ALBERT LEA, Minn. (AP) — A man in Freeborn County is charged with bigamy for having two wives.
Prosecutors say 41-year-old Wayne Allen DeMay married Constance Ann Flim in May 2010 even though he was still married to Brigette Ann Beaumont, whom he married in 2003.
When DeMay's first wife in Red Creek, N.Y., wanted to remarry she tracked down her husband in Minnesota. She told authorities she hadn't heard from him since he left 26 days after they were married in 2003. She provided authorities in Freeborn County with legal documents of her marriage to DeMay.
The Albert Lea Tribune (http://bit.ly/xTDCEa ) says the rare charge of bigamy carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $10,000 fine if convicted.
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Information from: Albert Lea Tribune, http://www.albertleatribune.com
Copyright 2012 The Associated Press.
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I hope my wives don't see this article.
2 wives
Good Lord----who in their right mind would want 2 of them
Isn't the discrimination??
Why should there be a law against bigamy, aren't we fighting for marriage between anybody? If a man on man marriage is ok then why not man on woman on woman?
I agree Lifelongresident
I agree Lifelongresident
because...
Because there is a difference between a union between 2 consenting adults and a union of 3 or more unaware adults. That's why. In the case of this guy, the 2nd wife didn't know about the 1st wife, and the 1st wife didn't even know where the guy was. Hardly consensual.
It's one thing for a man to marry another man (or a woman to marry another woman) and get for that person the same spousal privileges and benefits that heterosexual married couples receive. And it is quite another for a man to marry several individuals and expect them ALL to receive those benefits. Can you imagine how that would work with family health insurance plans, or medical decisions in a hospital? It would be a mess and expensive. That is something that needs to be thought out and worked out before going down the road to legalize plural marriage.
That said, I really don't care if men want to marry more than one woman if they are ALL mutually OK with it. But like someone said, why WOULD a man want more than one wife?
Thanks to 'rvan' and 'cyclerod48'
...for starting my day with a smile.
But surely the alleged bigamist has an airtight insanity defense -- as Albert Einstein said, the definition of insanity is "doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
Shouldn't his penalty
be he has to live with both wives? See if he or anyone who knows him ever does that again!
why WOULD a man want more than one wife?
why WOULD a man want more than one wife?
In this case it seems like
why WOULD a man want more than one wife?
In this case, it looks like our intrepid friend wasn't happy with his first wife, so he just took a hike. Maybe he thought it worked a little like what happens when you don't pay the phone bill!
He'll probably get a slap on the wrist; its not looking like he willfully set out to defraud anyone.
Okey, I agree partially
While in this case there may have been no consenting between the 3 involved, that is not to say that those that practice polygamy and bigamy are not always on the same page. And llr is right that if you give the gays the same rights as heterosexuals, you can hardly deny those same rights to others; at that point gays would be cherry picking who can join them in their quest for legality. In the case of the article above, I would imagine some lawyer is going to ask the first wife why did you not get an annulment, why did you wait so long, and why would you still be married to someone who walked away after 26 days.