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Date: May 17, 2019 09:35PM
This is a legal case I’ve been following for several years, involving the polygamist community of Bountiful in Southeast British Columbia. The FLDS bishop (maybe former bishop, not sure) has been convicted of moving an underage girl across the border into the US to be married polygamously.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/james-oler-decision-1.5140018Interestingly, the article refers to Bountiful as a “fundamentalist Christian sect”. I’ve seen lots of coverage about the FLDS in the Canadian news over the years, and on CBC in particular, and I haven’t seen that before.