CANADA
The Vancouver Sun
By Daphne Bramham, Vancouver Sun
January 10, 2012
Nearly a year after lawyers in the B.C. attorney-general’s minis-try learned the details of how a father from Bountiful delivered his 13-year-old daughter into a forced, polygamous marriage with the now-jailed prophet of a fundamentalist Mormon sect, Attorney-General Shirley Bond has instructed that a special prosecutor be appointed to look into the evidence.
Among the charges the prosecutor may consider are human trafficking, child sexual exploitation, sexual assault and procurement.
It’s welcome news. Still, one can’t help wonder why it’s taken so long.
The evidence has been kicking around since September 2008. That’s when a team leader in the B.C. Ministry of Children and Family Development got a fax from Texas following a raid on the compound built by Prophet Warren Jeffs.
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