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To: Pikachu_Dad
By the way, she was 14 working on a wedding dress - she didn’t leave until she was 18...

So by her own admission she ‘wasn’t forced into a marriage with an older man against her will’.

Legally, her consent is irrelevant. It's called statutory rape. And if it is a polygamous "marriage", it's not a legal marriage, therefore there is no consent to be given by the parents of the minor. String the perp up with Warren, maybe they will get married to each other. Who knows?

22 posted on 05/04/2008 11:27:17 AM PDT by TheDon
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To: TheDon
Legally, her consent is irrelevant. It's called statutory rape. And if it is a polygamous "marriage", it's not a legal marriage, therefore there is no consent to be given by the parents of the minor. String the perp up with Warren, maybe they will get married to each other. Who knows?

If such an event happened.

However, by her admission, in her case, for some reason it did not.

So in this specific instance, there is no 'perp' to get yourself all lathered up about.

45 posted on 05/04/2008 6:58:42 PM PDT by Pikachu_Dad
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