Fifteen years ago, James Marion Oler took his 15-year-old daughter across the Canada-U.S. border to be married in Utah in a religious ceremony in the tradition of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. He received a 15-year-old bride in return.
Jeffs stripped Oler of his five wives and 24 children, forced him out of the family home near Creston where his father had homesteaded, and told him to leave the area to reflect on his actions. The trial judge agreed, but the B.C. Court of Appeal overruled the decision, saying that the prosecution needed to prove only that the daughter normally lived in Canada, and ordered a retrial.
On June 26 at 11:13 a.m., Oler’s daughter was married “for time and all eternity” to a man she had never met. She was his second wife. Ten minutes later, Oler married a 15-year-old for all eternity. It was his fifth wife, and his second marriage to a teenager that year.“The only honourable way to leave the FLDS is to die,” a former member testified last week at Oler’s retrial. “I’ve known that since I was a baby.
And while he has spent most of the last decade “repenting from afar” in the faint hope that Warren Jeffs will welcome him back to the fold, Oler said that he didn’t want to “be seen as a martyr and does not want to be seen as defiant.” Regardless of what Justice Devlin decides, the ruling comes many years too late, through no fault of hers. And if he is found guilty, there is a very good chance that the sentence will seem too little. That has been the pattern for these polygamy trials.
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