Carolyn Jessop, 43, was born in the U.S. into a radical polygamist cult, the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints (FLDS). At 18, she became the fourth wife of a 50-year-old ...

Jones rejected suggestions by Macintosh and others that the harms of polygamy could be addressed by implementing stricter child-exploitation or trafficking laws or even more vigorous enforcement of ...

VANCOUVER – Polygamous marriages in the religious commune of Bountiful, B.C., are once again under the scrutiny of the RCMP, following two decades of similar investigations that have so far failed to ...

SALT LAKE CITY–Utah prosecutors filed a rape charge yesterday against the ex-husband whose marriage was at the centre of polygamous-sect leader Warren Jeffs’s trial. The charge against Allen Glade ...

After more than two months of hearing evidence on polygamy, there’s no one in the Vancouver courtroom who disagrees that the practice can be harmful. The most disturbing evidence the B.C. government ...

Three members of a polygamist sect in Bountiful, B.C., are facing charges of taking underage girls across the U.S. border to become child brides. Closing arguments are expected to be heard today in a ...

VANCOUVER The same supply-and-demand forces that drive the economy ensure women are worse off in societies where polygamy is practised, a professor testified Tuesday at a landmark court case examining ...

VANCOUVER — The British Columbia Court of Appeal has ordered a new trial for the former leader of a religious sect who was acquitted of taking a 15-year-old girl across the U.S. border for a sexual ...

Three members of a B.C. polygamist sect are to go on trial in B.C. Supreme Court Tuesday for allegedly taking underage girls across the U.S. border to become child brides. James Marion Oler, Brandon ...

Polygamist Winston Blackmore married Lorraine Johnson when she was 15 years old. Ms. Johnson had a baby boy two weeks before her 17th birthday. She was one of Mr. Blackmore's four 15-year-old brides, ...

VANCOUVER—An expert witness says increased demand for wives in polygamous societies leads to cultural institutions that control women and harm their financial, social and physical well-being. Shoshana ...