A Washington man has been
charged with bigamy after Facebook revealed he was married to two different
women, unbeknownst to either of them.
Guess someone needs to up
his privacy settings.
Alan O'Neill, a
41-year-old state corrections officer, married a woman in 2001, separated from
her eight years later, changed his name and remarried.
The two wives revealed
O’Neill’s deception when - you guessed it - they both noticed the other one as
a “friend” on their husband’s Facebook profile.
"Wife No. 1 went to
wife No. 2's page and saw a picture of her and her husband with a wedding
cake," Pierce County Prosecutor Mark Lindquist said.
O’Neill’s first wife then
called and confronted the mother of wife No. 2.
"An hour later the
defendant arrived at [the original wife's] apartment, and she asked him several
times if they were divorced," court records show.
"The defendant at
that point said, 'No, we are still married.'"
With his deception
revealed, O’Neill
allegedly asked his first wife to not alert authorities to the
bigamy, which is illegal under federal and state laws.
However, she went ahead
and reported his duplicity.
The accused was previously
known as Alan Fulk and currently works as a Pierce County corrections officer,
sheriff's spokesman Ed Troyer said.
He was placed on leave
from his job after being charged with bigamy, and officials say O’Neill faces
up to a year in jail if convicted of that offense.
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