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GREENFIELD, Calif. (AP) -- Police have arrested a Greenfield man for allegedly arranging to sell his 14-year-old daughter into marriage in exchange for $16,000, 100 cases of beer and several cases of meat.

Police said they only learned of the deal after the 36-year-old man went to them to get his daughter back because payment wasn't made as promised. The man was arrested Sunday on suspicion of human trafficking.

Officers also arrested an 18-year-old man on suspicion of statutory rape. Investigators believe the girl went willingly with the man, but she's under California's legal age of consent and can't legally marry.

Police say arranged marriages involving underage girls have become a problem in this small Central Coast farming community.

Originally posted by poet1b
reply to post by sadchild01

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The U.S. has no moral values? We don't punish women for getting raped. We don't allow marriage of 8 year old girls to adult men. You should cut back on your visits to the opium den.

We don't punish women for getting raped.

We don't allow marriage of 8 year old girls to adult men.

You should cut back on your visits to the opium den.

..and your source is?

PREVALENCE:
1 our of 4 women will be sexually assaulted in her lifetime. (1)

In the U.S., it is estimated that a woman is raped every eighty seconds. (2)

One out of twelve male students surveyed had committed acts that met the legal definition of rape or attempted rape. (1)

Between 1995 and 1996, more than 670,000 women were the victim of rape, (3)
www-rohan.sdsu.edu...

What happens between consenting adults is incredibly different to what an adult does to a child.