Facebook has become a venue that allows friends to keep in touch, strangers to get acquainted, and old friends to rekindle their companionship. The 1 billion member social network enacts as a medium to share information about yourself and learn new things about your circle of friends. However, often times information posted on the website can ruin relationships just as quickly it can help start them, especially when a woman discovers pictures of her husband marrying another woman.
That's what happened when a woman from Washington found her husband's second wife on Facebook. The website suggested that she become friends with a woman, however when she explored that woman's Facebook page she saw a photo of her sharing a wedding cake with her husband.
"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 told the Associated Press.
"An hour later the defendant arrived at [Wife No. 1's] apartment and she asked him several times if they were divorced. The defendant said, 'No, we are still married,'" court records showed.
O'Neill allegedly told Wife No. 1 not to tell anyone about his predicament and promised that he would fix it, but she instead told the police.
The man, who happens to be a corrections officer, is facing bigamy charges for being married to two women at the same time. He married his first wife in 2001, but once they separated in 2009, neither one of them filed for divorce. Instead he legally changed his name from Alan O'Neill to Alan Fulk and married a second woman.
Because it's illegal to be simultaneously married to two people, O'Neill was placed on administrative leave from his position as a Pierce County corrections officer. He could face up to one year in jail if convicted of bigamy. He is scheduled to appear in court later this month.
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