Two out of three people charged in the Bountiful polygamous sect trial have been found guilty.
Brandon Blackmore and his former wife Emily Gail Blackmore were found guilty of taking a 13-year-old girl to the United States to be a child bride.
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The court heard the girl was then married to Warren Jeffs, the former leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
James Oler was also facing charges but he was found not guilty in this case.
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Crown lawyers say in 2004 the three took young girls from Bountiful B.C. to the U.S. to be placed in plural marriages.
More to come.
-With files from The Canadian Press
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