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Two leaders of the racist Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (FLDS), who have followers in Boundary County, Idaho, and in nearby Bountiful, British Columbia, have been charged again with practicing polygamy.聽

Winston Kaye Blackmore, 57, and James Marion Oler, 49, were first charged in 2009, but those charges were dropped after a judge ruled a special prosecutor in the case had been hired improperly. But a judge ruled that Canada鈥檚 anti-polygamy law is valid and does not violate the group鈥檚 religious freedom, allowing the charges to be filed again last week.

The sect鈥檚 leader, Warren Jeffs, who has issued written orders to church members while serving a prison term in the United States for sexual offenses against young girls, has preached that black people are the descendants of Cain, 鈥渃ursed with black skin鈥� and selected by God to be the "servants" of white people.

Earlier this year, a jury in Phoenix returned a recordagainst the sect after concluding the twin cities of Colorado City, Ariz., and Hildale, Utah 鈥� a combined community known as 鈥淪hort Creek鈥� -- engaged in a pattern of religious discrimination and intimidation.

Now, in the newly filed indictment in Canada, Blackmore and Oler, who head different FLDS factions, are each charged with one count of polygamy. Two other members of the sect, Blackmore鈥檚 brother, Brandon Blackmore and his wife, Emily Ruth Gail Crossfield, are charged with child sex trafficking for offenses that allegedly occurred in February 2004.

The maximum penalty for both offences 鈥� polygamy and unlawful removal 鈥� is up to five years in prison.

All four are expected to make their first appearances on the charges on Oct. 9 in Provincial Court in Creston, British Columbia, where the charges were filed last Wednesday.

The charges allege polygamy and the unlawful removal of children under the age of 16 years from Canada to the United States 鈥渨ith the intention鈥� that sexual acts would be committed.

The mainstream LDS church renounced polygamy in 1890 to allow Utah to gain statehood. The church denounces the FLDS movement, even though plural marriage theology remains in its 鈥渄octrine and covenants.鈥�

A spokesman for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints told in 2009 that modern-day Mormons 鈥渉ave nothing whatsoever to do with this polygamous聽sect.鈥�

A special prosecutor in Canada began an investigation in January 2012 following an the discovery in Texas that Jeffs and his FLDS group were involved in sexual abuse of children. Evidence in the Texas case revealed 31 girls between the ages of 12 and17 were alleged to have been transported by their parents between Canada and the United States for religious marriages over a 10-year period.

Daphne Bramham, an author and columnist for the who has written extensively about the FLDS faction in Canada, wrote that Canadian investigators received copies of Jeffs鈥� dairies.

In those writings, 鈥淛effs detailed how some Bountiful men snuck their often unsuspecting daughters and sisters into the U.S. for arranged marriages and how many of the men returned with teenage American brides 鈥� with no consideration of either country鈥檚 immigration laws,鈥� Bramham wrote.

Charging documents allege Oler delivered his two underage sisters to Jeffs in 2004. The following year, after witnessing the marriage of his 15-year-old daughter in Nevada, the 41-year-old Oler 鈥渃ollected a 15-year-old bride of his own鈥� and took her from the United States back to the polygamous community called Bountiful, near Creston, B.C.

The Attorney General鈥檚 Ministry also filed documents confirming that a 13-year-old girl and two 12-year-olds from Bountiful became Jeffs鈥� brides after their parents 鈥� including Brandon Blackmore and Crossfield 鈥� delivered them to him in 2004 and 2005, Bramham wrote.