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With that out of the way, Blackmore’s trial will go ahead along with that of James Oler, who is also charged with one count of polygamy. A date has yet to be set for that trial.

But Oler will be in the Cranbrook courtroom on Tuesday, Nov. 22 charged along with Brandon James Blackmore and one of his wives, Emily Ruth Gail Crossfield Blackmore.

All three face the more serious criminal charge of taking children under the age of 16 out of Canada for illegal purposes. Conviction carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison.

(In November 2005, the Criminal Code section was amended and it is now referred to as the child trafficking law.)

The charge information alleges that Oler took a child (referred to as C.E.O.) into the United States in June 2004 “with the intention of facilitating an act that would be an offence in Canada.”

Brandon and Gail Blackmore are accused of taking a child (known as M.M.B.) into the United States for illegal purposes in February 2004.

All three defendants are members or former members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. At least some of the evidence that is likely to be called during the 14-day trial was also used at FLDS prophet Warren Jeffs’s trial in Texas in 2011 when he was convicted on two counts of sexual assault of children. The charges related to his “marriage” to two girls aged 12 and 15.

Jeffs did extensive, daily dictations that detailed everything from his stray thoughts to the names and places of so-called celestial marriages to the directions given to parents about clandestine routes and precautions to be taken so that they would not be discovered transporting under-aged brides who were to be sealed in religious marriages in various sites across North America.