A charge has been stayed for a woman who testified that she was tortured, beaten and burned in the months before her housemate's body was found in a barrel behind their Winnipeg home.

The Browns claim the bigamy law infringes on their right to freedom of speech and religion.

“I did not see it coming… I thought I knew my daughter, I didn’t,” said Meri Brown.

Polygamy is once again illegal in the state of Utah, which is bad news for the 'Sister Wives' Brown family.