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Jilly_in_VA

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Sun Jan 2, 2022, 01:37 PM Jan 2022

She Was a Child Bride. He Still Shares Custody of Their Kid

Last year, Ash Pereira called the police in her hometown of Enterprise, Alabama, to report a rape.

The date of the alleged crime was nearly 15 years earlier; the accused, her now ex-husband, Jason Greathouse. Pereira, now 30, was locked in a bitter custody dispute with the man, a former youth pastor who impregnated her when she was 15 and he was 25.

What ensued was shocking to Pereira and many observers: Her ex was allowed to plead to a misdemeanor, did not have to register as a sex offender, and maintains partial custody of their 14-year-old daughter.

Pereira, meanwhile, had to defend herself against accusations that she was an unfit mother and that she was using the statutory rape accusation as a cudgel to get Greathouse to give up his child.

The battle has now pitted mother against daughter, with Pereira claiming her mother was the driving force behind her childhood marriage and her mother claiming Pereira is simply out for blood.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/ash-pereira-was-a-child-bride-why-does-her-ex-still-share-custody-of-their-child?ref=home

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She Was a Child Bride. He Still Shares Custody of Their Kid (Original Post) Jilly_in_VA Jan 2022 OP
'Out for blood'...? Works for me. cbabe Jan 2022 #1
Lots of Family Dynamics going on. multigraincracker Jan 2022 #2
Former youth pastor protected by his church? keithbvadu2 Jan 2022 #3
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