Hundreds of Missouri teens may have married their rapists

[quote] "[italic]Missouri is a destination wedding spot — for 15-year-old brides[/italic]"

[quote] "[italic]She’s 15 and married: ‘What’s the point of making her wait?’ mom says[/italic]"

I hope these parents die a painful death. Deplorables don't even pretend anymore, their culture is a culture of debauchery and moral decay.

Fake headline. The cases are teens who want to get married, asking and receiving their parents' approval.

White trash problems.

Are they knocked up? By their boyfriends?

It's the Christian way of doing things.

R3:

"From 1999 to 2015, more than 1,000 15-year-olds married in Missouri. Of those, The Star’s review of data shows, more than 300 married men age 21 or older, with some in their 30s, 40s and 50s. Assuming they had premarital sex, those grooms would be considered rapists."

All the cases mentioned are 15-year-old girls.

Were any 15-year-old boys married off under this law?

That area between Alabama and Missouri must be the pedo capital of the US.

Maybe, but it's definitely a religious-conservative hub. Which means no sex education in the schools, birth control and abortion are hard to come by, it's poor, the schools suck, and everyone is expected to get married and live the kuche-kirche-kinder lifestyle.

And if a girl gets pregnant out of wedlock, she can expect her family to abandon her and her baby. That's what's really going on here with these teenage shotgun weddings, the parents are giving her to the guy who knocked her up consensually or not, and saying she's his problem from now on.

It's not rape-rape.

When I worked with special needs kids in Kansas, one family sent their special needs 15yo daughter to Missouri to get married to a 30-something guy. They were so fucking creepy. Many of our kids were from families where everyone was pretty dim -- not "retarded" necessarily, but everyone had an IQ of roughly 70-75, could usually hold a job, but didn't quite understand basic concepts, had trouble driving because of not fully grasping road rules and regulations, etc. Her family was like that.

In retrospect I realize her family (and the few others we had) were the Deplorable base. Seriously. They're the people who are sending their girls to Missouri to get married.

I should also note that the local paper wrote a whole story about my student, where they clearly took advantage of her being special needs and just turned the whole piece into gossip about her health, mental status, sex life, etc. It was fucking VILE. Clearly the paper just wanted to gossip; very few in town actually CARED that this mentally disabled girl basically was being sold off as a sex slave to a creep twice her age.

But yeah, those of you who don't live in the Midwest or amongst Deplorables? You have no idea what it's like. Absolute trash, and they cannot be reasoned with or made to behave. Little unruly toddlers, the lot of them.

My god R13. what a grim and sad future . I can't believe these are the people holding the rest of the country hostage. How can we educate people that are so morally broken and possibly mentally unfit?

Time to bomb America to bring them some freedom.

Back in the dark ages when I was in HS, my friend's brother impregnated his 14 year old gf. The night before the gf's 15th birthday, she, her parents and her bf jumped into the car and drove down to Maryland where they were married the next day.

What a way to end your childhood.

[quote] How can we educate people that are so morally broken and possibly mentally unfit?

We can't.

The only thing we can do is hope African Americans rise up and demand an end to the electoral college because it was based on slavery. White people cant get rid of it. .

You can't, R14.

That's why I quit teaching, honestly. Any attempt we made to try to improve bad situations was thwarted either by the state BoE or ignorant parents or, in one case, a probation officer who liked strutting around a junior high school with his gun out and grabbing his crotch every so often.

I look back on it and wonder why I didn't realize we were completely fucked as a nation before. The things these parents did to their kids, and the complicity of other adults around them... astonishing.

I felt so badly for this one stepfather who had a kid who would lie about pretty much everything. He would very literally say "I don't have a pencil!" when he was visibly holding a pencil, things like that. At 12, he was sexually harassing girls in class, and calling kids "retards" and "f*ggots" etc. The stepfather and mother had tried everything and nothing worked. "What happens when he's an adult? When he can drive and vote? What then?" is what he said to us.

Whelp, he becomes a Deplorable. And he is, according to Facebook.

15 year olds can get married in Hawaii, Kansas and, as R16 said, Maryland.

What’s with the cryptic red writing that’s appearing on random threads on DL?

It's the Deep State, R20

R17 study history more. The electoral college was founded so we do not have political dynasties like the way the Clintons, Bushes, and Obamas would love to have, and so states with the largest population do not solely decide who becomes elected President.

There are actually several states where a person can marry underage with parental permission, including a handful where there’s no age restriction at all.

America y’all got some cleaning up in your own backyard to do before you invade other countries for freedom (i.e resources).

Okay, R23, which states have no age restrictions on marriage?

Florida?

These are the same people who complained about Call Me By Your Name

It would be nice of the Star and OP were more honest about what they're talking about. It's not about rape, it's about girls getting pregnant through sex with their boyfriends or guys they know, and their parents do what unfortunately has been done for millennia -- you make them get married. It's a stupid and harmful practice, but it's not "Hey, this guy jumped out of the bushes and raped my little girl, let's git them hitched." That's what the headline implies.

R24 Check our the wiki article on child marriage in the United States.

So much for the shining city upon this hill.

WTF how is r26 a troll? I was thinking the same thing!

R24, Florida's minimum age for marriage is 17. As R27 said, you can find the info on Wikipedia. Surprisingly, California and Massachusetts have no age restrictions for marriage.

Dumb law - a twentysomething guy can't have sex with a teen girl.....unless he marries her, then it's okay!

Yeah, the overriding concern there seems not to be about their 15-year-old getting knocked up, just her getting knocked up before marriage.

What's interesting in TN they want child marriages with some brides (legally all children but let's get real--it's mostly girls) as young as 10-13 being married if gay adults are allowed to get married, but wouldn't that also mean a 40 year old man could get married to a 13 year old boy if his parents said yes? They're basically making their biggest fear come true because they want to marry 13 year old girls.

^ That's it, I'm moving to Tennessee!

R23 and yet in other countries we want to invade or have invaded, we have girls who are 8-12 marrying much older wealthy men because Mohammad did this.

The electoral college was founded in order to give slave holding states a falsely high population by counting slaves as 3/5ths of a human, even though they couldn't vote. The sooner that shit is gone, the better.

87% of minors who are married are female. Only 13% are male.

And I guarantee you 99% of those 13% are getting married to other minors, not 21+ year old women.

The minimum legal age of marriage in Afghanistan and Iraq is 16 and 18 respectively r35. Try again.

Republicans frequently oppose bills outlawing child marriage because they want to prevent "out of wedlock" pregnancies (even though people who marry very young usually get divorced, anyway)

Nice revisionist history R36.

R39, so? That does not mean that child marriages and child sex abuse do not happen in those countries.

They have been going on in the Islamic world for centuries, and are still going on today.

grrrr

[quote]They have been going on in the Islamic world for centuries, and are still going on today.

Unlike the Christian world, where child abuse is only happening NOW, because of immigrant n̶o̶n̶-̶w̶h̶i̶t̶e̶s̶ Muslims!

Shane Stracener of Kennett, Mo., was 15 in 2014 when he married his girlfriend, Christy, who was 17 and pregnant. The couple now have 2-year-old Isaac Lee (left) and 3-year-old Faith Renee.

In front of him, ready for sentencing, Keith Strawn - a father, 6-foot-3 with black-framed glasses the color of his boyish haircut - stood sad and penitent.

Strawn thought he had been doing right by his 15-year-old daughter, Heather, only to realize too late what a massive mistake he had made bringing her to Missouri - the easiest place in America for a 15-year-old to wed.

Good grief people, the Bible is a book of folklore and has some good lessons in it but get ahold of yourselves.

Has the "guess which race" troll been reached for comment? Oh, wait a minute - never mind.

I hate that troll

Article about the teens marrying.