Posted on 12/30/2013 12:28:31 AM PST by Colofornian
No, actually Laura Ingalls Wilder was over 18 1/2.
Born Feb. 7, 1867; Married Aug. 25, 1885 (he was 28).
Source: Laura Ingalls Wilder
Tell us Wintertime, what do you get right? (Do you always export inaccurate opinions & play loosely with the facts?)
She writes about neighbor girls who married at 13 and 14.
Several years ago, Ansel12 posted a LOT of FR stuff showing that in the UK, the average age for a woman marrying between 1851 and 1890 was just under age 26. In New England, the average marriage age in MA 1850-1860 was age 23.6. In Vermont in 1858 it was 21.4. Two other table charts were shown in which one had the average age for 1750-1890 at about age 22 -- only dipping down below that for one decade --1870-1879 (21.7 yrs).
One other table showed the average age for women marrying in 1650 was 20; 1750, 23; 1850, 24; 1950, 20.
Now it is true that in sections of New England, more teens in late teens and early 20s started marrying around the Second Great Awakening (1790 --> early 1800s).
But whatever perceptions people have of those marrying young were simply anecdotal exceptions, and not as common as cultural myths have portrayed them...Otherwise, the avg. age of marriage would have been in the late teens...due to the fact that not as many women as today waited to marry later in 20s and 30s...
It would be interesting. These things with children tend to be sealed pretty tightly. Even if he only felt up a 16 year old, 10 days seems a bit light.
From what I posted in #38, in Idaho, anyhow: "Sexual acts, not amounting to penetration, with a minor who is less than 18 years of age but at least 16 years of age are legal in cases where the defendant is less than 5 years older than the victim.[229]"
The victim in this case was 16...if it was less than "penetration," this wouldn't have even been prosecuted in Idaho unless the perp was 21 & over.
The overwhelming ages of Lds missionaries in 2012 (when this occurred) were 19 & 20...tho some were older.
(The allowance for 18 yo didn't occur til 2013)
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BOISE – Reuben Delgadillo, a former Caldwell police officer and school resource officer, was sentenced today to serve three to 10 years in prison for felony injury to a child.
Delgadillo, 27, pleaded guilty on June 1 to one count of injury to a child. By pleading guilty, Delgadillo admitted that while serving on a school expulsion board, he developed a sexual relationship with a male student while mentoring the child, according to the Idaho Attorney General’s office.
Delgadillo was employed with the Caldwell Police Department and assigned to the Caldwell School District as a school resource officer.
Third District Judge Thomas Ryan also ordered Delgadillo to pay $5,000 in civil penalties, according to Idaho Attorney General Lawrence Wasden. The court suspended the prison sentence and retained jurisdiction for 365 days.
The Attorney General’s Special Prosecutions Unit conducted the prosecution at the request of the Canyon County Prosecutor’s Office.
“The court suspended the prison sentence and retained jurisdiction for 365 days.”
The guy was 18 or 19; the girl was 16 or 17. Stupid law.
EMMETT, Idaho - A former Emmett Police officer charged with two felonies after he police-issued gun went off injuring three people has been sentenced.
Kim Judy was in Gem County court Monday and pleaded guilty to one count of felony injury to a child. The state will recommend two years of probation and no jail time. She had been originally charged with two felonies.
Officials say a 3-year-old was handling Sgt. Kim Judy’s gun when it went off. The bullet hit the toddler, another child and their mother. All suffered minor
I guess that goes a long way in explaining why my child-molesting relative chose ID to flee to.
Not 18...crime occurred in 2012...
Lds Church didn't allow 18 yo missionaries in 2012.
Yes, there WAS a charge of sexual battery, a felony. Charges reduced to child abuse.
Here's what all likely happened:
1. Victim was a 16 yo Mormon girl.
2. If perp wasn't 21 (if he was 19 or 20), then no charges would have even been filed if no actual "penetration."
3. Because of #2, sexual battery charge WAS filed.
4. Lds bishop involved probably encouraged victim's family NOT to see this thru a trial...more embarrassment to church; perhaps not in best interest of victim; and perp would have to register the rest of his life as a sex offender.
5. Victim's family apparently agreed to that. Charges reduced to "felony injury to a child"...still a felony...still rooted in his sexual perp act...but a plea agreement.
[Jeff Head lives in Idaho & is Lds; wonder what he thinks of all this?]
The guy was at least 19. In 2012, that was the minimum age for a male LDS missionary.
No, we know the guy wasn't 18...because this occurred in 2012 & Lds church didn't allow 18 yo missionaries that year.
The guy was 18 or 19; the girl was 16 or 17. Stupid law.
There's a fair number of church-based youth workers who are 19 & 20 years old.
So, you must be one of those upstanding "moral" types who advocates for sex 'tween 19 & 20 yo church youth workers & 16/17 yo girls within the youth group, eh???
Why was I pinged?
Apparently you POed the guy on another thread.
Lots of legal opinions discussed on this thread...in case you wanted to weigh in
Or the State didn’t have evidence and offered a deal rather than loose
Where are the Danites now that we need them?
If your client is charged with a felony; and you as his attorney tells you "Nope, they don't have the evidence"...what? You tell your client to say "yes" to a felony plea deal? Really?
Well, given that the DesNews is owned by the Mormon church...and the Cedar City papers are probably owned by Mormons...guess not a real surprise.
“Where’s the hate???”
I have dealt with her before. While I am no fan of Mormonism, I have seldom seen anyone with the venom she has for the Mormons.
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