Bountiful BC is a Morman polygamist communitee of about 8 thousand, split right down the middle after a fall out from FBI fugitive Warren Jeffs and another prophet/leader in Canada, Winston Blackmore.

The polygamists have been in the news recently with rumours Jeffs is in Canada, a community is being planned in Saskachewan, cross border co-operation with law agencies concerned with underage trafficking of females in Canada.

For complete news background on the Warren Jeff case and his flock, building tensions in the US communities and now in Canada go to Religion News Blog.

The Tyee has been talking to the ‘Lost Boys of Bountiful’ and it is a disturbing picture.

Truman: I think it’s sick and wrong. I think my father made it look like something that was ok, but the fathers I see now really don’t take that time. He had a big family but he took care of us all. If you were in the church I would understand how it would work, but outside it would be impossible. And I wouldn’t even want to. It’s hard on the women too. Lots of them are taken away, they are told to leave their husbands, and then they just do. I had five moms; one of them got taken away and married to another man…

People like Jane Blackmore who left Bountiful and now tries to help others says more in this peice about the lack of education these boys face; the shunning, the difficult adjustments to normal society and the spiritual and psychological confusions they deal with.

Warren Jeffs
Warren Jeffs - US
Bountiful BC
Polygamists approach Canadian Media
Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints

Bountiful BC - Google News listings
Jane Blackmore
Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints - US