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CRANBROOK, B.C. — A former husband and wife from the polygamous community of Bountiful, B.C., are going to jail for taking a 13-year-old girl into the United States to marry the now-imprisoned leader of their sect.

A B.C. Supreme Court judge has sentenced Brandon Blackmore to a year in jail, while his ex-wife, Gail Blackmore, has been handed a term of seven months.

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Both have been ordered to serve 18 months’ probation.

The pair were found guilty in February of the charge of taking a child under the age of 16 out of Canada for sexual purposes.

“In my view a term of imprisonment is warranted in this case,” Justice Paul Pearlman said during Friday’s sentencing.

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Their trial heard the girl was taken into the United States in 2004 to marry Warren Jeffs, the prophet of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, who is now serving a life sentence for assaulting two of his child brides.