There’s a case that’s troubling to me, and I’m sure others who feel the same way I do. A couple from Nebraska moved to Kansas to get married when it was learned that the female half of the relationship was pregnant. Why is this news? He was 22, she was 13. Nebraska has now filed charges against him for statutory rape, since obviously they did ‘the deed’, so to speak. If it is okay in one state to get married, why can another state not recognize that marriage without interfering? Yes, I know it’s illegal for someone that old and someone that young to “be together”, and I’m not sure if she has the emotional intelligence to know what she was doing or is getting into, but I think that’s up to the courts and shrinks to decide. With all the talk lately about the sanctity of marriage, I’d like to see some substance before style. The bride’s mother consented to the marriage. Yes, they messed up, but, they’re trying to provide a two-parent household to a child to give it a fighting chance. The father can’t much do that from behind bars.
Government, stop breaking up families, please. Put your money where your mouth is.
On the contrary, I myself have been researching this subject for a business law class… and yes the fact that the two got married would make the Statutory Rape void… What I have discovered is that yes he should be convicted of this action because it was committed BEFORE they were married…. Therefore it is not voided….
Of course it isn’t voided, I know that.
They can also decide whether or not to pursue the charges, they’re making a go of it. It was wrong, but do 2 wrongs make a right?
I don’t know.
I’d err toward no, but I’m a pacifist.