She looks healthy.
Posted on 01/28/2004 12:51:29 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
A woman who was married to four men at the same time by the age of 23 was jailed for six months yesterday.
Judge Peter Thompson described Amileannya Carmichael, a part-time model, as "a very predatory female".
She repeatedly changed her name on her marriage certificate to avoid detection and left her fourth husband heartbroken after only a few months when she moved in with one of his friends.
Judge Thompson told her at Ipswich Crown Court: "It is important the public knows that marriage is upheld as an institution by the courts. Marriage is still an important component of our social fabric and it deserves respect."
The court heard that Carmichael, now 25, married for the first time in December 1996 in York, a day after her 18th birthday. Her husband was Paul Rigby, a soldier, but they split up when he was posted abroad.
In 1999 she married Sean Cunningham in Leeds and the next year took Chris Barratt in Rotherham as husband No 3. West Yorkshire police were alerted about her two unlawful marriages and she was cautioned for two offences of bigamy in August 2001.
By February the following year Carmichael had left Mr Barratt and met James Matthews on a train.
Within a month she had moved into his home in Ipswich, proposed to him and married him at St Thomas's Church, Ipswich, where he was a member of the congregation.
Michael Crimp, prosecuting, said Carmichael told Mr Matthews that she had been married twice before but that those marriages had been annulled. A week after the wedding she told him that she was still married to her third husband.
When she moved in with one of Mr Matthews's friends and rejected her husband's pleas to go back to him, he told the police that she had still been married when she married him.
Charles Riddleston, defending, said: "When she was arrested, she told officers, 'Oh yeah, I'm guilty aren't I?' She made no bones about it."
A psychiatric report showed that Carmichael had a personality disorder that made her alternate between periods of excitement and depression. Sentencing her, Judge Thompson said: "You are an attractive young woman and you might be described as a very predatory female.
"The Yorkshire police treated you as generously as they could. You could easily have been prosecuted then. You did this with your eyes open and quite clearly flouted the law."
LOL, never heard of Dave Chapelle/Chevelle but that was funny.
And if that is the case, she's a better person than the predators out there.
She looks healthy.
LOL. "Healthy?" Okay, I can agree with that. But . . . Attractive? . . . not in my part of Texas. She looks like Boy George without the goop.
,,, yes, "healthy" is a good choice of one word summary. She must have something other than looks that's worth marrying for.
She should just get 'em all together and have herself a nice Menage a quattro
Polygyny is means a man with multiple wives. Polygamy is a person with multiple mates, of either sex. Likewise, bigamy is two mates, either wives or husbands. The original root is the Greek gamos = marriage.
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