Woman loses custody to ‘sister wife’

Anti-polygamy activists fear kids will go to father ST. GEORGE — Tamara Phelps, a woman who fled her polygamous marriage 10 years ago, leaving her children behind, would not answer the phone or the door at her Cedar City home Wednesday afternoon. After eight months of having her children back with her, she lost the custody battle last week — this time to her spiritual husband’s first and legal wife, Amy Black, according to 5th District Justice Court documents obtained by The Spectrum from an anti-polygamy group, Help the Child Brides of St. George. Judge Hans Q. Chamberlain in Cedar