Former couple guilty in polygamy case

A former couple from the polygamous community of Bountiful, B.C., have been found guilty of taking a 13-year-old girl into the United States to marry Warren Jeffs, the now imprisoned leader of the sect that practises plural marriage.

Justice Paul Pearlman of B.C. Supreme Court found former husband and wife Brandon Blackmore and Gail Blackmore guilty of the charge of taking a girl across the border for a sexual purpose in 2004.

He found James Oler not guilty of the same charge.

The Blackmores will be sentenced April 13.