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Florida girl forced to be a 'bride' at 13
FORT MYERS - Last summer, a soft-spoken young woman came to lawyer Toni Latino for help. The father of her 5-year-old daughter had filed for custody rights. She wanted to fight it.
Legal pad before her, Latino began asking the questions standard of new clients as they sat together in her cozy Fort Myers office. Name. Age. Date of birth.
Latino soon realized this case was far from typical.
The woman, then 20, was 14 when she gave birth.
"The father," Latino asked. "How old is he?"
Read more: http://www.heraldtribune.com/news/20170204/florida-girl-forced-to-be-bride-at-13
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I read the article at the link and I don't doubt it is true but I'm asking myself how
could this happen. The couple lived in the girl's house, with her parents, for six
years. She kept attending public school while raising the baby. And no one saw
any reason to intervene here. If there were any reports of marijuana possession
at this residence the law would have been all over the place.
but smoking marijuana is a crime. 