then other folks here claim anything under 18 is a crime and child abuse.
me personally I'd say 16 with parents consent which obviously is a given in this group
but I don't think 14 year olds marrying is pedophilia....distasteful but not pedophilia....it would be pederasty actually I think perhaps.
my great grandfather married my great grandfather at 14. he was 19.
that is the age difference Jeffs sanctioned and for which he got 10 years Fed time is it not?
I don't have all the answers here but i am sure learning more than I ever figured about something I never knew about
I have no doubt that 75 years ago the ages stuff while raising eyebrows would hardly have raised the howls.
Course this Jessop lady raises real abuse questions on 8 year olds and child abuse and folks wonder about incest overlaps?
hell if I know but if arranged marriages and polygamy are cause enough then we better get ready...fair number of folks do that....claims are there are 30,000 polys in that area of Utah/Nevada
Okay, the violation of child labor laws young boys as labor to underbid contracts, the “spiritual marriage” of underage females to already legally married much older males, the use of those “breeders” to collect welfare to “unwed mothers,” the confusion (or ignorance) about who is whose child (designed to obfuscate child sexual abuse in the very young teens, imho), the high incidence of a birth defect virtually unknown in the rest of the world due to inbreeding—all those things make the investigation very valid and worthwhile in my opinion.
I’m willing to wait for the results of the DNA tests to find out what’s going on. I don’t expect the biological fathers to have stuck around to get prosecuted, though, I think they’re long gone, replaced by others; again, my opinion.
I think the judge is doing the right thing in these cases.
And I’m just about done with the discussion. Apparently the same talking points are being used by all those supporting the “reasonable live-and-let-the-polyg-sects-live-position, over and over, with no acknowledgement of even reading the other side’s numerous links showing the massive serious problems uncovered at other sect locations.