Priesthood documents on teen marriages can be used in polygamy trial: judge
CRANBROOK, B.C. — Documents admitted into court for three accused from a polygamous community in British Columbia allege the trio took two girls, aged 13 and 15, to the United States to marry elders of their fundamentalist church.
The priesthood records show that Warren Jeffs, the now imprisoned prophet of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, married the 13-year-old girl in 2004.
Brandon Blackmore and Ruth Gail Blackmore are accused in B.C. Supreme Court of transporting the girl into the United States for a sexual purpose.
James Oler faces the same charge in connection to a 15-year-old who the records say was married to James Leroy Johnson in 2004.