitted of the same charge after the judge ruled there wasn’t proof he crossed the border with a 15-year-old girl who was later married to a member of the sect.
The trial in Cranbrook, B.C., heard about the polygamous beliefs and practises in the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.