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What parent would pimp a 14-year-old's hand in marriage online?
  • Don't we wish it was over ...

    While that web site might think it's a joke - the problem is real enough - even in the US, where this testimony was heard this week in a Utah court:

    ST. GEORGE - Jane Doe felt so "dirty and used" after having sex the first time with her husband she retreated to a bathroom, curled up on the floor and bawled.

    "I felt like a horrible person," she said. "I didn't understand why he had done what he had just done."

    Doe, who was then 14, had been married to her 19-year-old cousin earlier by polygamous sect leader Warren S. Jeffs. She put off her husband's sexual advances for weeks.

    http://www.sltrib.com/ci_6902425

    Got any ideas on how to actually turn that around ? It's been going on for quite some time there, and not only with these 'FLDS' members.

    BTW, Jeffs defense is that the 'husband' didn't follow the sect's 'teachings'.