“60,000 marriages since 2000 occurred at an age or spousal age difference that should have been considered a sex crime
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In about 88% of those marriages, the marriage license became a “get out of jail free” card for a would-be rapist under state law that specifically allowed within marriage what would otherwise be considered statutory rape.
In the other 12% of those marriages, the state sent a child home to be raped. The marriage was legal under state law, but sex within the marriage was a crime.”
The United States has a child marriage problem - but a simple solution is available. Nearly 300,000 minors, under age 18, were legally married in the U.S. between 2000 and 2018, this study found.
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