A father of Indiana and his daughter got married so that she could secretly collect his monthly veteran payments, according to judicial documents.
Authorities in the Hoosier -state say that Bradley McCollom, 59, and his daughter Kimberley Tempel, 44, made the decision last July.
According to Wpta, Temple lied about their application for wedding permit and said she was not married and claimed that her father was not closer than a second cousin.
Court reports that are seen by the outlet indicate that she had completed a divorce when the two married last year, with McCollom currently behind bars for conditional violation.
Temple also claimed that McCollom was not a sex or violent perpetrator, but he has a federal indictment of child pornography on his file dating from 2008.
McCollom's sister announced the police about the marriage and said that Temple and McCollom falsified the marriage so that she could obtain his monthly payment of $ 350.
The family member also gave documentation to the authorities she obtained from a DNA service that showed the chance that he was her father as '99 .999999 “percent.
Authorities in the Hoosier -state say that Bradley McCollom, 59, and his daughter Kimberley Temple, to be seen here, have imposed the knot in July
The sister also told investigators that the two were alienated when McCollom went to the federal prison.
They started to communicate while he was locked up through letters and e -mails, add the court documents.
Although he was alienated, it is said that Temple had aware of her all her life that McCollom was her father.
Temple was taken into custody for accusation of the provision of false information about an application for a wedding permit.
She is also accused of crime attempt at bigamy, The action of getting married to someone while they are already married. Since then she has been released.
Sheriff spokesperson for Vanderburgh County, Anthony Ausslinger, said: “The biggest problem was with regard to their real relationship.
“They both answered the question that they were not closely related, which was later determined as false.
“Those were some of the problems that came up with the falsification of the marriage application.”
Temple was taken in custody on accusation of the provision of false information about an application for a wedding permit
Court reports that are seen by the outlet indicate that she had completed a divorce when the two married last year. She sees her with her ex-husband Shaun Temple
Outlet Weht reported on Wednesday that someone had contacted them with knowledge of the case and said that Tempel and McCollom were not a father and daughter.
They said that the person presented documentation of a DNA center that claimed that he had to show McCollom, was not her father.
The outlet said: “We have not been able to verify these claims so far and wait to hear for more information.”
According to Indiana's law, two people cannot get married if they are more closely related to those second cousins.
However, some exceptions are present, with people who are cousins ​​and can both get married at least 65 years old.
