Tom Green (polygamist)

American Mormon fundamentalist (1948–2021)

Thomas Arthur Green (June 9, 1948 – February 28, 2021) was an American Mormon fundamentalist in Utah who was a practitioner of plural marriage. After a high profile trial, Green was convicted by the state of Utah on May 18, 2001, of four counts of bigamy and one count of failure to pay child support. This decision was upheld by the Utah State Supreme Court in 2004. He was also convicted of child rape, on the basis that he had impregnated his wife Linda when she was 13. The wife in question was his stepdaughter before they were married; she was the daughter of his first polygamous wife. In total, he served six years in prison and was released in 2007.

Green was raised as a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints (LDS Church). He served as a Mormon missionary in the church's Great Lakes Mission (Indiana and Michigan) from June 1967 to June 1969. In the 1980s, while in his thirties, Green left the LDS Church and converted to a type of Mormon fundamentalism, which teaches that its adherents should practice plural marriage. (The LDS Church stopped allowing polygamy in the 1890s.) He eventually took seven wives. alleged that Green married teenagers, divorced them, and then collected the welfare payments they received as "single mothers" while he continued living with them. and some international media coverage. His other wives also all refused to testify against him. Green was released from prison on parole on August 7, 2007.

Green and his lifestyle were the subject of the British made documentary One Man, Six Wives and Twenty Nine Children in 2000, at the New York International Documentary Film Festival.

Green died from COVID 19 pneumonia in Salt Lake City at age 72 during the COVID 19 pandemic in Utah. tags and the tag below >