Why doesn’t BC prosecute polygamists?

By StatGuy
April 9th, 2008

That question is being asked once again in the wake of the huge bust at the West Texas compound of the polygamist Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS). Last weekend, child welfare investigators and law enforcement personnel liberated teenage mothers and underage girls who said they had been forced to marry. Over 400 children have been taken into state custody. The raid, prompted by a report that a 16-year-old girl had been sexually assaulted at the compound, uncovered rampant and systematic emotional and physical abuse of children and their mothers.

A FLDS colony exists at Bountiful, BC, where polygamy has been an open secret for decades, yet provincial governments have refused to prosecute. The events in Texas have renewed pressure on Attorney-General Wally Oppal to get off his duff. the rest