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Unless the laws have been changed, a child can get married in Texas with parental consent at the age of 14.

Actually, Spktyr pointed out that the laws have been changed. You have to be 16 years of age now.

Unless the husband can prove that he was "legally" married to the minor, then conjugal relations would be considered statutory rape. I dare say that NONE of these marriages were legal under Texas law.

I don't have a beef with that. I do have a beef with taking over 250 people into custody before any facts are known. It's the same problem I have with airports these days. In a recent report 104,000 people were pulled aside, detained for questioning. Yes, detained, they were not free to go. Out of this 104,000 people 9,000 were actually remanded into the custody of the police. Of these 9,000, only 700 were arrested. Is that the way it works in our nation these days? Evidently so.

If it can be proven that an adult had sexual relations with a minor, then the charge would be statutory rape, not polygamy. Further if the parents of the minor consented to the statutory rape, then they can be charged with conspiracy, and aiding and abetting and a whole host of other crimes including selling their children into slavery.

While I agree with your comments to a point, I'll have to draw the line at selling the kid into slavery. If a payoff could be confirmed, I might agree, but I'm not sure that's the case.

If they fail to prosecute these bastards, then they might as well remove all statutory rape laws from their books.

I watched the Sons of Katie Elder the other day. In one part of the movie a mob forms outside the front of the local sheriff's office. The people in the mob are convinced the sons killed the sheriff. It sure looked like they had. They hadn't. I do get a little troubled by folks willingness to take the word of authorities that have clearly stretched the reasoned laws governing warrants to the absolute breaking point in this case.

We shall see what these 'bastards' are convicted of. This may or may not be a massive pile of baked over hype. There's a familiar odor wafting over this mess.

If a payoff could be confirmed, I might agree, but I'm not sure that's the case.

Payoffs do not have to be monetary. Being granted a "spiritual blessing" from the Prophet is at least as much of an incentive to trade your child into slavery as a monetary payoff. The fact is that these parents willingly force their children into sexual relationships with old men and expect some kind of reward in exchange.

I suspect that most of what went on was that one perverted old man would trade his own 13 year old daughter for another perverted old man's 13 year old daughter. That, my friend, is slavery.

Make no mistake about it. What has been going on here is the selling and trading of human beings for sexual purposes.