[Porterville]

Question: If married, what does that do to the kidnapping conviction??? I don't know what is going on.

[Ciexyz]

What the hell was going on there, that a drifter that looks like Charles Manson can live in a teepee in the desert and wander the streets panhandling with two women in veils and headscarves -- and nobody investigates? Especially with a young teen girl in tow?

[sneakypete]

Question: If married, what does that do to the kidnapping conviction???

They weren't married in ANY sense of the word. That Feeb is a idiot.

[RecentConvert]

Question: If married, what does that do to the kidnapping conviction??? I don't know what is going on.

She wasn't really formally married. That was Mitchell ceremony as part of his brainwashing.

[ewing]

The age of consent is 14 in Utah.

The kidnapping still stands since they were married that night, although ater the prisoners in jail get through with the Mitchells I dont think they would want to live anymore.

Inmates don't take kindly to pedophile kidnappers.

[CharacterCounts]

Question: If married, what does that do to the kidnapping conviction??? I don't know what is going on.

It still stands and new charges under the Mann Act can be brought.

[Utah Girl]

Utah has very strict laws in regards to bigamy. Brian David Mitchell was married to Wanda Barzee, if he "married" Elizabeth in some bizarre ritual, he will just face more jail time.

[glory]

Umm..still kidnapping. I'm thinking that in the state of Utah and girl of 14/15 still needs to have her parent's consent to marry and my guess is this is not a legal marriage anyway given the fact that the guy is already married to someone else and I doubt he walked a 14 yr old in to the marriage license office and got a legal license.

[SarahW]

It makes her captors more culpable, that's what it does.

Whatever Beetlejuice bride scenario Mitchell and Barzee cooked up, it's not an actual marriage, for G*s sake.