![]() Hanna was one of the officers who raided the FLDS Yearning for Zion Ranch in Eldorado after Blackmore and his wife were accused of taking a 13-year-old across the U.S. The court is expected to hear the history of the breakaway Mormon sects in the next few days, when Texas Ranger Nick Hanna testifies. The legal battle dates back to the 1990s when investigations of the isolated religious sect were prompted by allegations that Bountiful residents were involved in multiple-wife marriages, described as "celestial marriages." Polygamist welcomes new child bride probe.In previous Federal Tax Court hearings he forgot to name one of his wives, and admitted he'd need to call home for help to be able to name all of his offspring. Unlike Blackmore, he's kept quiet about his actions, refusing interviews.īlackmore does not deny he's had 24 wives over a 25-year period, and produced 145 children. Oler is on trial for allegedly marrying four women between 19. The two men lost a bid to be tried separately. He and his brother-in-law had a falling out and no longer speak. Oler was appointed to lead Bountiful following Blackmore's excommunication from the Mormon splinter group in 2002 by Warren Jeffs, who was then the American FLDS leader. enclave, called Bountiful, where plural marriage has been practised for 70 years by the splinter group of the Mormon Church.īlackmore at one time was the leader of the sect. The two former bishops of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS) are descendants of the original founders of the 1,500-person rural B.C. ![]() Two young girls of the polygamous community of Bountiful walk past the mountains at Bountiful near Creston, B.C., in April 2008. ![]()
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