A woman who married her female partner last year without first divorcing her husband has pleaded guilty to bigamy and other charges in Virginia. Keyshana Rae Childress, 28, of Wayneboro, was sentenced to two years' probation on Tuesday. The incident is believed to the first case of bigamy resulting from someone marrying a woman without first getting divorced from a man. Prosecutors say Childress signed a marriage license last October and lied about being already married to Bobby Nicholson, 51, from Charlottesville. 'The marriage was voided because the defendant was legally married to another person,' Robert Garnett, assistant commonwealth's attorney told The News Virginian of Waynesboro.Mother-of-four Keyshana Rae Childress, 28, of Wayneboro, Virginia, was sentenced to two years' probation on TuesdayShe admitted to marrying her wife, understood to be called Karen, last year without first divorcing Bobby Nicholson, her husband of six yearsChildress was extradited from Florida in March and charged with bigamy, perjury and three misdemeanor charges of custody violationsThe incident is believed to the first case of bigamy resulting from someone marrying a woman without first getting divorced from a man
Nicholson and Childress married in 2008 and split in 2012 at which stage he said wasn’t aware that _ was attracted to women, although he now understands that that was the reason why their marriage didn’t work out.