Kent Hovind must be a real asshole — he keeps driving women away. Here’s a brief history of his brief ‘marriages’:
He was married to his first wife Jo Hovind from 1973 and they stayed together until their divorce in March of 2016.
He then ‘married’ Mary Tocco in September 2016, though no sexual adultery had taken place in his former marriage, making him an adulterer. They did not get a marriage license and instead entered into a public, legally recognizable common-law marriage.
However, in Alabama at the time, the state did not recognize “common-law-divorces” that can be entered and exited willy-nilly, but rather in order to legally end the marriage, they would have to undergo a formal divorce process, the same as if entered into a traditional marriage. To quote Robert Baty “Legal common-law marriages cannot be dissolved except by legal process, not by hand-waiving.”
But that’s exactly what he did. While still legally married to Mary Tocco, Kent Hovind waived his hands and declared the marriage dissolved in 2017.
Feeling restless and on the prowl, he got ‘married’ again in 2018, this time to Cindy Lincoln. This was done in the same sort of private ceremony.
However, after his first common-law marriage, Alabama changed its laws, so that the state no longer recognized any new common-law marriages as legally binding.
Following this pattern, his new ‘marriage’ to Lincoln did not last long, and he cut ties with her in 2020 by ‘divorcing her’ ie another wave of his hand. Though they publically presented themselves as married up to this point and consummating the relationship, the law treated this basically as a boyfriend and girlfriend breaking up, given the ‘marriage’ was invalid in the first place.
It is this third ‘wife’ that took an order of protection against the disgraced creationist, claiming that he physically abused her by ‘body-slamming her’ and has engaged in a pattern of psychological torture, resulting in him being sentenced to 30 days in jail for domestic violence.
Then in September of 2021, he ‘married’ a 4th ‘wife’, Sandra Sawyer, in another private covenant/ common-law ceremony. Like the ‘marriage’ before, the state does not recognize this marriage, and so legally he is still married to his second wife.
The saga will have to be updated, because it seems that #4, Sandra Sawyer, has now left him.
I hope the women around him are waking up to this and that there is no #5.
I should mention that his longest marriage to Jo ended after Hovind was convicted of tax fraud and sent to prison, dragging her down with him. Jo Hovind was convicted of 45 counts of structuring and was sent to prison herself for a year. Don’t get involved with Kent!
Not the point of the story, but “hand-waiving”???
Does he not have hands anymore? Because he “waived” them?
How does he sign his multitude of marriage licenses with no hands?
Spelling and homonyms: how do they work?
Two things are universal: hydrogen and stupidity.
<sarcasm> Ol’ Kent is obviously following the wrong religion. He needs to try Wahhabist Islam, instead: If a man says to one of his wives, in the presence of the imam, “I divorce you” three times, he’s done it!
Or maybe summons Beetlejuice. I’m a bit hazy on these supernatural things.