Two men with 29 wives, 160 children convicted of polygamy, sentenced to house arrest

Tamara Walker | Asbury Park Press

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Two Canadian men found guilty of polygamy will serve a total of nine months collectively of house arrest and will also face 12 months of probation each, according to a Fox News report.

James Oler, 53, was found guilty of having five wives and sentenced to three months of house arrest, 75 hours of community service and a year of probation, according to the report.

Winston Blackmore, 61, was found guilty last year of having 24 wives and sentenced to six months of house arrest, 150 hours of community service and a year of probation, according to the report.

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The sentencing came Tuesday, according to the report.

Both of these men are leaders of a fundamentalist isolated Mormon Community, that believes in multiple marriages. The group split from the Mormon Community of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter- Day Saints which renounced polygamy in the late 19th century and disputes any connection to the fundamentalist group’s form of Mormonism, according to the report.

“I’m guilty of living my religion and that’s all I’m saying today because I’ve never denied that,” Blackmore told reporters last year after his conviction.

Blackmore has 149 children.