{"id":5840,"date":"2011-08-11T11:08:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-11T15:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/news\/?p=5840"},"modified":"2011-08-11T11:08:00","modified_gmt":"2011-08-11T15:08:00","slug":"mounties-investigate-whether-convicted-polygamist-jeffs-smuggled-young-girls-from-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/news\/2011\/08\/mounties-investigate-whether-convicted-polygamist-jeffs-smuggled-young-girls-from-canada","title":{"rendered":"Mounties investigate whether convicted polygamist Jeffs smuggled young girls from Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police are preparing to send officers to the U.S. to investigate allegations that two young girls were smuggled from Bountiful, British Columbia, to be married to the head of a polygamous sect, according to the Canadian news site The Province.<\/em><\/p>\n

Warren Jeffs, 55, leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS), was sentenced to life in prison Tuesday following his conviction in a Texas court last week for having sex with girls aged 12 and 14. Regarded as a \u201cprophet\u201d by his followers, Jeffs was conviced of assaulting\u00a0the girls at his sect\u2019s Texas ranch. He fathered a child with the older girl — and apparently had as many as 50 wives.<\/p>\n

In an affidavit filed in British Columbia’s\u00a0Supreme Court, the Ministry of the Attorney-General said it received information from a Texas prosecutor about the alleged child smuggling. The prosecutor told Canadian officials that two 12-year-old girls from Bountiful were reportedly \u201ccelestially married\u201d to Jeffs in 2005.<\/p>\n

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