[bbfan1991]

An American man has been charged with bigamy after Facebook suggested his first wife become friends with his second, exposing his crime.

Alan L O'Neill, a Pierce County corrections officer, married a woman in 2001, but left her in 2009. The couple never divorced.

O'Neill, previously known as Alan Fulk, changed his name in December 2011 and remarried later that month, The News Tribune reports.

His first wife discovered he had remarried after Facebook detected both women's connection to O'Neill and suggested they become friends. She clicked on wife number two's profile, discovered wedding photographs and called his mother.

Prosecutor Mark Lindquist said: "An hour later the defendant arrived at [wiife number one's] apartment, and she asked him several times if they were divorced. The defendant said, 'No, we are still married'."

He then allegedly asked her to keep quiet, but she alerted the authorities.

O'Neill, 41, has been placed on administrative leave after prosecutors charged him on Thursday, March 8. He must attend court on March 22 to answer the felony charge.

"It's not the crime of the century, but it is a crime," Lindquist said.

Serves him right.

[Shaun]

What a moron.

[Black Dagger]

dickhead

[Kizzy]

Oh dear....see what a terrible institution marriage is?

[Shaun]

yeah, still shouldn't let gays violate it!

[Locke.]

What a stupid law

[GypsyGoth]

He should have got life in prison.

[Benjamin]

I look at my grandparents and think they have had an amazing marriage, then I look at the rest of the world and I wonder, why bother?

[Kizzy]

Im so anti marriage right now, its getting ridiculous..There are 2 wedding in my family this summer costing £15,000 each!
Why....When did love become so expensive? (yes, im aware how lame that sounds)

[Samuel.]

Tbf they had broke up before his second marriage, just without getting officially divorced. It's not as if he was stringing them both along at the same time.

Not to say he wasn't a bit of an idiot not to sort it out beforehand though.

[Brother Leon]

I'm gonna have four wives.

Come at me law

[Kizzy]

Divorce can be an expensive business...

[Me. I Am Salman]

Lol!!

[Marsh.]

Originally Posted by kizzy

Im so anti marriage right now, its getting ridiculous..There are 2 wedding in my family this summer costing £15,000 each!
Why....When did love become so expensive? (yes, im aware how lame that sounds)

Too right. Even people who do get married should just pop down to the registry office or have a quick service in church, I don't see the need for expensive flowers that get thrown away, clothes you'll never wear again. Just a con.

But, does this mean the guy still had his first wife listed as "married" in his account? What an idiot.

[Kizzy]

Its become competative, nicer dress, invites, better venue, organic chicken with a salpicon of mushrooms...
ffs

[Ammi]

...It's always amusing on Jerry Springer, when the ladies are fighting over these men and they come out...and they're butt ugly....I bet he's really ugly with no teeth..you have to wonder what it is that they have got going for them...certainly not intelligence or charm