Posted on 02/16/2009 7:06:35 AM PST by markedmannerf
Video at the link.....
(CNN) — A California man sold his 14-year-old daughter to an 18-year-old man for cash, beer and meat — then called police when the prospective bridegroom didn’t live up to his end of the deal, authorities said Tuesday.
Marcelino de Jesus Martinez faces felony charges, according to police in Greenfield, California.
Marcelino de Jesus Martinez, 36, of Greenfield, California, was arrested Monday and booked into the Monterey County Jail, Greenfield police said in a statement. He faces felony charges of receiving money for causing a person to cohabitate, police said.
Martinez had arranged through a third party to have his daughter marry the older teenager, identified by authorities as Margarito de Jesus Galindo, of Gonzales, California. In exchange, Galindo was to pay Martinez $16,000 and provide him with 160 cases of beer, 100 cases of soda, 50 cases of Gatorade, two cases of wine, and six cases of meat, Greenfield Police Chief Joe Grebmeier told CNN.
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Just shows how much of a different culture we have and yet another reason while we can not live together peacefully.
Old news - at least a month old.
I thought only third world countries needed such laws.
This story broke 6 weeks ago....
What brand of beer?
Wait... so then, What is a Dowry?
And who says it’s not right to sell people?
Honestly, have these people ever been bought or sold?
[/sarc] (Do I REALLY need to put that?)
Mexican “national.” I guess that means he is either a member of the Mexican ligation at the UN, or an ILLEGAL ALIEN. Darned if I know which.
Based on the story content, I'd say Arrogant Bastard. However, it's more likely to be Tecate in cans.
“Stay thirsty, my friend!”
The democrats must be angry that he didn’t sell her to them.
A couple of more details. These people don’t even speak Spanish, they speak an indigenous language from southern Mexico, and had to have special translators for the court proceedings. In other words, Third World peons from a Stone Age culture. Second, one of the earlier stories said that the father was subject to deportation. I would be willing to bet that we are dealing with and paying for a bunch of illegal aliens.
My daughter was sweet when she was 14, but by the time she got to be fifteen I would not only have been thrilled to get $16000 in cash, beer, and meat for her, I would have paid someone to take her. No point, though—they would have returned her and asked for a refund.
Fortunately she grew out of it and now, in her early twenties, is back to being sweet as pie.
Exactly. It is sad that our country has gone to this all-time low.
Isn’t multiculturalism grand? /s
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