[sneakypete]

Looks like a FBI agent would know enough about the law to know that a minor can't enter into a legal contract,and that a abductee doens't have the freedom to make a choice.
His use of the word "marriage" "mainstreams" the criminal act committed by the kidnapper. He should have said "Elizabeth became her captors slave",not his wife.

[Justice]

There was another article that said that the screen to the girl's window had been cut from the inside on the day she went missing. It is crossing my mind that the young girl may have run away on her own to go with the drifter. fourteen year olds often do really stupid things. Just a thought - no flames please I am open to correction.

[LWalk18]

Even if she was not a minor or above the age of marriage the marriage is void because he is legally married.

[blam]

"Looks like a FBI agent would know enough about the law to know that a minor can't enter into a legal contract,and that a abductee doens't have the freedom to make a choice. His use of the word "marriage" "mainstreams" the criminal act committed by the kidnapper. He should have said "Elizabeth became her captors slave",not his wife."

I heard some guy on TV say tonight that 14 year olds in Utah can legally choose and get married.

[Viva Le Dissention]

Looks like a FBI agent would know enough about the law to know that a minor can't enter into a legal contract

Not quite right. Minors can enter into legal contracts; however, the minor always has the option to disaffirm the contract if she so chooses, up until she becomes of age (in most states, the day before her 18th birthday). She can often even disaffirm after her 18th birthday, assuming she hasn't done or said anything indicating that she wishes to be bound by the contract.

So, for example, if I entered into a contract with a minor, I can't make the argument that the contract is void because the other party was a minor. The contract is perfectly valid unless the minor disaffirms it.

[Kozak]

His use of the word "marriage" "mainstreams" the criminal act committed by the kidnapper. He should have said "Elizabeth became her captors slave",not his wife.

According to the NOW Nags it's the same thing....