BY:DILLON TRENT

Bigamy

My Thesis

People should be allowed to follow their hearts and their religion. It says so in the 1st amendment of the Bill of Rights.

If someone decides to have more than one wife or husband then that is their decision.

Information

Bigamy is when you are legally married to more than one person at the same time.

The root word “bi” means two but it does not only mean two mates.

There are two types of bigamist, the dishonest bigamist and the honest bigamist.

The dishonest bigamist’s wives to not know about each other.

Honest bigamist’s wives know about each other and accept it.

Laws

A single count of Bigamy is charged against an accused bigamist for each of his secondary wives.

For example, if a man has 3 wives, he would be charged with two counts of bigamy.

In the commonwealth of Virginia bigamy is a felony and is not terribly common throughout the state.

Locally Charged Man

A Fairfax man named Charles Edward Hicks, 61, was charged about 5 years ago with bigamy and had to go in front of the grand jury.

Mr. Hicks will be charged on 2 accounts of bigamy.

Mr. has two wives, but has been married 7 times.

Three of his marriages took place while he was legally married to someone else.

Sister Wives

Sister wives is a hit show on TLC.

Kody Brown is 41 years old and is the husband to the 4 sister wives.

He has a total of 13 kids that are his, plus 3 step children that his wife Robyn brought into the marriage.

The little town that they were from was a pretty common place for bigamy.

Then they moved to Las Vegas and it was looked down upon.

Bigamy in Utah is fairly common through most parts of the state.

Meri is the only one legally married to Kody Brown.

They have been married 20 years. Meri and Kody have one kid together. She was his first wife but she knew

that he would add more into the mix at some point.

Meri was fired from her job after the show started airing and her boss seen her lifestyle.

Kody and his 2nd wife Janelle have 6 children together.

Janelle was best friends with meri that’s how she got to know Kody.

She works full time and supports the family with her large paycheck.

Christine is the 3rd wife to Kody. Christine just gave birth to the

youngest of all the children, and her name is truely.

Her and Kody have 6 children together.

She is the stay at home mom who does most of the cooking and taking care of the kids

Robyn is the 4th wife to Kody. Robyn came into the marriage with 3

of her own kids, this upset Kody and the other 3 wives.

Sister Wives Coummunity

People in their new neighborhood don’t particularly care for the marriage.

Many of the neighbors are speaking out that they do not like having to explain this lifestyle to their children

Utah Bigamy Compound Busted Tom Green is 52 years old and has 5

wives and 29 children. He lives with his family in a remote

compound in the Utah Desert.

Tom Green faces up to 25 years in prison, and 25,000 $ in fines.

He was charged with 4 counts of bigamy and one on failing to pay child support.

Green married all 5 of his wives, some were young as 14.

3 of his wives are pregnant right now.

His 5 wives includes 2 sets of sisters. All his wives eventually divorced him

for wellfare but they all still lived with him.

Religion

Mr. Green is a fundamentalist Mormon. And he said that having several wives was a god given choice.

He argued that it was his constitutional right to follow the religion he wanted.

After being prosecuted, Green vowed to continue his lifestyle.

He didn’t serve any time he just paid a fine and had to divorce all his wives.

Bigamy

By Dillon Trent