Editing Placement marriage (section)

=== Legal conflicts ===

==== Incest and child marriages ====
Instances such as this can lead to problems with the law.  One man in a small group of Mormon fundamentalists called the Latter Day Church of Christ, founded by [[Charles W. Kingston]], was recently{{when?|date=June 2017}} "convicted of incest with teenage wives amid allegations of forced marriages and child abuse".<ref name="Driggs">Driggs, Ken. “Imprisonment, Defiance, and Division: A History of Mormon Fundamentalism in the 1940s and 1950s.” Dialogue 38, (2005):65-95</ref> Child marriages in the past have been common in certain areas. In the one community, young girls were marrying as young as 14 years old.<ref name="Bennion">Bennion Janet. ''Women of Principle''. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.</ref>

==== Kidnapping ====
During the 1944 raid some members were charged with kidnapping and violations of the [[Mann Act]] in connection with taking under-age plural wives across state lines. Fifteen men were prosecuted for unlawful cohabitation with their plural wives and were then sentenced to serve time in the Utah State Prison; nine more were sentenced to federal prison time. [[Charles Zitting]] and David Darger were charged with both federal and state sentences.<ref name="Driggs"/>