tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post5875847395830029282..comments2024-03-26T14:34:28.415-07:00Comments on Religion and Child Abuse News: Mormon fundamentalist leader must testify in tax case and reveal details of polygamy and child brides in BountifulPerry Bulwerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comBlogger93125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-28586722482991210222017-07-30T14:20:57.348-07:002017-07-30T14:20:57.348-07:00Such organization and significant security measure...Such organization and significant security measures associated with their storage are good indicators that the records were of some significant importance to the FLDS.<br /><br />“…Like the LDS, the FLDS adheres to the belief in the importance of certain valid ordinances for its members’ salvation. Accurate record keeping is integral to the validity of such an ordinance. This spiritual Perry Bulwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-51410834073316481232017-07-30T14:20:31.251-07:002017-07-30T14:20:31.251-07:00Legal polygamy battle not over yet
Proceedings mo...<i>Legal polygamy battle not over yet</i><br /><br />Proceedings move to charter arguments, despite findings of guilt in polygamy trial.<br /><br />by TREVOR CRAWLEy, Cranbrook Daily Townsman Jul 26th, 2017<br /><br />Polygamist leader Winston Blackmore was rushed by a mob of media on Monday morning before entering Cranbrook Supreme Court to hear his judgement on a polygamy charge.<br /><br />“Perry Bulwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-88908665312873143502016-06-02T10:59:12.508-07:002016-06-02T10:59:12.508-07:00Accused polygamist Winston Blackmore loses court a...Accused polygamist Winston Blackmore loses court appeal<br /> <br />BY KEITH FRASER, The Province JUNE 1, 2016<br /> <br />VANCOUVER — B.C.’s highest court has upheld the appointment of special prosecutor Peter Wilson and the decision by Wilson to file polygamy charges against Winston Blackmore.<br />Wilson, the third special prosecutor appointed in the case, decided in August 2014 to file Perry Bulwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-6707923884180809262016-05-12T13:50:12.403-07:002016-05-12T13:50:12.403-07:00Firmly rooted back on Earth Rayner said she decide...Firmly rooted back on Earth Rayner said she decided from that point on not to subscribe to the church’s ways and in small ways would rebel, unbeknownst to her parents.<br /><br />“I’d sneak off and see Elvis movies,” she says, adding it was hard to defy her parents overtly. That came later, after she graduated from Richmond High and left the family home at 18 and went to work and live in Perry Bulwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-17059734972044833842016-05-12T13:49:53.121-07:002016-05-12T13:49:53.121-07:00Bountiful turned teen off faith
by PHILIP RAPHAEL...Bountiful turned teen off faith<br /><br />by PHILIP RAPHAEL / RICHMOND NEWS APRIL 26, 2016<br /><br />Walt Disney’s movies were fine. Elvis flicks — strictly forbidden.<br /><br />Those were the kind of restrictions Maggie Rayner grew up with in her family during the 1950s in Richmond. It was a life full of rigid rules that adhered to the Mormon faith. Except the line was drawn at polygamy.<brPerry Bulwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-24562543917205975242016-04-23T14:42:42.602-07:002016-04-23T14:42:42.602-07:00Three other people from Bountiful were also charge...Three other people from Bountiful were also charged in 2014 and will go to trial this fall on more serious offences.<br /><br />James Oler, another former FLDS bishop, is charged with one count of polygamy and one count of unlawful removal of a child from Canada. Oler is alleged to have taken one of his under-aged daughters to the United States to be “married” to another FLDS man.<br /><br />Perry Bulwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-43853372045261145352016-04-23T14:42:33.711-07:002016-04-23T14:42:33.711-07:00Polygamists thrive even though polygamy is illegal...Polygamists thrive even though polygamy is illegal<br /><br />by DAPHNE BRAMHAM, VANCOUVER SUN Edmonton Journal April 13, 2016 <br /> <br />There’s something so nutty about the polygamous, fundamentalist Mormon communities in Canada and the United States that it’s easy to dismiss it all as a bad tabloid joke.<br /><br />It is incomprehensible to most of us that anyone — even Canada’s best-known Perry Bulwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-63478784367688620122015-12-17T11:52:25.968-08:002015-12-17T11:52:25.968-08:00Canadian polygamist Blackmore among latest to rece...Canadian polygamist Blackmore among latest to receive homes from Utah-run trust<br /><br />By NATE CARLISLE | The Salt Lake Tribune November 23, 2015<br /> <br />The trust that owns much of the real estate in two polygamous towns on the Utah-Arizona line has awarded another batch of homes, including one that is going to a man charged with practicing polygamy in Canada.<br /><br />Winston Perry Bulwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-56998006466771977722015-09-22T12:55:05.936-07:002015-09-22T12:55:05.936-07:00While Warren Jeffs long career as a serial abuser ...While Warren Jeffs long career as a serial abuser and rapist created lurid headlines, and ultimately landed him in prison, the real story of the FLDS Church is at least as much about money and power as about sex crimes. Brower and Berg only scrape the surface of those issues in a 90-minute documentary, but it’s not fanciful at all to compare the interlocking tangle of FLDS-owned shell Perry Bulwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-32790741923720257702015-09-22T12:54:57.012-07:002015-09-22T12:54:57.012-07:00Brower chuckles in a way that suggests he has aske...Brower chuckles in a way that suggests he has asked himself the same question. “I would say the difference between them is an AK-47,” he says. “Warren doesn’t have those, and instead of using AK-47s, he uses people’s fear for their salvation. Where my fear comes from is that we know that there’s armed security there [on the various FLDS compounds]. They’ve got weapons, and they’ve had tactical Perry Bulwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-17794406026001050962015-09-22T12:53:48.211-07:002015-09-22T12:53:48.211-07:00This subject makes private investigator Sam Brower...This subject makes private investigator Sam Brower a little uneasy when I bring it up. Brower, who is himself a Mormon, is a sunburned, silver-haired, middle-aged man with the distinctive air of a Westerner who has spent his life outside. At breakfast in a trendy coffee shop in lower Manhattan (where I met him and Amy Berg, the filmmaker), he orders a Diet Coke amid a veritable forest of lattes Perry Bulwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-74751755407014043652015-09-22T12:52:32.020-07:002015-09-22T12:52:32.020-07:00Americas little known ISIS The fundamentalist Morm...Americas little known ISIS The fundamentalist Mormon sect that blends polygamy, child rape and organized crime<br /> <br />You might remember the sordid tale of prophet-rapist Warren Jeffs, but you don't know about his vast crime empire<br /> <br />by ANDREW O'HEHIR, Salon September 19, 2015<br /><br />Over the past century or more, there have been quite a few breakaway Mormon sects Perry Bulwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-88117212899619204512015-09-22T12:42:48.685-07:002015-09-22T12:42:48.685-07:00DOL fines fundamentalist Mormon church $1.9M over ...DOL fines fundamentalist Mormon church $1.9M over child labor<br /> <br />By Lydia Wheeler - THE HILL September 09, 2015<br /> <br />The Department of Labor (DOL) is fining one of the largest fundamentalist Mormon churches $1.9 million for allegedly violating child labor laws.<br /> <br />The agency says its wage and hour division conducted a multiyear investigation and found that leaders of thePerry Bulwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-46260578859837930742015-09-06T11:22:51.773-07:002015-09-06T11:22:51.773-07:00Bountiful polygamy case heads straight to trial
B...Bountiful polygamy case heads straight to trial<br /><br />By Staff Canadian Press September 2, 2015 <br /> <br />VANCOUVER – A lawyer prosecuting the accused polygamist leader of a fundamentalist Mormon commune has opted to forego a preliminary inquiry and head straight to trial.<br /><br />The Ministry of the Attorney General has signed off on special prosecutor Peter Wilson’s request to Perry Bulwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-27001301120376735482015-09-06T11:15:01.461-07:002015-09-06T11:15:01.461-07:00When Blackmore was in Grade 4, she said a cousin t...When Blackmore was in Grade 4, she said a cousin took her into the trees behind his family’s house and told her to take off her clothes. She did, but has no memory of what happened next.<br /><br />When she was older, an uncle pinned her to the ground and kissed her all over. As she struggled and kicked to get away, she remembers people watching and laughing. The uncle and his family came for Perry Bulwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-17493978927190032602015-09-06T11:14:52.693-07:002015-09-06T11:14:52.693-07:00Polygamys poster girl now plans to walk for its vi...Polygamys poster girl now plans to walk for its victims<br /> <br />Cindy Blackmore says child sexual abuse is rampant in polygamous community of Bountiful<br /> <br />BY DAPHNE BRAMHAM, VANCOUVER SUN COLUMNIST AUGUST 28, 2015<br /> <br />A decade ago Cindy Blackmore was the Canadian poster girl for polygamy. Now 24, she wants to raise awareness about the “disgustingly prevalent” amount of Perry Bulwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-56295265401674390032015-09-06T11:11:31.039-07:002015-09-06T11:11:31.039-07:00Former polygamous sect member to walk from Canada ...Former polygamous sect member to walk from Canada to Mexico to address sex abuse<br /><br />by Nate Carlisle, The Salt Lake Tribune August 28 2015 <br /><br />The first time Cindy Blackmore left Canada, and the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints enclave there, she took an airplane.<br /><br />This time, she's walking from British Columbia. Blackmore says her Perry Bulwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-57981737564685472702015-08-11T11:14:22.061-07:002015-08-11T11:14:22.061-07:00Stickboy was the critically acclaimed piece about ...Stickboy was the critically acclaimed piece about bullying that was commissioned by the company for the 2014 season. The libretto was written by Vancouver-based, spoken-word poet Shane Koyczan. He’s best known for his performance at TED in 2013 and at the opening ceremony for the 2010 Winter Olympics.<br /><br />For traditionalists — and even for non-opera-goers — the idea of turning news storiesPerry Bulwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-52136118666456986032015-08-11T11:14:12.926-07:002015-08-11T11:14:12.926-07:00Polygamy the opera comes to Vancouver
Dark Siste...Polygamy the opera comes to Vancouver<br /> <br />Dark Sisters, which premiered in New York City four years ago, will be staged here in November<br /> <br />BY DAPHNE BRAMHAM, VANCOUVER SUN AUGUST 9, 2015<br /> <br />Polygamy as opera? Well, why not? The lives of North America’s fundamentalist Mormons have enough Sturm and Drang to fuel not one, but two reality TV shows.<br /><br />SisterPerry Bulwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-4536971815144911872015-07-23T15:12:03.318-07:002015-07-23T15:12:03.318-07:00Prosecuting polygamous men will invariably bring t...Prosecuting polygamous men will invariably bring their wives into direct contact with the criminal justice system. They may be viewed as complicit in their husband’s marital arrangements, and the terms of Canada’s polygamy ban are broad enough to capture husbands and wives alike who are involved in polygamous marriage or co-habitation.<br /><br />For years, criminal prosecution loomed like the Perry Bulwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-45953497315838755102015-07-23T15:11:54.535-07:002015-07-23T15:11:54.535-07:00NOTE FROM PERRY BULWER: The following preface to t...NOTE FROM PERRY BULWER: The following preface to the article below was written by Nancy Mereska, in her blog "Stop Polygamy in Canada Movement" at http://stoppolygamy.com/<br /><br />**********<br />Angela Campbell's "research" for the Polygamy Reference Trial was torn apart piece by piece by the attorney's representing Stop Polygamy in Canada (Brian Samuels) and the Perry Bulwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-36456300506830673092015-06-25T15:01:42.737-07:002015-06-25T15:01:42.737-07:00Winston Blackmore polygamy charge upheld by BC Sup...Winston Blackmore polygamy charge upheld by BC Supreme Court<br /><br />Blackmore is one of 4 people facing charges related to polygamy from southeastern B.C. community<br /><br />By Mike Laanela, CBC News June 25, 2015 <br /><br />The leader of a British Columbia polygamous sect has lost his attempt in the province's Supreme Court to have the polygamy charge against him quashed, his Perry Bulwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-25459778748460513572015-06-14T14:56:59.685-07:002015-06-14T14:56:59.685-07:00Polygamy charges should be thrown out over delays,...Polygamy charges should be thrown out over delays, alleged prosecutor ‘shopping,’ B.C. court hears<br /> <br />by Geordon Omand, The Canadian Press | National Post June 9, 2015 <br /><br />VANCOUVER — A polygamy charge against the leader of a fundamentalist, Mormon breakaway commune in southeastern British Columbia is unfair and should be thrown out because he wasn’t given “fair notice,” a Perry Bulwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-44056822352735630102015-06-08T14:54:03.082-07:002015-06-08T14:54:03.082-07:00BC government faces off against Bountiful leader o...BC government faces off against Bountiful leader over polygamy<br /><br />Geordon Omand, The Canadian Press, CTV News June 8, 2015<br /><br />VANCOUVER - The leader of a fundamentalist religious commune in British Columbia's southern interior will square off in court today against the provincial government over whether the province has the right to charge him with polygamy.<br /><br />Perry Bulwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4377671787652051592.post-52576155243295800132015-05-03T12:02:29.265-07:002015-05-03T12:02:29.265-07:00B.C. defends its decision to file new polygamy cha...B.C. defends its decision to file new polygamy charges against Bountiful leader<br /> <br />by GEORDON OMAND, THE CANADIAN PRESS news1130 April 30, 2015<br /><br />VANCOUVER – The B.C. government is defending its right to lay a polygamy charge against the head of a fundamentalist Mormon sect in the province’s southern Interior, say documents filed in B.C. Supreme Court.<br /><br />The Perry Bulwerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12494489416673128157noreply@blogger.com