Posted on 01/18/2011 2:58:00 PM PST by T Minus Four
LEHI — A polygamous Lehi family featured on the reality show "Sister Wives" has moved to Nevada.
Kody Brown, his four wives and 16 children left Utah to pursue new opportunities, said their attorney Jonathan Turley.
Meanwhile, the Utah County Attorney's Office has to date not filed criminal charges against the Browns after Lehi police investigated them on suspicion of bigamy. Utah County Attorney Jeff Buhman did not immediately return a telephone call seeking comment.
Utah County did consult with the Utah Attorney General's Office, which has said it doesn't have the resources to go after polygamists unless it suspects crimes such as child abuse or child trafficking. But it leaves that decision to local jurisdictions.
The Browns moved without any charges pending, Turley said.
"In the past, state officials have made it clear to polygamous families in Utah that they would not proceed against them absent evidence of some collateral crime such as child abuse," he said. "No such crimes were found in the Brown family after an extensive field investigation."
Lehi police launched the investigation last September as the program made its debut on TLC. They turned their findings over to the Utah County attorney to determine whether charges are warranted based on the state's unique bigamy law.
It reads: "A person is guilty of bigamy when, knowing he has a husband or wife or knowing the other person has a husband or wife, the person purports to marry another person or cohabits with another person."
The law applies not just to people who have obtained multiple marriage licenses but also to those who are legally married to only one person while engaging in other marriage-like relationships.
Turley said he sees no legal reason why the Browns cannot live and thrive in Nevada as they have in Utah.
"They have highly successful children who have been raised in a loving household," he said. "Since they have not sought recognition of plural marriages and have not been charged with any crime, there is no legal impediment to their relocation to Nevada or other states."
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I guess each has her specific “function”.
Maybe he can move next to the Bunny Ranch to get his fix of women.
Really? I wonder if they're aware that we lead in unemployment...foreclosures...
The top left in red looks like the cook, the top right looks like one who takes care of the children, the bottom right looks like the book keeper and the bottom left looks like his booty call.
Hey, they're saving at least three mortgage payments.
I’ve seen the commercials for it but refused to watch. Who the heck cares where they move to.
How much are they taking in from the government? 16 children?
Cody is going to drive to Nevada in a gold plated cadillac, fuzzy dice hanging in the mirror and government checks in his wallet.
Actually, he and several of his women friends or whatever have jobs (I think he does rather well in sales), and some stay home with everyone’s kids or somesuch. If it works for them, why the hell should you and I care? Better that than orphans, latchkey kids, foster children. It’s illegals driving the proverbial Cadillacs/F-250s that I have problems with.
Look at those tense, unhappy faces. You don’t get that kind of distention in the neck and droopy eyes just from occasional stress and misery: it’s constant.
I have no idea if he is married to any of them or not. I watched part of one episode for the same reason one stares at an accident scene as you drive by, and living in Utah, it’s a current event.
Joey Smith would have moved to Nevada with them...
In 2011 Joey Smith would have been ex-communicated from the mormon organization...
for practicing mormonism...that polygamy part...
He wouldnt have gotten a temple recommend for some of the other reasons either...
the biggy...not tithing...
stealing, murder, adultery,
the honesty in your dealings part etc...
Being nice to fellow mormons part...
and so on...
I’d MUCH rather have a polygamist family living next door to me than the “alleged” drug dealers who have more visiting “friends” than a brand-new Powerball winner and make more noise than the monkey house at the Omaha zoo.
He must have one hell of a sales pitch to marry all those women and keep the first wife from choking him.
a couple of them work full time to support him and his kids...
Selfish and disgusting.
What is wrong with the women? We already know there’s something wrong with the guy.
Out of curiosity I watched one episode last year, the first wife seemed tormented by the whole polygamy thing. I felt sorry for her.
Is anyone here going to tell me that Willard actually tithes ten percent of his GROSS income every year and is therefore not a “Jack Mormon?” Hahahahaha! How do they audit that?
Before the law files charges against this man hey should arrest half of the NBA.
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