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    VodkaRocks&aPieceofToastStassa Edwards
    5/31/16 6:36pm

    We are so overdue for a plague

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      MadPiglet loves West HamVodkaRocks&aPieceofToast
      5/31/16 6:39pm

      Or a meteor. I’m not super-picky.

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      The Ghost of ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ AKA BabyStepsVodkaRocks&aPieceofToast
      5/31/16 6:40pm

      The culling can’t come fast enough.

      GIF
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    MelissamacheteStassa Edwards
    5/31/16 6:55pm

    Can someone explain to me how getting married after after committing the sin somehow makes up for it? You make a mistake when you're 14 and then are saddled with a rapist for a husband for the rest of your life? Yes, that is what a loving god would want to happen. Makes sense.

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      thundercatsaregoMelissamachete
      5/31/16 7:10pm

      I sort of think that in this day and age it’s more about saving face in church (which is still disgusting). Some people carry around a surprising amount of baggage about that stuff. My (pretty chill) mother did a bunch of hand-wringing when my sister moved in with her longtime boyfriend two years ago because “what will people think?”—as if anyone still cares about “living in sin.” And even if some busybody does care, what is it to you? But I’m constantly amazed at the amount to which people will do this sort of shit just to keep up appearances.

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      janejaxMelissamachete
      5/31/16 7:14pm

      The Bible.

      That’s all the explanation you need.

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    mocenaStassa Edwards
    5/31/16 6:40pm

    When I was in high school, a girl in my freshman gym class was married. Apparently her mother had found out that she was sleeping with some 20something dude the summer before high school started and insisted that they get married or she’d have him arrested. The girl seemed cool with it at the time, and we were all in awe of her maturity and experience but in retrospect, my heart breaks for that girl. I wish someone had arrested her mother and her husband for what they did.

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      Spargermocena
      5/31/16 6:50pm

      When I was in 10th grade, one of my classmates dropped out to get married. I ran into her more than 20 years later. She was divorced, with a few kids of her own. She said she wished someone could’ve talked her out of that nonsense. Her mother had to sign for her to marry that idiot.

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      lallalalalmocena
      5/31/16 6:51pm

      Eww, same thing happened with this girl on my soccer team in middle school. She got pregnant at 12, her parents sent her to her village in Mexico, where she married the guy that got her pregnant. I think he was 27 and she never came back.

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    iElvis is Now Funded by Peter ThielStassa Edwards
    5/31/16 6:43pm

    So, some POS seduces your 14-year-old daughter and gets her pregnant. How does getting her married make this okay or somehow undo what happened?

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      nopenotathingiElvis is Now Funded by Peter Thiel
      5/31/16 6:49pm

      “Seduces” isn’t an appropriate term to use to describe child molestation.

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      FriedneckbonesiElvis is Now Funded by Peter Thiel
      5/31/16 6:52pm

      I’m going to venture that it’s a respectability issue. The daughter became pregnant and she didn’t want to abort; so instead of prosecuting the perpetrator, the father would have the daughter at least be married and pregnant, which would be the “respectable” thing to do. I don’t know, I’m grasping for anything that resembles sanity here.

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    JujyMonkey: Clever tagline goes hereStassa Edwards
    5/31/16 6:37pm

    While kudos to the Judge, was there no charge that could be filed that would warrant a longer sentence than 120 days?

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      HepcattyJujyMonkey: Clever tagline goes here
      5/31/16 6:45pm

      Well, he did transport a minor across state lines for the purposes of rape-related marriage. I’m amazed they didn’t go with human trafficking charges.

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      DashleyinCaliHepcatty
      5/31/16 6:57pm

      Maybe there are federal charges in his future?

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    TrumpsTinyHandsStassa Edwards
    5/31/16 6:43pm

    If every detail of this story makes you sick to your stomach, let’s pool our resources and build a spaceship to another planet. Downside: we might all die a horrible freezing death in the void of space or blow up on the launching pad. Upside: no more of this shit.

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      MsMymlanTrumpsTinyHands
      5/31/16 6:50pm

      How about a house boat in international territory?

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      Lizabethie: of the New WorldMsMymlan
      5/31/16 6:55pm

      OOhh, we’re getting close to Peter Thiel territory there, though. Lets go with the spaceship or a plague.

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    cockblocktopusStassa Edwards
    5/31/16 6:33pm

    Wait wait wait but I think you’re hiding the silver lining of this news story here... the man was also sentenced to jail time? For rape? For 15 years? I mean, that’s something.

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      thundercatsaregocockblocktopus
      5/31/16 7:04pm

      What do you want to bet that at his first parole hearing in three years (or less), he tells them that he should totally be free to go because he didn’t really do anything wrong—after all, the girl’s father consented to the marriage. He couldn’t possibly be a rapist if Dad was OK with it all. This is all just a misunderstanding, really.

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      MotherOfUnicorns will only call Trump Cheeto Jesuscockblocktopus
      5/31/16 9:41pm

      He's eligible for parole in 3 years though.

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    AP BearStassa Edwards
    5/31/16 7:03pm

    OK, so how can we get this issue before Congress. if their is a standard voting age, drinking age, how can we not have a standard age for marriage in this country? Also this makes us total hippocrates when we press other countries particularly those in the Middle East, Asia and Africa to outlaw child marriage. Wonky Jazzers whats the best course of action? I am afraid its to late for one of those Obama petitions..

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      shelwoodAP Bear
      5/31/16 7:25pm

      The voting thing is set federally, but the drinking age is actually done on a state-by-state basis. There used to be various ages, between 18-21.. Then, in the 80s, Reagan decided to accede to MADD, and told states they had to raise their drinking ages to 21 by a certain date (I think it was some time in 1983 or 84) or lose all their federal highway funding until they did. Wisconsin held out the longest, and almost decided to forgo the money, but eventually caved. So, I guess if we want a nation-wide age of consent for marriage/sex/etc, there would have to be some federal extortion again.

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      Flyin_BryanAP Bear
      5/31/16 7:29pm

      There needs to be a standard age of consent too. In some places an 18-year old and a 17-year old can be considered statutory rape. In other places a 25-year old and a 15-year old is legal.

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    MotherOfUnicorns will only call Trump Cheeto JesusStassa Edwards
    5/31/16 9:50pm

    My friend and I were just talking about what we would do if our respective daughters ever got pregnant as teens/young adults. My husband and I would most definitely suggest an abortion for our daughter, we’ve already talked about it and we figure she’ll get an IUD or arm implant when she starts having sex. My friend and her fiancé are so anti-abortion that she said she would raise the baby for her. I just about died. Hell fucking no. I thought her answer wasn’t very good but this is 1000000000x worse.

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      TampaBeeAtch (misplaced witty subname)MotherOfUnicorns will only call Trump Cheeto Jesus
      6/03/16 7:48pm

      I love you for this. As an adopted kid, it wasn’t until I was 30 that I found out that my birth mom’s crazy Catholic father insisted she give birth and that they would pass me off as their ‘change of life’ baby. I love my bio Mom, and I know she loved her Dad, but even her tellings of him make my blood run cold about what a near miss I had in the gamble of life.

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      MotherOfUnicorns will only call Trump Cheeto JesusTampaBeeAtch (misplaced witty subname)
      6/03/16 8:41pm

      Haha thanks! Part of me not wanting to raise a potential grand baby is pure selfishness. I prefer that my daughter just not get pregnant accidentally so we never have to worry about it.

      It definitely sounds like you dodged a bullet by not having your bio grandpa raise you as his own.

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    SqarrStassa Edwards
    5/31/16 6:56pm

    “You break it, you bought it” in its most literal interpretation.

    Wow.

    Such biblical.

    Much bullshit.

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      DonnaLSqarr
      5/31/16 9:31pm

      I guess it was better than the alternative — stoning the victim to death.

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      SqarrDonnaL
      5/31/16 9:51pm

      Of course, there’s that too.

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